Eric Rothman

Eric Rothman has been a member of The Community Synagogue for over 15 years and joined the Board as Trustee in July 2013.  Eric and his wife Pam moved to Port Washington in 1998 and their children Olivia and Douglas both attended the ECC.  Their daughter Olivia had her Baby Naming and Bat Mitzvah at Community and their son Douglas will become a Bar Mitzvah here in September 2014.

Eric is an attorney and an investment banker.  After completing a federal clerkship, he began his career as a corporate finance and bankruptcy attorney at Kaye Scholer, LLP focusing on structured finance, asset backed securitizations, corporate financings and reorganizations. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Rothman was an SVP, Global Head of Structured Products for Assured Guaranty Corp., where he was responsible for developing various structured principal finance opportunities and launched their European office in London.  Following Assured, he was a Managing Director at UBS Securities, LLC where he was a Fixed Income Trader and Structurer.  In 2008, Mr. Rothman became President & Chief Investment Officer at The Zeus Organization, LLC which focuses on specialty finance, structured finance and distressed debt.  Eric received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctorate, with Honors, from The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.