Melissa Cohn to be honored as one of year's Women of Action.At its annual Women of Action Luncheon, on Tuesday, June 20 in the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF ICRF Imperial Cancer Research Fund ICRF International Celestial Reference Frame ICRF Israel Cancer Research Fund ICRF Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequency ICRF International Coalition for Religious Freedom (since 1984; Falls Church, Virginia) ), the North American organization that underwrites promising cancer research by Israeli scientists, will honor Melissa Cohn, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of The Manhattan Mortgage Company, the residential mortgage firm she founded in 1985. She has since grown it into a $5 billion dollar business. Graziano de Boni, president and CEO, Valentino, and Linda Fairstein, the best-selling author and former assistant district attorney and Women of Action honoree, will be Honorary Chairs. Benjamin Brafman, the renowned criminal attorney and frequent legal analyst on ABC's "Good Morning America Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. The show was adapted from The Morning Exchange, a morning show created by and airing on the ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, and was launched nationally as ," will return as Master of Ceremonies. The other two "Women of Action" being honored by ICRF are Susan Isaacs, the best-selling and award-winning novelist, essayist and screen-writer; and Dr. Lisa Young, nutrition consultant and author of The Portion Teller: Smartsize Your Way to Permanent Weight Loss. A nationally recognized expert in the mortgage industry, Cohn serves as a Governor of the Real Estate Board of New York, sits on numerous other boards and committees, and appears regularly on CNN, CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. and ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. . In 2005, Cohn was selected as the first recipient of The Retreat Hope Award for her extraordinary dedication and support of causes that benefit women and children on the East End of Long Island and in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Proceeds from the luncheon, which will begin with a reception at 11:30 a.m., will benefit ICRF's mission to eliminate cancer for the benefit of the entire world by funding Israel's remarkable scientists who include Nobel Prize winner Professors Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Herskho. |
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