Barry Finestone is President and CEO of the Jim Joseph Foundation, which has granted over $940 million in its first 20 years. A Glasgow native with 34 years in the Jewish nonprofit world, Barry previously led the Lisa and John Pritzker Family Fund and the JCC of San Francisco. His career directing a summer camp, where he “never would have hired himself”—but the lessons stuck.
Barry has a love for the Jewish people and football ( the real kind) and lives in the Bay Area with his wife Ellen and their three grown children.