2016 Alumni Honorees Each year, Poly Prep’s Board of Governors honors alumni on Special Reunion Day to recognize outstanding graduates from across disciplines for their exceptional personal and professional achievements and contributions to society. Congratulations to our 2016 Alumni Award honorees.
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Daniel Pollack ’65 is recognized as one of the preeminent trial lawyers in the country. Pollack received a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College; an M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Univer sity of Oxford; and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. Along with heading his own boutique law firm, Pollack & Kaminsky, he served as Managing Partner of McCarter & English’s New York office from 2012 to 2015, and he is now Managing Partner Emeritus. Early in 2016, he succeeded in effecting a $4 billion settlement of the 15year litigation between Argentina and its lead “holdout bondholders.”
Ira Bleiweiss ’76 is an internationally recognized specialist in anatomic pathology. In addition to having been affiliated with multiple hospitals in the New York area, including Mount Sinai and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, he is now a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written and published over 100 articles and collaborated in clinical research studies around the world. In 2015, Newsweek listed Dr. Bleiweis as one of the Top Cancer Doctors in the U.S.
Stephen Brandman ’81 is the co-owner and founder of Sixty Hotels. Brandman has been in the hotel business for close to 30 years. In 2011, Brandman was one of the founders, owners, and the CEO of Commune Hotels, which owned and operated Thompson Hotels and Joie de Vivre. The portfolio consisted of approximately 50 hotels with revenues in excess of $450 million. Currently, Brandman oversees a portfolio of hotels in Miami Beach, Los Angeles, and Montreal, and he is also heading a new lifestyle hotel brand called Eaton Hotels, which he will soon be opening in Washington, D.C, San Francisco, and Hong Kong.
Loretta Ippolito ’81 is a partner at the Paul Weiss law firm, where she is a co-chair of the Personal Representative Department in New York. Ippolito’s practice involves all aspects of estate planning and estate and trust administration. Ippolito attended Amherst College, where she received her B.A. in mathematics in 1985. In 1989, she graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School. She currently serves as co-chair of the Committee on Trusts & Estates of the New York Women’s Bar Association. In 2012, Ippolito received the Up and Coming Wealth Management Lawyer of the Year Award from Chambers USA.
Robin Bramwell-Stewart ’86, P ’16 serves as Manager of Business Planning of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where she is the leader of major strategic planning for the largest port on the U.S. East Coast and the third largest in the nation. Prior to joining the Port Department in March 2011, Bramwell-Stewart was a Senior Program Manager in the Office of Strategic Initiatives. She is a graduate of Howard University and Brooklyn Law School, and she has long been active on the boards of educational institutions. She previously served on Poly’s Board of Governors, has been a trustee since 2008, and is a parent to Dante, Class of ’16.
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