First Responders Children's Foundation supports the children & families of our first responder heroes who risk their lives every day in service to our communities.
Board of Directors
Jillian Crane is President & CEO of First Responders Children’s Foundation which has impacted hundreds of children of first responders killed or injured in the line of duty by awarding millions of dollars in scholarships and grants over 20 years. Ms. Crane is also a writer, actress, and producer.
As a screenwriter, Jillian adapted the novel, About Yvonne, into an erotic thriller optioned by New Regency. She adapted a best-selling humor book, Down, Boy, A Girl’s Guide to Housebreaking a Man for Chick Flicks. She wrote the television pilot, Scrapyard Barbie, for Gramnet and Paramount Television. Her play, High Ceilings, was part of the New Works Festival at the Ensemble Studio Theater and was subsequently produced at The Hayworth Theater in Los Angeles.
Film credits include Election, Great Kills Road, Hamlet, and Great New Wonderful. Television credits include Spinning Out on Netflix as well as The Practice, Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and Homicide. Theatre credits include leading roles at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Huntington Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre, and New York Theatre Workshop where she played the title role in The Duchess of Malfi. Jillian created the role of The Woman in the premiere of Sam Shepard’s short play, It wasn’t Proust at The Matrix Theater. Other roles include Queen Anne in Circle X’s Edward II at The Actors Gang, Beth in Dinner With Friends at The Vineyard Playhouse, and Ophelia in Fortinbras at The 78th Street Theatre Lab.
Ms. Crane is currently co-producing a Broadway musical, The Boys of Summer, based on the award-winning book by Roger Kahn. She is also Vice Chair of Kidtagious, a children’s entertainment and intellectual property development company. She received a BFA from Boston University and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Al Kahn is Chairman and CEO of Kidtagious and has been responsible for many of the biggest hits in licensing including Cabbage Patch Kids, Pokémon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Yu-Gi-Oh! He is also credited for the marketing and licensing programs for other iconic brands such as Nintendo, Mario Bros, Zelda, Donkey Kong, James Bond, World Wrestling Federation, WCW, Monster Jam Monster Trucks, Xbox, and Polly Pocket. In June 2005, Kahn was inducted into the International Licensing Industry Merchandisers’ Association (LIMA) Murray Altschuler Licensing Hall of Fame. That very same year, Kahn was also inducted into the Kidscreen Hall of Fame. Kahn started VeVe collectibles with David Yu and Dan Crothers, 3 years ago, which is now one of the recognized leaders in the NFT space. He also became the chief marketing officer for VitiPrints, which is just introducing the first Viracide masks that deactivate COVID-19 and its variants within a minute of contact with the mask’s surface. Mr. Kahn also serves on the Board of Long Island University and is Chairman of the University Relations Committee.
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Lisa Hamilton Daly is a Director, Original Series at Netflix, where she oversees the development and production of drama series. Previously, she worked for A+E’s Lifetime channel and at DreamWorks Pictures in development and creative and literary affairs in both the Los Angeles and New York offices.
She started her career at Artists Management Group, Michael Ovitz’s management venture, in the literary rights department. She holds an M.A./Ph.D. in English and American Literature and Languages from Harvard University. She is one of the founders of the fundraising organization Persist Happy Hour, which has raised money for candidates across California and the United States, and she has been involved in charitable work for Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, and L.A. Family Housing. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
Coye is a Partner in OC&C’s Retail and Consumer Practice and the global lead of OC&C’s Beauty and Luxury Practice. Her work includes corporate strategy where she advises companies on topics like growth strategy, market expansion, and digital transformation. Coye’s clients also include private equity funds and banks where she advises on M&A transactions. Some of her recent transactions include advising Unilever on the acquisition of Dollar Shave Club, Dermalogica, and Murad.
She is also an entrepreneur, having launched and built a luxury footwear brand. The brand reached distribution across the US, Asia, and Europe with showrooms in Europe and the US – and exclusive distribution agreements in China and South Korea.
Coye brings passion and an entrepreneurial mindset to her interests – both personal and professional. She is an avid runner having completed a number of races including marathons in both New York and Paris. Coye has been inspired during her time on the First Responders Children’s Foundation Benefit Committee and looks forward to helping to raise the profile of such the organization.
Coye holds an MBA from London Business School.
Cristina Kim is a Managing Director in the Strategic Investments group at J.P. Morgan. The team partners across the firm to make minority investments in emerging technology and FinTech companies to further accelerate innovation and digital transformation. Cristina leads the North American Corporate Investment Banking sector within the group.
Cristina joined J.P. Morgan in 2004 and held positions in the Investment Banking group in Hong Kong and the Strategy and Business Development team in London. Prior to that, she worked in the Direct Investment Group at Merrill Lynch working in both the New York and Sao Paulo offices.
Cristina was born and raised in Paraguay, and her family is from South Korea. Cristina received her MBA from Columbia Business School and holds a BA in Political Science from Yale University. She is fluent in Spanish (native), Korean (native), Portuguese, and English.
Daniel A. Nigro became the 33rd Commissioner of the New York City Fire Department on June 9, 2014. As Commissioner, he led a workforce of more than 17,000 uniformed and civilian members. Prior to his appointment as Fire Commissioner, he served for nearly 33 years as a uniformed member of the Department. A native and lifelong resident of Queens County, he entered the Fire Department in 1969 and quickly and steadily rose through the ranks from firefighter to lieutenant, captain, battalion, and deputy chief. He was appointed a staff chief in October of 1994. His vast experience includes service in the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, and Brooklyn as well as various administrative positions. As Assistant Chief of Operations, he worked toward instituting a Certified First Responder Program which brought, for the first time, fire units into New York City’s Emergency Medical Response. He was instrumental in the merger of EMS and FDNY and became the first FDNY Chief of EMS in 1996.
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Toni L. Lupo serves The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) as Principal Counsel at Hulu. In her current role, Toni provides legal counsel in connection with a wide range of matters impacting Hulu/TWDC such as compliance, marketing, strategic initiatives, negotiation, and maintenance of content distribution agreements for Hulu + Live TV, premium add-ons, and ESPN+ on Hulu.
Prior to joining Hulu/TWDC, Toni worked as a senior attorney in a premier global practice group providing transactional counsel to clients across the media and entertainment industry, including television networks, streaming services, sports teams, private equity firms, video and mobile game developers, software companies, and other media companies, developing a deep understanding of legal intricacies and cultivating her passion for social responsibility.
Toni is an active member of The WICT Network (formerly known as Women in Cable Telecommunications), a leadership organization designed to empower women in media, entertainment, and technology. She has been recognized by Super Lawyers Magazine as a “Rising Star” and The Best Lawyers in America as both “Ones to Watch” in the Entertainment and Sports Law category and “Women in The Law: Ones to Watch”.
Toni brings to the First Responders Children’s Foundation her passion for engaging in activities that serve to advance community and civic interests and support diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion. Her unique combination of legal expertise and experience, passion for social responsibility, and commitment to supporting the community will undoubtedly contribute to the Foundation’s mission of supporting and empowering first responders and their families across the nation.
Ms. Rosinsky joined Renaissance in 1994. Her responsibilities include overseeing the IT, security, and facilities groups. Prior to joining Renaissance, Ms. Rosinsky worked at Unisys and Image Business Systems where she was a software engineer. Ms. Rosinsky holds a BS in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology and an MS in Computer Science from Polytechnic University, now part of New York University.
Ms. Rosinsky’s husband, James, is a retired Captain from the New York City Fire Department. He spent 23 years with the department. She has two daughters, Megan, 18, and Nicole, 14.
Lionel Leventhal is the founder and Managing Member of Royalty/Revenue Interest Capital, a merchant bank that provides non-dilutive royalty capital for licensing and franchise-based businesses across multiple industries; and is a Managing Director and the head of Ladenburg Thalmann’s Royalty and Revenue Interest Financing practice, serving as an investment banker to raise non-dilutive capital for biopharmaceutical and medical device companies worldwide.
Previously, Mr. Leventhal was a co-founder and general partner of Paul Capital Healthcare and Paul Capital Partners, respectively. At Paul Capital, Mr. Leventhal is credited with having been a pioneer in the creation of synthetic royalty (a.k.a. revenue interest) financing and a co-founder of the first private equity fund established to buy passive royalties and provide revenue interest financing to the biopharma market in 1999. As a fund manager originally and as a banker today, Mr. Leventhal has been responsible for structuring, executing, and/or managing more than $2 billion of royalty, revenue interest, and other non-dilutive financings for life sciences companies.
Matt’s practice is focused upon the representation of September 11th first responders who were injured or have developed illnesses due to their invaluable service at Ground Zero, Fresh Kills, and other disaster sites during the rescue and recovery operations following the 9/11 attack, and civilian survivors who lived or worked in lower Manhattan and are now afflicted with some of the same post-attack diseases. Matt, a former NYPD police officer and still-licensed paramedic, was a 9/11 first responder and has now been advocating on behalf of first responders and survivors for over 13 years. As many (but not all) Americans are aware, September 11th first responders and civilian survivors have been developing sometimes-fatal cancers, lung ailments, and other diseases at alarmingly high rates, often tragically leaving them and their families with impaired earning ability and outsize medical costs. The first responders were not only firefighters and police officers but also paramedics and EMTs, nurses, construction and iron workers, sanitation workers, civilian volunteers, and others.
Together with some of the country’s best advocates, Matt lobbied feverishly for the passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, affording benefits and compensation to ill and injured first responders and civilian survivors through the creation of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, administered by the U.S. Department of Justice. Matt and other dedicated advocates of the crucial legislation successfully redoubled their efforts and got Congress to reauthorize the “Zadroga Act” in 2015, and will fight for the cause of the September 11th first responders and civilian survivors for as long as the need exists.
Michael is a storyteller. He works across all scales and is agnostic to medium. His creative practice is informed by a life that, from his earliest days, has been lived across the globe – in Beirut, Morocco, India, Mauritius, Senegal, Ivory Coast, London, and the United States. At 25 years old, he moved to New York City to pursue a life as an actor and artist. He first made ends meet hustling balloon animals beneath a lamppost in New York’s Union Square. Today, Beneville Studios is located just around the corner from that lamppost.
Michael and his team specialize in realizing the visions and telling the stories of their clients, whether individuals, families, or corporations. At any given time, they might be simultaneously and discreetly creating projects as varied as privately commissioned books, machines, films, fine art, and corporate headquarters for the world’s most exclusive clientele. Beneville Studios excels at working directly with CEOs and their leadership teams to express a company’s vision and brand in three dimensions. Working collaboratively with multiple teams, Beneville Studios’ creativity inspires the genesis of the design, grounds it in the mission of its clients, and forms the connective tissue that holds the teams and the concept together as the project progresses.
Michael Beneville is the Chief Creative Officer and visionary leader behind AREA15, a 250,000-square-foot reinvention of immersive art, entertainment, and retail that opened in Las Vegas in September 2020.
Michael and the Beneville Studios team have been creative consultants for the award-winning New York City headquarters of iHeartMedia, the completely reimagined entrance to the Empire State Building Observatory, the lounges for BLADE helicopters in both New York and Miami, and the Warner Music Group offices in Los Angeles. Today, the firm’s purview includes millions of square feet of design and projects that span the globe and the metaverse. Michael is also the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Vatom Inc., a vertically-integrated Web3 company powered by Vatom’s smart NFTs and universal wallet that is persistent across both the physical and digital worlds.
Allison Isaacson Beahm joined SERVPRO HQ’s Training Division in 2013 to develop a best practices program, host personal development workshops, and help improve the company’s operating system. In 2017, she joined the Communications Department—creating the organization’s first KPM resources and developing editorial and multimedia content about storm events, industry events, and SERVPRO franchise teams. From 2019 to the present, Allison has been leading SERVPRO HQ’s Communications Department, which is responsible for editorial management, intranet management, field reporting, multimedia services, public relations, brand reputation management, digital asset management, digital signage, peer-to-peer best practices dissemination, and fostering company culture. Her team’s purpose is to drive awareness of information and resources to maximize utilization of the company’s operating system. Throughout her career, Mrs. Beahm has served on the boards of directors of nonprofits such as the Sumner County Family YMCA, Restore Small Groups, Pope John Paul II Preparatory Academy, and First Responders Children’s Foundation. Allison Isaacson Beahm graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2012 with majors in both economics and communication studies as well as a minor in corporate strategy.