Speaker Biographies

Miriam Katowitz

CBS '74, CFO, Safe Horizon

Miriam Katowitz is CFO for Safe Horizon a not for profit agency whose mission is to provide support, prevent violence and promote justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families and communities. Ms. Katowitz reports to chief executive officer, Gordon Campbell. She joined the Safe Horizon in June 2002.

Previously, Ms. Katowitz was Chief Financial Officer and Director of Operations and Strategic Planning at the 92nd Street Y. At the Y Ms. Katowitz’s responsibilities included Accounting, Technology, Human Resouces, Facilities, Theatre and Media Operations, and Strategic Planning. Prior to that Ms. Katowitz was a finance division managing-director and 20-year employee of the Republic National Bank of New York (now HSBC Bank USA). At HSBC, she oversaw the bank's budgeting and planning, cost-allocation, customer-profitability, and trading and treasury-reporting areas. She was also responsible for creating and managing a corporate-wide information and profitability-management system - a project that involved recruiting a team of 70 and working with 50 business units around the world to integrate 40 distinct information systems, 200 products and one million customer accounts.

Ms. Katowitz’s professional affiliations have included the Long Island College Hospital as Treasurer, Board of Regents; Chairperson, Operations, Investment and Audit Committees, and Member, Executive Committee and Committee on Trustees; board member Republic Foundation for Breast Cancer Research.

She currently serves on the board of the Brooklyn Public Library Foundation, the Leadership Council of Alliance for Not for Profit Goverance (ANG) and is a member of the Financial Women's Association, the Association of Certified Public Accountants, and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Ms. Katowitz holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and an undergraduate degree from Goucher College. She resides in Brooklyn, New York.