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Zalman Shneur Sher Sparano
Executive Director & President Vice President
The Menahem Education Foundation OneGroup

Rabbi Zalman Shneur is the Founder and Executive Sher Sparano has over 30 year of experience in
Director of The Menachem Education Foundation. A the health care industry. Sher has held positions
tireless activist on behalf of Jewish education, Rabbi at all levels in the employee benefits and health
Shneur founded the Menachem Education Foundation care arena, to include working as a benefits
with a goal to raise the bar for Jewish Education. He specialist for multiple hospitals/medical centers,
is widely recognized for his solutions-oriented approach as an administrator for the New York State
to challenges and his passionate advocacy for students. Nurses Benefits and Pension Funds, as a senior
From its headquarters in the Crown Heights area of executive at Empire BlueCross/Blue Shield and
Brooklyn, the Menachem Education Foundation, works as a vice president of BlueCross Maryland's
with over 167 schools in 5 Contitents betterinf and manage care division.
impacting over the education of 25,000 students. Rabbi
Shneur lives in Brooklyn with his wife and six Children. Sher has also been responsible in the direction of many health care components
such as benefit design and implementation, negotiations, participant enrollment,
education, customer service and consulting, underwriting, claim processing,
marketing, contracts, employee handbooks, conflict resolution and much more.
When Sher founded Benefits Advisory Service, she took on numerous consulting
projects, offering clients a unique advantage with her invaluable expertise having
worked from all perspectives in the health care arena. In 2017, Benefits Advisory
Service joined the OneGroup team of insurance, risk management, employee
benefit and human resources specialists in order to offer her clients expanded
resources and to better advocate on their behalf.

Sher has been an active in the health care community with local and national
participation in the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU), as an acting
board member in the Queens Chamber of Commerce and OASAS Compensation
Committee, and by attending critical meetings in Albany and Washington, D.C.
She is also a firm believer in community service involvement and as such serves
on numerous boards and continues to serve the Samaritan Foundation, and the
Rego Park/Forest Hills Lions Club to name a few.

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