Upcoming Enterprise Circle Events

On Thursday, March 25, the Enterprise Circle will gather at the Temple Beth El Brown Religious School at 601 N. Parham Road at 7:30 a.m.

The speakers will be Ronen Zohar, chief executive officer, and Meiky Tollman, executive vice president  and general manager of Sabra Dipping Company. Sabra recently relocated its manufacturing facilities to Chesterfield County. Join the group to learn about their corporation and why they chose to relocate to Central Virginia.
Sabra is the leading manufacturer of authentic Mediterranean-style refrigerated dips and spreads. This award winning company distributes its tasty, fresh and indulgent spreads and dips nationwide, which include hummus, eggplant dips, babaganoush spreads, and Mediterranean salsa. The products are available in individual and family packs. Sabra Dipping Company is a 50/50 joint venture partnership owned by PepsiCo and the Strauss Group.
Zohar joined Sabra in September 2007.  Prior to joining the company, he worked for the Strauss-Elite Group as the production manager in the Sweet Factory. He also held a number of managerial and executive positions within the company, including chief executive officer of the Salty JV business with PepsiCo and chief executive of dairy business.

Tollman is graduate of the Israeli Air Force Academy and served 20 years in the Israeli Air force as a jet and helicopter pilot (13 of them in the reserve forces). Prior to joining Sabra in 2005, he served as CEO of Tollman's Ltd., the leading household furniture, tableware and gifts retailer in Israel, where he developed strong management and organizational expertise. At Sabra, Tollman served as CEO from 2005-06 and as a general manager/executive vice president from 2007-08.  Tollman was a leading force in the team that expanded Sabra's presence in the consumer marketplace, earning industry awards and establishing its position as the leading provider of Mediterranean dips and spreads in North America.

Enterprise Circle in June
On Thursday, June 3 at 7:30 a.m. Enterprise Circle will once again welcome Jeff Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Lacker spoke to the Enterprise Circle in May 2007. Lacker will speak at the new MeadWestvaco offices in Downtown Richmond. Lacker became president on Aug. 1, 2004, as the seventh chief executive of the Fifth District Federal Reserve Bank. Lacker's full term began in March 2006 and he began serving as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee in 2009.
A native of Kentucky, he received a BA in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College. Following graduation, he joined Wharton Econometrics in Philadelphia, and later received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin. Lacker was an assistant professor of Economics at the Krannert
School of Management, Purdue University, from 1984 to 1989, prior to joining the Bank in 1989 as an economist in the banking area of the Research
Department. 

The Enterprise Circle is an affinity group designed to create both networking and life-long learning opportunities for new and established business professionals in our community and is generously sponsored by John B. Levy & Company, Inc. and The Jewish Community Federation of Richmond.
For more information, call Matt Langsam at 545-8652 or e-mail mlangsam@jewishrichmond.org.