Brandeis Magazine

Daniel Jick, P’09, P’12, founder of Boston investment firm HighVista Strategies, was named chair of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center board of directors. Diane Nahabedian is chief marketing officer at the YMCA of Greater Providence. She previously worked at Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Boston and the YMCA of Greater Boston, and also led the marketing communications efforts for the merger of two health systems in central Massachusetts. David Lichter was listed in the 2014 edition of Best Lawyers in America in the fields of arbitration and mediation. He was also cited in the 2014 edition of Florida Super Lawyers in the field of mediation and named one of the Miami area’s top 100 attorneys. Naomi Bromberg Bar-Yam, Heller PhD’97, P’12, is serving as president-elect of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America. Her first grandchild, Tirsiyah, was born on June 6, 2014. Barry Citrin recently joined BankUnited as senior vice president in charge of commercial real-estate portfolio management.