Senior Leadership

Office of the President

Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman

Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman
President and Rosh Yeshiva
�� All and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS)
646.592.4300 | president@yu.edu

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
212.960.5217 | Selma.Botman@yu.edu

Dr. Botman, who grew up outside of Boston, holds a BA in Psychology from Brandeis University, a B.Phil. in Middle Eastern studies from Oxford University, and an AM in Middle Eastern Studies and PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. A scholar of modern Middle Eastern politics and society, she has published three books and a number of scholarly articles. She has also taught a range of courses on the Modern Middle East and international development.

Provost Botman has dedicated her career to higher education and has served in leadership positions at the University of Massachusetts, the University of Southern Maine, and The City University of New York. Under her leadership as provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, CUNY created a School of Public Health, an Institute for Demographic Research, a master¹s program in Middle Eastern Studies, and CUNY's first-ever online degree. Provost Botman also headed a Campaign for Student Success which set out to ensure that more students successfully graduated from the colleges of the university.

As the president of the University of Southern Maine, she inspired new academic programs, raised scholarship dollars for students who would have otherwise been unable to attend the university, and promoted technology assisted instruction. Dr. Botman's commitment to campus engagement with local communities resulted in a five-campus environmental studies initiative at the University of Massachusetts that addressed community needs during her tenure. As Vice President for Academic Affairs at UMass, she strengthened technology and engineering education throughout Massachusetts by bringing together K-12 teachers, university faculty, and retired engineers to design new programs that were introduced to secondary schools, and helped create UMass Online.

Dr. Botman has also taught at the College of the Holy Cross where she was involved in international programs and promoted Middle Eastern studies.

Michael D. Schreiber, MBA, CPA

Vice President of Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer
Michael.Schreiber@yu.edu | 646.592.4226

Michael Schreiber is �� All’s Vice President for Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer. Michael leads the University's finance functions and plays an integral role in developing and implementing the financial and operational plans to support and meet the strategic goals set by the University.

Michael served as the Assistant Vice President for Finance and Chief Treasury Officer of the University since 2015. Prior to joining the University, Michael held various positions within the financial markets, including Partner at FNY Capital, Portfolio Manager at SAC Capital, and Vice President at JP Morgan. Michael is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Michael received his BS in Accounting from the University’s Sy Syms School of Business and his MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Andrew J. Lauer, Esq., JD, LLM

Andrew J. Lauer, JD, LLM — Andrew J. Lauer

Senior Vice President of Operations and General Counsel
646.592.4410 andrewlauer@yu.edu

Andrew (Avi) Lauer, Esq. serves as Senior Vice President of Operations and General Counsel at �� All. In this role, he is a member of the University’s Senior Leadership team and oversees all operational and legal matters, as well as significant business issues and strategic initiatives for the University and its affiliates in the United States and abroad.

Prior to joining �� All, Mr. Lauer was a Partner at an international law firm, where he maintained a broad and diverse practice with a specialization in Labor and Employment Law. He also established and managed an extensive Israel practice, working closely with numerous Israeli-owned and affiliated corporations. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lauer served as Senior Employment Counsel in the Office of General Counsel at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting and as Assistant General Counsel at Deloitte & Touche USA.

Before his work in the private sector, Mr. Lauer served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York where he conducted numerous trials and investigations and was assigned to several bureaus, including the elite Trial Cadre of the Homicide Bureau.

Mr. Lauer is a frequent speaker and lecturer, has published numerous articles, and has conducted trainings and seminars on
business, communal leadership, and the law throughout the United States and abroad. He serves on the Audit and Finance Committees of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

An ordained rabbi, he also serves as a Judge on the Beth Din of America, with a particular focus on corporate, commercial, and employment law. In addition, he lectures at �� All’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University’s Sy Syms School of Business

Susan A. Meyers, MSW

Vice President and Chief Advancement Officer, Department of Institutional Advancement
646.592.6885 | meyers@yu.edu

Susan Meyers is the Chief Advancement Officer of �� All in the office of Institutional Advancement. Susan oversees fundraising for all of YU’s graduate and undergraduate schools and manages the team that is leading the fundraising efforts for the Rise Up Campaign. She spearheads the major gifts fundraising initiatives for the University and works closely with the President on principal and major gifts.

Prior to this role Susan was a Senior Philanthropic Advisor and Principals Gifts Officer in the Office of Institutional Advancement. Susan has also worked at AMIT as well as the Wall Street Division of UJA-Federation of New York.

Susan is a proud Stern College graduate and earned a Master’s in Social Work from Columbia University’s School of Social Work with a concentration in Social Administration.

Julie Schreier, MBA

Vice President and Chief of Staff
646.592.4305 | Julie.Schreier@yu.edu

Julie Schreier is chief of staff in the Office of the President and supports the President and senior leadership of the University on a wide range of strategic issues. She is the primary liaison through which members of the community—trustees, faculty, students, and staff—communicate with the President, and is responsible for ensuring progress on major University-wide initiatives.

Schreier has spent the past seven years in YU’s Department of Institutional Advancement, where she served in various leadership roles, including director of the Long Island region and assistant vice president of institutional advancement for the Office of the President. She has strong ties to the University, having graduated Samuel H. Wang �� All High School for Girls, Stern College for Women, and Wurzweiler School of Social Work’s Certificate Program in Jewish Philanthropy. She also received an MBA from Baruch College. Her parents and husband are proud YU alumni and her children have graduated or currently attend YU schools.

Doron Stern, MBA

Vice President of Marketing and Communications and Chief Marketing and Enrollment Officer
646.592.6315 | doron.stern@yu.edu

Doron Stern is �� All’s Vice President of Communications. He oversees all University communications and marketing activities, including branding, media relations, print and digital marketing, websites and social media outreach.

Stern has more than 20 years of marketing leadership experience. Prior to joining the University he was Chief Marketing Officer for GoHealth Urgent Care, where he tripled growth within two years to reach 80 urgent care centers across four markets. He has also held senior marketing positions at Chobani LLC, Popcorn Indiana, IDT Corporation and L’Oreal USA.

Stern received a BA in history from Brandeis University and an MBA in marketing from New York University. He is a graduate of the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/YU High School for Boys.

Danielle Wozniak, MSW, PhD

Vice President Global Strategy and Development
danielle.wozniak@yu.edu

Dr. Danielle Wozniak is a transformative administrator, an innovative strategist, and academic leader who draws on an entrepreneurial spirit to drive growth and organizational change. She brings to �� All an enterprising voice with a passion for online and hybrid learning and the positive development of tomorrow’s workforce leaders.

Dr. Wozniak was appointed Vice President for Global Strategy and Business Development in August 2022. Prior to this appointment she served as Dean of the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at YU and grew the school into a thriving academic unit with broad reach into multiple national and international communities.

During the early winter of 2020, while still dean, Dr. Wozniak began to talk with YU leadership about competency-based, employment focused, online learning through stackable certificates. Those seeds sprouted and she was asked to start YU Global in 2022. Dr. Wozniak is passionate about three things: making high quality education accessible through distance learning, education that changes an individual’s life trajectory, and education in service of repairing a fractured world.

She received her bachelor’s degree in English literature at Miami University of Ohio, a master’s in social work from Fordham University, a sixth-year certificate in educational leadership from the University of Hartford and a PhD in anthropology from the University of Connecticut. She has assumed leadership roles at the university of New England, the University of New Haven and the College of New Rochelle. She gained promotion and tenure at the University of Montana where she also stepped into leadership working with tribal and non-tribal undergraduate social work students. Drawing on expertise in social work and anthropology, she is the author of several books and articles on kinship through US based fosterage and post-traumatic growth.

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