Alan Jaffe

Prior to his retirement, Jaffe was Chairman and CEO (Managing Partner) of Proskauer Rose, a 150-year-old New York-based law firm with 800 attorneys with 11 offices on four continents. Alan’s legal practice included representation of many of New York’s prominent theatrical and performing arts institutions.

Jaffe is an honors graduate of Cornell University and Columbia Law School where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review.

As a volunteer, Jaffe has spent more than 40 years working for a variety of local, national, and international charitable and social services organizations. In Naples, Alan served as Chairman of the Baker Senior Center Naples where he continues to serve on its Executive Committee.  Alan recently concluded a three-year term on the 8 person Board of the Mediterra Community Association which is responsible for the 33 neighborhoods in the Mediterra community where he and his wife have resided since 2014.  Alan completed two years of study and participation as a member of the Greater Naples Leadership Class XXII.

During his years in New York, he held a number of volunteer positions while attending to his legal career. These include, among other organizations: Vice Chairman of the New York Legal Assistance Group, Chairman of the Educational Alliance, President of UJA-Federation Of New York, President of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, Trustee of Beth Israel Medical Center where he chaired the hospital’s legal committee, and Vice Chairman of the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Prior to his election as Chairman of his law firm, Jaffe was a mayoral appointee to the boards of directors of the New York City Public/Private Initiatives Inc, New York Sports Development Corporation, and Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York. He recently served as TNP’s Chairman.