Executive Vice President, Financial Resource Development

Susan Gotlib was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the Shoah. Her parents were Polish Jews who survived the Lodz ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1949.

Susan has dedicated the past twenty four years of her professional career to serving the Jewish community. She is a graduate of Hebrew Union College - School of Jewish Communal Service and began her career in resource development with The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, where she worked for over ten years. Susan held a number of positions with the Federation, including Real Estate and Construction Division Director, Assistant Campaign Director and Director of Community Development. She was a member of the Federation’s senior management team and nationally the first woman to be appointed to the position of Director of Business and Professions of a major federation.

In 1994, Susan assumed the position of Executive Director for the Western Region of The Jewish National Fund (JNF.) The JNF Western Region housed a national tree certificate center and had offices located in the Valley and City of Los Angeles. She also traveled regularly to New York to staff a National Campaign Task Force at JNF’s headquarters in Manhattan. 

In 1999, Susan took the position of Director of Resource Development for the American Jewish Committee (AJC) where she stayed for eight years. Under her guidance, AJC’s annual campaign saw continuous growth and additional fundraising staff were added to the Los Angeles development department.

Susan returned to the Federation in 2007 to assume her current position as Executive Vice President for Financial Resource Development.
 
Susan’s community involvement includes serving as Past President of Second Generation, Children of Holocaust Survivors; Sustaining member and former Treasurer and Vice President for the Jewish Communal Professionals of Southern California (JCPSC); former member of the Executive Committee of the Martyr’s Memorial and Museum of the Holocaust; past member of the Board of Directors of Thalians, Cedars-Sinai Mental Health Center.  

Susan is married to Randy Torpin and they have two sons, Dan and Ilan who is married to Bibi and has two daughters.