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 David
Schnurman CEO & Executive Producer
David Schnurman's love for entrepreneurship started at a young age.
He has always enjoyed reading biographies of history's top entrepreneurs in
the hopes of learning from their successes. He becomes inspired when meeting
new people and learning about their backgrounds and careers.
After working several years in the Internet Advertising industry, David
attended New York Law School and received his J.D. in May 2006. During his
second year, David founded TrueNYC in order to share his passion with the
rest of the world. David has become very active in the NYC entrepreneur
community including being on the planning committee of the NYU
Entrepreneurship Conference and a speaker at Bank of America's Young
Entrepreneurship Expo. In addition to TrueNYC, David is President of
Lawline.com, CLE Inc., a leading provider of Online Continuing Legal
Education.
David also has a love for adventure and discovery. He has
trained to solo Paraglide in the Colorado Mountains, learned to skydive, and
has taken flying lessons. David grew up in Park Slope, Brooklyn and
currently lives in midtown Manhattan with his wife Kelli.
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View Video -- David explains the purpose behind TrueNYC
Zach Heller has always displayed a passion for entrepreneurship
and the creative spirit. While studying marketing and
economics at the University of Delaware, Zach started his first
business with two of his roommates. The business was a website
where travelers could share their ideas and experiences to create a
content driven travel community.
Zach’s passion for small business and ingenuity comes across in
his tutoring. He has spent time helping two small internet
startups as a marketing consultant and business strategist.
With a focus on new markets and online marketing opportunities,
Zach’s consulting clients have continued to grow their businesses.
Zach works at
Lawline.com, a leading provider of continuing education for
lawyers, as their Online Business Coordinator.
In addition to his business endeavors, Zach has always had a
passion for writing. He started writing songs and short
stories as a young boy and continues to write today. He has to
his name several full length screenplays in addition to multiple
short stories and essays. Also, Zach is now writing for The
Legal Beat, a blog featured on
Lawline.com. He is currently in talks to write his first
book for publication.
With TrueNYC, Zach serves a multitude of roles. As lead
camera and production coordinator, Zach assists in all facets of
online and television production. In addition, Zach writes for
the TrueNYC blog and manages the online marketing strategy for
www.truenyc.com.
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Raj Khairam - Video Editor
Raj Khairam is currently a Financial Economics major with a minor in
Cinema at SUNY Binghamton University. He enjoys movies, video games, anime,
comics, and several other areas of geekdom. He has made a dozen short films
and is currently TrueNYC's resident editor.
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|  Meredith
Ganzman - Host/ Producer
Meredith is a double broadcast journalist and
history major at New York University. A New Jersey Native, she grew up known
for her incessant talking and lover for television shows such as "Live with
Regis and Kathy Lee" and "Full House".
At 11
she began performing in community theater. Meredith
immediately caught the acting bug through musicals including Bye Bye
Birdie, Peter Pan, and Annie Get Your Gun.
However, as a junior in high school Meredith
found her real niche. She launched the first student produced programming
for the community cable access channel, anchoring a nightly news broadcast.
She next introduced a talk show to the network for which she was a host and
executive producer.
The
host of TrueNYC, Meredith shares many
entrepreneurial traits including dreaming big and always being a "go
getter." She is happiest when she is working to make it all happen.
Meredith also works at CBS News in the mobile news department. She is
an avid theater patron, shopaholic, and world traveler, most recently
visiting Japan.
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 Kelli
Kalimi - Director, Young Entrepreneurs Program
Kelli
Kalimi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and received her Master's degree
from Columbia University. Since 2002, she has been working in the Liver
Transplant Department at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Kelli's love for
children and learning has led her to work on the establishment of a unique
after school program where TrueNYC facilitators will help children to think
and act like an entrepreneur. The goal is to teach children things they will
not learn in school!
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 Jeff
Zigler - Assistant Producer/ Business Development
In true entrepreneurial style, Jeff has always tried to diversify and
educate himself. At the age of 24, he has had experience in the fields of
law, investment banking, upper- and mid-level corporate management
recruiting, and healthcare. He worked full-time as a Professional Recruiter
while earning a business degree from the University of Texas, graduating in
2004. Jeff currently attends law school in Manhattan, and intends to
continue implementing his entrepreneurial spirit in his law practice.
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