Gary Palmucci
Film Curator and General Manager
After a 30+ year career in independent film acquisition and distribution, Gary segued into a new role as film curator and general manager of New Plaza Cinema’s various locations on the upper west side, and now its “virtual cinema.” Gary’s keen eye for film curation has been a significant contributor to the success and growth of NPC.
Guy-Max Delphin
Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Delphin Investments LLC
Guy-Max Delphin is founder and CEO of Delphin Investments (DI) and Chairman of DHFG (dba Quisqueya Capital Advisors “QCA”). He is responsible for strategic vision of the companies. Mr. Delphin is an experienced executive with a proven track record of organizing, recruiting and building companies. Currently, Mr. Delphin advises the CEOs of a few companies across economic sectors.
Susanne Szabo Rostock
Director/Editor
Long esteemed as “an aural and visual poet”, Susanne Rostock’s filmmaking is a stunning 40 years of some of the most compelling documentaries of each decade. Her most recent film as director / editor, Sing Your Song, about Harry Belafonte’s life as an artist and activist, was chosen to open the U.S. Documentary Competition section of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it was described as a story “told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style and musical panache”. This film continues to be in world wide theatrical distribution and television broadcast and has aired on HBO. Sing Your Song received top honors in festivals around the world, was shortlisted for an Oscar, and garnered the NAACP Image Award and a Gracie for Outstanding Director.
Claudine Bacher
Founding Chair of The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership
Claudine Bacher is the Founding Chair and Immediate Past Co-Chair of The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership. Her organization aims to promote and sustain Eleanor Roosevelt’s ideals as one of the world’s most courageous leaders for social justice so that future generations can be inspired through her example.
Wayne Kabak
CEO and owner of WSK Management, LLC
As a manager of television and radio personalities, authors, broadcast journalists and other notable public figures, his clients include Jane Pauley; former Secretaries of Defense Robert Gates and Ash Carter; Dr. Condoleezza Rice; composer, musician and educator Wynton Marsalis; Lou Dobbs; broadcaster and former Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow; acclaimed biographer Kitty Kelley; NPR’s Scott Simon; Shoshana Zuboff, author of the groundbreaking book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism;” noted investor and world traveler Jim Rogers; and renown businessman Sam Zell.