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BENEFACTOR AWARD - SCOTT & JESSELIE ANDERSON A. Scott Anderson is president and chief executive officer of Zions First National Bank. Zions Bank is Utah’s oldest financial institution and is the only local bank with a statewide distribution of branches. Zions operates 107 full service branches throughout Utah and 25 full service branches in Idaho. In addition to a wide range of traditional banking services, Zions offers a comprehensive array of investment, mortgage, and insurance services and has a network of loan origination offices for small businesses, nationwide. Founded in 1873, Zions Bank has been serving the communities of the Intermountain West for nearly 130 years. A native of Salt Lake City, Anderson joined Zions Bank in December of 1990. Anderson received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and economics from Columbia University in New York. He also received a master’s degree in economics and international studies from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Active in community affairs, Anderson is currently serving on a number of business and non-profit boards. Jesselie Barlow Anderson was born in California and raised in Layton. She received her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Utah in 1968 before beginning a 12-year career with Utah’s congressional delegation in Washington D.C. In 1981, she married Scott Anderson in Tokyo. The Anderson’s spent seven years In Tokyo before moving to California. When Scott Anderson took a position with Zions Bank in 1991, they moved to Utah. Jesselie has a lifetime of involvement in community service, in everything from educational organizations to arts and hospital boards. She currently serves on the following boards and organizations: Utah State Board of Regents; Education First, Legacy of Life Committee (Deseret Foundation); Olene S. Walker Institute of Politics and Public Service (Weber State University); Success in Education Foundation; Waterford School Board of Trustees; Zoo, Arts and Parks Preservation Committee; and a number of councils and boards at the University of Utah. In addition, Jesselie has previously served on the Governor's Mansion Foundation; Natural History Museum of Utah Associates Board; Salt Lake Community College Board of Trustees; The Children's Center Board of Trustees; and Westminster College Board of Trustees. Jesselie has also worked with corporate organizations, including Barlow Corporation, Dale Corporation, Service Credit Corporation, and Service Mortgage Corporation.
ACTIVIST AWARD - ADAM & DGANIT SLOVIK Adam Slovik was born in Queens, New York in 1967, the youngest of four. He made Aliya (relocation to Israel) with his family in 1971 and lived there until 1982 when he returned to New York. After finishing high school in New York, Adam moved to Los Angeles to go to college at Caltech. He graduated in 1988 and went to work for Oracle. In 1992, he co-founded TenFold. Over the next seven years, TenFold grew to nearly $100M in revenue and had a successful IPO. He met Dganit in 2002 and they were married in 2006 after a long-distance relationship with Dganit in Israel and Adam in San Francisco. In 2007, Adam and Dganit moved to Salt Lake City. Adam enjoys golf and skiing, and mentoring and advising startup businesses.
Dganit Herzig Slovik was born in Israel and grew up on Kibbutz Ginossar, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. After graduating high school, she joined the Israeli Military's Nahal Brigade, where she served as a squad sergeant. In 1998, she graduated from Tel Aviv University with a Bachelors degree in English and French, and in 2002 she graduated from Haifa University with a Masters in Political Science and Public Administration.
GUESTS OF HONOR - RABBI BENNY & SHARONNE ZIPPEL Rabbi Benny Zippel was born and raised in Milan, Italy, the youngest of five children. After completing his secular education at the Oxford Institutes with an Advanced Degree in Modern Languages, he studied at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, New Jersey. He completed Rabbinic internships throughout Europe and the United States, and was formally ordained as a Rabbi at the Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim in Brooklyn, New York in 1989. Sharonne Schochet Zippel was born in Toronto, Canada, the third of four children. She completed her schooling through high school in Toronto, before she went off to New York to attend a Teachers College, where she received her degree in early childhood education. Sharonne worked as a schoolteacher in Brooklyn, until her move to Utah. In 1990 she married Rabbi Benny Zippel and together, in 1992, along with their one year old son, they moved to Salt Lake City to start Chabad Lubavitch of Utah. With her incredible organizational skills, she managed to raise and homeschool all of her 6 children, while she ran Chabad's religious school, summer camp and all holiday events, sometimes cooking for up to 200 people all on her own. With her children almost all raised now, and many programs being taken over by her grown children, Sharonne has now also become the office administrator at Chabad of Utah. She enjoys spending time with her grandchildren during any free time she has!
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