ADVISORY COMMITTEE
THIS IS WHERE WE WILL TALK ABOUT OUR ADVISORS
Leland Hensch
Lead Investor
Joseph Charap
Vice President of Horticulture at The Green-Wood Cemetery
Atul Salhotra
President at Risk Assessment & Management (RAM) Group, Inc.
BS in Finance from The Kelley School at Indiana University
Leland began his career in 1992 with Hull Trading as an equity derivatives assistant trader on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. His first trading assignment was in Frankfurt, Germany office from ’94 to ’98 where he traded on the Deustche Terrmine Borse. Leland was promoted to office head for his final 2 years in Frankfurt.
Leland was hired by Goldman Sachs London in 2001 to head the UK Derivatives desk. In 2004, he relocated to New York to run Macro Derivatives. In 2009, Leland started Goldman’s Emerging Markets equity trading team in Sao Paulo and was later promoted to Head of Americas Equity trading in 2013. Leland was named partner in 2012 and retired in 2016.
Since leaving Goldman Sachs, Leland has made a number of investments across real estate, hospitality, media, and tech businesses. He has been an active investor/owner in the hospitality and media businesses in which he has provided capital. Leland sits on the investment board of The Foundry Mezzanine fund and is still active in equity market trading. He currently resides in Manhattan, NY with his wife, Kerrys, and 4 children -London, Eden, Jaelyn, and Drystan.
NYSUFC Board Member Joseph Charap is the Vice President of Horticulture and Curator for Green-Wood in Brooklyn. A board member of Metro Hort and graduate of NY Botanical Garden + Harvard University
A native New Yorker that grew up in Lower Manhattan. After a chance meeting with New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) Vice President Francisca Coelho in 2013, Joseph was accepted into NYBG’s School of Professional Horticulture. .
Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as one of the earliest “rural cemeteries.” It’s an accredited Level II Arboretum, occupying 478 acres in Brooklyn. We believe we will achieve Level III Accreditation within the next five years, as we continue to diversify our tree and shrub collection. [Level III arboreta have at least 500 species of woody plants, employ a collections curator, have substantial educational programming, collaborate with other arboreta, publicize their collections, and actively participate in tree science and conservation.
Dr. Atul M. Salhotra is an internationally recognized expert in the cost-effective management of contaminated sites. His expertise and opinions are sought after and trusted by regulators, industries, and the courts by virtue of his having developed risk based decision making programs for the management of chemically impacted sites for more than 15 states. He is the lead author, project manager, and developer of Risk- Based Corrective-Action (RBCA) Programs for numerous states, the U.S. Air Force in Europe (USAFE), and the Israel Ministry of the Environment. As one of the original 9 ASTM approved trainers for RBCA, he has conducted training courses in over 25 states and 10 countries. Over 6,000 individuals have attended his courses, and their careers have benefited from the training received.
He has provided litigation support, including testimony in courts, on numerous high-profile projects related to the migration of plumes under people’s homes, the allegation of adverse health effects due to vapor intrusion, and diminution of property values. Several of these projects involved public meetings, risk communication presentations, and media coverage.
Dr. Salhotra’s applied research work has involved the development and application of exposure and risk assessment methodologies for environmental decision making. These include contaminant fate and transport modeling, statistical analysis, monte-carlo simulation, data interpretation, and regulatory interaction and negotiations. Dr. Salhotra was responsible for the development of the EPACML (EPA’s Composite Model for Landfills), EPAMMM (EPA’s Multi-Med Model), APIDSS (American Petroleum Institute’s Decision Support System for Exposure and Risk Assessment), and USAFE DSS, and Vapor Cloud Model (VCM). These models and software are currently used across the nation to conduct risk assessments and to estimate site-specific clean-up levels.