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Russell Kett - Vice President, United Synagogue Russell Kett is a Vice President of the United Synagogue, having been elected in July 2011. He lives in Canons Park, Edgware and has been a member of Belmont Synagogue since 1984, and previously of Pinner. He is a past Warden of Belmont and was a member of its Board of Management for many years, introducing the shul to strategic planning even before the Kalms report was produced. Russell is a former governor of JFS School and served as chairman of governors from 2003 to 2009. He is an advisory board member of the Jewish Volunteering Network and a trustee of the British Friends of Reuth, which raises funds for the Reuth rehabilitation hospital in Tel Aviv. A keen singer, Russell is a member and past chairman of the Shabbaton Choir, and also sings with the Belmont shul choir (under the baton of the United Synagogue’s moonlighting Chief Executive, Jeremy Jacobs). After hotel school and having worked for a leading international hotel company, he became a hotel consultant in 1977, spending 10 and 7 years respectively with the specialist hotel consultancy divisions of accountants Stoy Hayward (now BDO) and Deloitte, before joining his current firm, HVS, in 1995 where he is managing director of the London office and serves on the firm’s global board. Naomi Landy - Women Representative, United Synagogue Naomi was elected as a Women’s Representative to the US Trustees in July 2011. She served on the Board of Management of Hendon Synagogue for fifteen years. From 2004 – 2010 she was Vice Chair, which included a period as Acting Chair. Naomi has been involved in the recruitment of the two Associate Rabbis appointed to Hendon. Naomi is a qualified solicitor, having studied Law at LSE and obtaining a Masters degree in Law from UCL. The Home Office appointed her to act as both an Appropriate Adult and a Lay Visitor in police stations in the borough of Barnet. Since 2000 Naomi has worked as the Admissions Officer and Administrator of North West London Jewish Day School. Sheis also a Governor of the school, a member of the Leadership Team and has been involved in the recruitment of the Head Teacher, Deputy Head and many staff. In her spare time Naomi sits on Admission Appeals Panels for schools in the boroughs of Barnet and Brent and also for Jewish Voluntary Aided schools. Naomi is married to David, son of the late Rabbi Maurice Landy and they have three children. Anna, a solicitor, Rebecca, who is finishing a Ph.D in Statistics and Josh who works in sports broadcasting.
Stephen Pack – President of Chief Rabbinate Trust and United Synagogue Stephen is the President of the United Synagogue, having been elected in July 2011. Family: Stephen grew up in Cockfosters in North London where his parents were founding members of the Shul. In 1973, he married Cheryl Klyne who lived in Hampstead Garden Suburb. They met at Manchester University where they both spent four years. They moved to Hadley Wood in 1977 where they still reside. The couple have two adult children – Susannah Jacobs who lives in Muswell Hill with her husband Yoni and two children – Mazhira and Arye, and Anthony who lives in West Hampstead. Communal life: Stephen has been a Trustee of the United Synagogue for nine years, six as a Treasurer and three as Vice President. During that time he had been Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and was closely involved with the Religious Affairs Group, US Schools, Peir, new communities and many matters involving individual Rabbis and shuls. He represents the US on the JLC committee dealing with Jewish Education and is also a Trustee of the Chief Rabbinate Trust where he is responsible for the financial side of the Charity. As Life President of the Hadley Wood Jewish Community together with Cheryl, they have been responsible for nurturing the community from its early days when it met in the Pack household to it current state where it is expanding rapidly. Stephen regularly leads the davenning and was appointed an Elder of the Community in 2010. Stephen was Chairman of the Cockfosters shul for several years and prior to that was its Financial Representative. Outside of the Jewish sphere, he was President of the Hadley Wood Association for over 10 years. Professional life: Stephen has a Masters Degree in Business Finance from Manchester University and Manchester Business School and a Bachelors degree in Economics and Accounting. He joined Price Waterhouse (now PwC), qualified as a Chartered Accountant and became a partner in 1984. He initially specialised in audit and was responsible for two of the firm’s largest FTSE 100 clients. He was appointed director in charge of operations for the audit practice and London office. Some years later Stephen helped to establish a new global business process outsourcing division and following the sale of that business moved into management consulting. In that role he led many transformation programmes for large clients helping them to achieve their strategic objectives. Stephen was appointed Head of Risk and Quality for the UK firm (which by then was the largest professional services firm in the UK) and led a team of 180 professionals dealing with all aspects of risk, quality and compliance for PwC. Retiring from the firm last year, within a few months Stephen was headhunted by another major firm to assist them with their risk and quality organization and has just completed a consulting assignment for them.
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