Name:
David Sterling
AIPAC Role:
Member of AIPAC's Board of Directors
Professional Profile/Associations:
CEO of SterlingRisk, one of the nation's largest privately held insurance brokerages with over 220 employees and offices across six states; joined the family business founded by his grandfather in 1932 as Central Underwriters Agency on Park Avenue in Manhattan and became President and CEO after joining the company in 1978. Serves on the AIPAC national board and on the Executive Board of UJA Federation of New York and is the Chairman of the Long Island Campaign. Maintains extensive law enforcement connections as Vice President of the Nassau County Police Reserves and through advisory roles with the Federal Drug Agents Foundation, Homeland Security Foundation, and Suffolk County Police Reserves. Board member of the American Society for Yad Vashem, which supports Israel's official Holocaust memorial established by the Knesset in 1953; and Treasurer of American Friends of Rambam Hospital in Haifa. His wife Mona Gora-Sterling founded Golden Lioness Corp., a Brooklyn-based property development and management firm, serves on the WIZO board and AIPAC's real estate division board, and is the daughter of Holocaust survivor Jack Gora, a founding benefactor of the Hampton Synagogue. Sterling describes his philanthropic focus as helping "strengthen the U.S.-Israeli alliance."
Accountability:
As a member of AIPAC's Board of Directors, David Sterling bears individual legal responsibility for the organization's conduct. Under U.S. nonprofit law, board members hold fiduciary duties to ensure organizational compliance with applicable legal standards, implement oversight systems for core activities, and respond to credible information about organizational wrongdoing. In Stern v. Lucy Webb Hayes (1974), the federal district court held that nonprofit directors who fail to supervise organizational decisions breach their fiduciary obligations. In In re Lemington Home for the Aged (3d Cir. 2015), the Third Circuit upheld $2.25 million in damages against nonprofit directors who ignored red flags and failed to exercise reasonable oversight.
