JCA announces new chief executive
JCA’S next CEO says he feels “an awesome sense of responsibility” in taking on the role.
JCA’S next CEO says he feels “an awesome sense of responsibility” in taking on the role.
The organisation this week announced lawyer and businessman Daniel Grynberg (pictured) as the replacement for Ian Sandler, who announced his retirement in August after eight years in the role.
The two will work together for a month before Sandler officially hands over the reins at the end of December.
“I feel very honoured and privileged to be given this very serious responsibility,” Grynberg told The AJN.
“Our community is a wonderful community and JCA is an amazing institution which has really served our community for nearly half a century. And I feel really an awesome sense of responsibility to shepherd it into the next phase.”
Grynberg, who graduated from Moriah College in 1987, worked for 11 years as the general and corporate counsel at Meriton, working closely with Harry Triguboff, and was until recently the CEO of Modular Hotels.
He has also held a range of communal positions, serving on the boards of the Shalom Institute and Hakoah Club and on the Emanuel Synagogue Building Committee.
He said his community involvement and his business experience would serve him well in the position.
“I’ve seen the kind of attention to detail and focus that’s required to run a significant organisation and so I hope to be able to apply those skills to this role,” he said.
He was also full of praise for his predecessor Sandler.
“I can’t speak highly enough of Ian’s role over the past nine years,” he said.
“I’m being handed an organisation which is in fantastic shape. I think Ian has done a fantastic job and I think our community owes him an enormous debt of gratitude.”
Grynberg was selected by a committee comprising Jillian Segal AM, Stephen Chipkin and JCA president Peter Philippsohn.
“In Daniel’s application for the role of CEO, he wrote ‘I am part of this community and it is part of me, and I am ready, willing and able to take a leadership role in it’,” Philippsohn said. “With this attitude and the community and JCA’s existing solid foundations, the future of JCA is in safe hands.”
GARETH NARUNSKY
Incoming JCA CEO Daniel Grynberg.
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