Alan B. Slifka

Prior to founding Alan B. Slifka and Company, the predecessor firm of Halcyon Management Company LLC in 1982, Mr. Slifka was a partner of L.F.
Rothschild & Co., Inc. Long active in business, civic, and philanthropic affairs, he has served on several corporate boards including The Pall Corporation.
He has served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of GTS (Global TeleSystems Group, Inc.).
He is founding Chairman and member of the Board of Directors of the Big Apple Circus, a Director of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, a member of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Congress and a founding board member of The Coexistence Initiative and The Interfaith Center of New York.
Mr. Slifka is Chairman of The Abraham Fund, which he co-founded in 1989 as the first and only public not-for-profit organization whose sole purpose is to further coexistence between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens through support of programs and projects in Israel.
It is his belief that legitimization and enhancement of coexistence and coexistence programs between majority and minority, whether ethnic, tribal or religious, is currently the most essential yet under-supported need in the world.
Mr. Slifka graduated from the Fieldston School, received his B.S.
at Yale University in 1951 and his M.B.A. at Harvard in 1953, and in 2003 he received a Doctor of Human Letters, Honoris Causa at Brandeis University.
Mr. Slifka was born in New York City in 1929.