Prizmah of Canada Board of Directors

Joel Segal has served on the board of Prizmah for six years and is now currently serving on the board of Prizmah of Canada. He has served as Vice Chair and Co-chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. Prior to Prizmah, he served for 10 years on the board of Akiva, the Jewish day school his three boys attended. Joel was a co-founder of the “Generations Fund”, a community initiative to increase excellence and improve middle-income affordability in Montreal Jewish Day schools and summer camps. He has served as board chair of the Federation CJA, Montreal Jewish Community Foundation ,and the Segal Center for Performing Arts. In addition, he has served on the board of the Jewish General Hospital and Congregation Dorshei Emet, Montreal’s Reconstructionist Synagogue. Joel was the 2016 Federation CJA Campaign Chair. Since 2000, Joel has run his family’s investment company. Before that, he served as president of Peerless Clothing, a privately held men’s tailored clothing business. Joel lives in Montreal with his wife, Eileen.

Joseph (“Joey”) Steiner, now retired, was a partner in the Litigation Department at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, a major Canadian law firm with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, and New York. Based in the firm’s Toronto office, his practice was in general commercial litigation with an emphasis on tax litigation.

Joey’s career in volunteer Jewish community service has primarily revolved around Jewish education. He was, for many years, a member of the board of Bialik Hebrew Day School (and served as its president for four years in the early 1990s). He has also served as a board member of Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School. Previously, Joey was on the Board of Hillel of Greater Toronto.

Joey currently serves on the board of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Canada and on the consolidated board of that Institute, which is based in Jerusalem and New York. He is on the board of Prizmah of Canada. He is also on the board of New Israel Fund of Canada of which he is the treasurer and chair of the finance committee.

Paul is founding chief executive officer of US based Prizmah, building on his lifelong connection with Jewish day school education and wide-ranging management experience in the fields of education, philanthropy, social impact, government and new media. Prior to joining Prizmah, Paul served as CEO of The Pershing Square Foundation, a private family foundation, and as the Global Managing Director of Absolute Return for Kids (ARK), a nonprofit focused on global health, education and child protection. The preceding years of Paul’s career focused on government, telecoms, and new media. He has also served on the boards of various nonprofits in the UK and the US. Paul holds an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.