Israel Cancer Association USA HOPE AND HEROES LUNCHEON Featuring Keynote Speaker Rob Minkoff Animator Producer Director Drawing on Experience LUNCHEON CHAIRPERSONS: Nancy Brown & Lexye Aversa

HONORARY CHAIR EMERITUS: Arthur E. Benjamin

HONORARY CHAIR: Claire Levine

BENEFIT HOST COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: Heddy & Bruce Koppel

$50,000 ACADEMY AWARD STAR Janet & Bruce Adler in honor of Nancy & Peter Brown

$25,000 EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Nancy & Peter Brown Deena & Seymour Freeman

DIRECTOR LEVEL SUPPORTERS Claire Levine David and Rhoda Chase Family Foundation

CINEMATOGRAPHER LEVEL SUPPORTERS Heddy & Bruce Koppel Drs. John & Daisy Merey Jan Willinger & Bob Spiegel

BENEFIT HOST COMMITTEE MEMBERS Joan & David Genser Lee & Harvey L. Poppel Israel Cancer Association USA HOPE AND HEROES LUNCHEON

Where Science and Art will intersect, Presenting Keynote Speaker Rob Minkoff Renowned Animator, Producer and Director of the films “Stuart Little” and Oscar®-winning “The Lion King.”

Drawing on Experience

Sunday, March 11, 2018 (Daylight Savings Time Begins) 11:00 am Reception, followed by Luncheon (Vendors on site from 10:30 am)

Eau Palm Beach 100 South Ocean Boulevard Manalapan, Florida 33462

Proceeds will benefit Cancer Research Fellowship Grants OFFICERS Bruce S. Koppel, President Peter D. Brown, Secretary/Treasurer Roy N. Apple, Past President Lexye Aversa, Executive Vice President Deena Freeman, Executive Vice President Bruce Lein, DDS, Executive Vice President Phyllis Liss, Executive Vice President Steven Melman, VMD, Executive Vice President

DIRECTORS Richard J. Boxer, MD John H. Merey, MD Adam Brown Wilma S. Mooney Kenneth Druskin Harvey L. Poppel David Genser Barry I. Slotnick Elyssa Kupferberg Rick Smith Sean McGould Gail K. Worth

ADVISORY BOARD Nancy Brown Linda R. Kaminow Irene K Leiwant Daisy Merey, MD Irene G. Ostroff Mission S tatement Israel Cancer Association USA (ICA USA) is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization established in Palm Beach, Florida. Our mission is to raise funds for fellowship grants that support cancer research conducted by award-winning scien- tists at leading hospitals, universities and institutions throughout Israel. Uniquely, 100% of fellowship funding goes directly to the scientist – not the institution, nor for our overhead.

Israel Cancer Association (ICA) established in 1952, is the leading and largest health-related organization in Israel, but receives no government funding, depending entirely upon private donations.

2751 S. Dixie Highway, Suite 3A, West Palm Beach, Florida 33405 561.832.9277 www.icausa.org Rob Minkoff

is a Film Director best known for the Academy Award–winning animated feature “The Lion King.”

Rob was born & raised in Palo Alto, California, where his interest in drawing and animation was sparked by watching Super 8 mm cartoons, including Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty,” his father kept at his Audio Visual Center office, allowing him to study them one frame at a time.

He attended California Institute of the Arts in the Character Animation program in 1980. That same year, he met legendary Animation Director, Chuck Jones, creator of “Pepe le Pew” and the “Road Runner & Coyote” (among many others), after a tribute to Mel Blanc at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

He was first given the opportunity to work at Disney as an Intern under the Mentorship of Disney Legend, Eric Larson, during the summer of 1982.

The following year, Rob was hired by Disney as an Inbetweener on “The Black Cauldron” (1985). He was then asked to design characters for “The Great Mouse Detective,” and afterward promoted to Supervising Animator (1986). He took time off from Disney to work as a character designer for “The Brave Little Toaster” (1987). And then returned to Disney where he co-wrote the song “Good Company” for the film “Oliver & Company” (1988). Later, he joined the production team on “The Little Mermaid” (1989) where he designed the character of Ursula the Sea Witch.

Rob made his directorial debut with two Roger Rabbit shorts, “Tummy Trouble” (1989) and “Roller Coaster Rabbit” (1990). His first foray into Live-Action was with the theme park short, “Mickey’s Audition,” featuring Mel Brooks, which served as a pre-show for an attraction at the Disney-MGM Studio Tour (1992).

In 1992 Rob began working on Disney’s 32nd animated feature, “The Lion King,” with co-director, Roger Allers (1994).

Following the success of “The Lion King,” Rob left Disney to work with Columbia Pictures on the Stuart Little films, based on the books by E.B White. The films combined live-action with computer animation, marking an early effort in the combination of those mediums.

He returned to Disney for “The Haunted Mansion” starring Eddie Murphy (2003). Traveled to China for “The Forbidden Kingdom” co-starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li (2008). And then returned to the world of animation for DreamWorks’ “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” (2014), a big screen adaptation of the Jay Ward cartoons that aired during the seminal 1960’s animated TV series, “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.”

Rob is currently developing several projects, including “Blazing Samurai,” an animated retelling of Mel Brook’s classic comedy, “Blazing Saddles.” As well as “Wolf Totem,” an animated film adaptation of the best-selling Chinese novel.

He currently resides in Bel Air, California with his wife, Crystal Kung Minkoff and their two children, Max and Zoe. Israel Cancer Association USA HOPE AND HEROES LUNCHEON Sunday, March 11, 2018 RSVP by February 16, 2018

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