We are grateful to Andrés Spokoiny for sharing his insights with us. Please enjoy the conversation recording.
Andrés Spokoiny, CEO of the Jewish Funders Network, is a longtime Jewish communal leader with a history of leading successful organizational transformations. He served as the CEO of Federation CJA in Montreal and, prior to that, for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Community (JDC) in Paris. As Regional Director for Northeast Europe, he was responsible for a number of pan-European projects.
Before his Jewish communal work, Andrés worked for IBM and was responsible for training, development, hiring, and recruitment for IBM’s Latin America Southern Region during a period of major restructuring. Originally from Argentina, Andrés has a multidisciplinary academic background including business, education, and rabbinical studies in different institutions around the world. He is fluent in Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Yiddish, and is proficient in Russian. He’s the author of the novel El Impio (Penguin, Random House – Mexico) and a non-fiction book, Tradition and Transition: Jewish Communities and the Hyper Empowered Individual (Gefen Publishing).