BIO

Ron Weiner is chairman and president of Perelson Weiner, Certified Public Accountants. The firm is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, their families and businesses. It also assists international companies and their owners in their activities in the United States.

Ron has been named on 2024 Forbes America”s Top 200 CPAs list. His experience includes financial consulting in business, real estate as well as in acquisition and divestiture matters. He advises on special projects and personal planning. His financial background, broad domestic and international perspective and consultative skills are well attuned to the needs of boards of companies and their owners. He is an expert on management of professional service firms and entrepreneurial businesses. He also helps resolve complex litigation matters. His business knowledge and ability to create tax advantaged structures have been of particular value in estate and tax planning, dispute resolutions, mergers and acquisitions.

Ron received an Honorary Doctor of Law Degree from Babson College in 2022. He has been a director of Nautica, Inc. as well as of Market Basket, a New England supermarket chain where he helped resolve a long-standing, bitter family dispute.

EDUCATION

He earned a BSBA from Babson College and attended both New York University Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School.

COMMUNITY SERVICE & FAMILY

In addition to his client service, he has always been active in his communities. He was International Chair of the Board of the Chief Executives Organization from 2008 to 2009. He currently serves as Chairman of Babson Global, and is a Trustee for the Muhammad Bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship. He is also a Vice Chairman of the Lighthouse Guild for the Blind and a board member and Trustee of the Cancer Research Institute for immunological research.

He is a trustee emeritus of Babson College where he received an Honorary Doctor of Law Degree from Babson in 2022. .He is also trustee emeritus of the Citizens Budget Commission of New York and the Jewish Communal Fund. He served as president of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, and Grants Committee Chairman for UJA Federation of New York. He was the Department of Interreligious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee. and was a Wexner Fellow, a Fellow of the Adenauer Stiftung and a Board Member of Commentary Magazine.

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Currently active:

• Chair-  Perelson Weiner LLP

• Trustee Emeritus – Babson College

• Trustee Emeritus – Jewish Communal Fund

• Trustee Emeritus – Citizens Budget Committee of New York

• Chair – Babson Global

• Trustee and member of the Executive Committee– Muhammed Bin Salman College of Entrepreneurship

• Board Member/ Trustee – Cancer Research Institute for Immunological Research

• Past President – CEO International Chair of the Board

• Past President  - Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

• Advisor – Council for Responsible Leadership chaired by  Mohammad Ibn Abdulkarim Alissa

• Member – Chief Executives Organization

• Member – Council for Strategic and International Studies

• Member – Bretton Woods Group

• Member – Young Presidents Organization – Gold

• Member - Wyantenuck Country Club

• Member- Harmonie Club

• Member - Harvard Club 

Past Activities: 

• International President and Board Member – Chief Executives Organization

• Board Member Babson College

• Vice chair – Lighthouse Guild for the Blind

• Board Member – Jewish Guild for the Blind

• American Jewish Committee 

  • National Officer

  • Chair – interreligious Affairs

  • Board Member

  • President – New York Chapter

• Board Member and Officer – Chief Executives Organization

• Board Member – Young Presidents Organization – New York Chapter

• Trustee – Olin College of Engineering

• Trustee – Cooper Union University

• Board Member – Jewish Communal Fund

• United Jewish Appeal – Grants Committee Chair

• Former Board Member Commentary Magazine

• United Jewish Appeal – Young Leadership

• President – International Group of Accounting Firms

• Member -  New York State Board of Accountancy

• Member of the American Institute of Certified  Public Accountants

• Managing Partners Committee

• Member of New York and New Jersey Societies of Certified Public Accountants

• Certified Public Accountant – NY and NJ

• Board Member - Jewish Big Brothers

• Board Member -Irvington Institute for immunological Research

• Fellow – Wexner Organization

• Fellow – Adenauer Stiftung

• Member, Board Member and Chair of House committee- Mountain ridge Country Club

• Big Brother - Jewish Agency

He has been married to Vicki for 48 years. She is Founder of the Women’s Enterprise Action Loan Fund (WEALF) a foundation dedicated to helping women business owners become financially self-sufficient with interest free loans and one-on-one mentoring.

They have two daughters, one son-in-law and four grandchildren. Their eldest, Jennie, is a professor of Education Policy and Organizational Change at the University of Connecticut. Their daughter Maureen has her own interior design firm based in New York.