Jonathan Lack
Board Member & Interim Executive Director
Jonathan Lack is a serial entrepreneur and turnaround specialist focused on top line growth for bottom line results. Jonathan has been the President & COO of the Sally Forster Jones Group based in Los Angeles since July 2021 and a Strategic Planning & Marketing Advisor for the Carey Hagglund Condy Team based on Marin County since 2018. Jonathan has consulted with several real estate teams across the country helping them develop a strategic approach to running their practices. Jonathan has over 30 years of management and strategic planning experience in both consumer and business-to-business markets (e.g., start-ups, mid-size, and Fortune 500) in a variety of industries (e.g., financial services, food & beverage, information services, healthcare, Internet, manufacturing, real estate, retail, and telecom). Jonathan is the author of Plan to Turn Your Company Around in 90 days published by Apress and is currently work on a real estate book.
​Jonathan Lack grew up in Houston, Texas and currently commutes between Houston, The Bay Area, and Los Angeles. He late mother was a Holocaust survivor from Lithuania. Both his parents and paternal grandfather were active in the Houston Jewish Community and in their local synagogue Congregation Emanu El, a Reform synagogue established by his grandfather and other local Reform Zionists. Jonathan is one of six kids. He has a son Noah (24) who just competed in the Maccabiah 3x3 Men’s Basketball tournament (July 2022).
Jonathan is also trained in conflict resolution. He worked for two years with Interns for Peace, an Israeli-Palestinian cooperative project. Jonathan lived in Christian Nazareth, Israel studying Arabic (Fall 1985) and in Kfar Tira, a Muslim town in Israel (Winter 1985 – Summer 1987) where he worked with neighboring Jewish communities Ramat Ha Kovesh, Kfar Saba, Raanana on Jewish-Arab cooperative projects, primarily in education and sports.
Jonathan earned an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and a Master's in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) where he studied Arabic for a summer at Yarmouk University in Jordan (1989). He earned his BA from UC Berkeley in Middle East Studies during which time he interned at AIPAC’s Washington, DC office (Summer 1983). He also studied one year in the Tel-Aviv University Overseas Program (1981-1982).