Board of Directors Todd Patkin - Jchoice.org
Board Member
After graduating from Tufts University in 1987, Todd entered the family automobile parts business. For over 18 years, he along with his brother Roger and his father Steve (founder) worked together and grew Foreign Autopart (later called Autopart International) into one of the premiere wholesale parts businesses in the country. The company was sold in September of 2005 to Advance Autoparts enabling Todd to leave and put all of his time and energy into what he loves most… spending each day trying to help as many people as he can. Today, Todd runs the Todd G. Patkin Companies with investments in several different businesses many of which are ventures started by friends who needed a little bit of help. In terms of Todd’s charitable works, he focuses on inner city children, how to facilitate more dialogue through out America around the topic of depression and the state of Israel. Todd helps many charities far too many to name here. One of Todd’s favorites though is Merritting Attention a Boston based school age basketball program which puts studying first and basketball second and yet still wins *national titles each year. Todd funded Gary Marino’s Million Calorie March for obesity from Florida back to Boston and is now the executive producer along with Gary of Million Calorie March the movie. Todd also works with Health and Education services on Massachusett’s North Shore. HES services more than 25,000 people per year who suffer from alcohol and drug addictions and/or mental illness. Over 56% of the people who use HES make less than $10,000 per year. And in terms of Israel, Todd is a leader both locally and nationally for the Jewish National Fund and The Friends of Yemin Orde Youth Village. Todd also is the lead sponsor of WOMEN2WOMEN, a week long event each August which brings 100 young women ages 15-19 together in Cambridge MA to learn about leadership etc. The women come to WOMEN2WOMEN each year from across America, Israel and more than 20 different Muslim countries. Todd has been married to and in love with Yadira since October 1991 and they have a fifteen year old son, Joshua.
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