Simon Hochhauser – Past President, United Synagogue - Pelorous

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.