Allan L. Smith (Smitty) – Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Allan or Smitty, as most know him, is a graduate of Brandeis University and the Boston Hebrew College. He studied in Jerusalem at the Hebrew University and was ordained a Reform Rabbi by the Hebrew Union College. Allan holds the degrees of BA, BJEd, MA and DHL, and was, for thirty years, the Director of the URJ Youth Division, a system of twelve resident camps, an international travel program, a high school youth program and a college youth program with over 200 full time employees and a budget in excess of $30,000,000 per annum.

Ron Furman – Senior Vice President

Ron earned a BS in Business Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University and recently completed his MBA in Human Resource Management at UMass/Amherst. He has extensive experience as an executive in the hospitality industry with an emphasis on CRM, multi-site operations, contract/vendor management, project management, team development/training and strategic business planning. He resides in Massachusetts and oversees overall operations for CCS.

Glynis Conyer - Chief Operating Officer

Glynis was born in South Africa, received her BA from the University of South Africa and was ordained a Reform Rabbi by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Glynis served as a resident camp director for eight years and has extensive experience in human resources for the summer camp industry. Prior to joining CCS, Glynis served as consultant on operations and staffing for twelve summer camps. She has been most successful in the development of specialty programming in the private and public camping sectors.

Leonard Keilin – Vice President of Recruiting and Placement

Len comes to CCS from his most recent position as Executive Director of Camp Mountain Chai, in La Jolla, California. Prior to that, Len was the Associate International Director of BBYO and International Director of Camping Services for B'nai B'rith, where he served for twenty five years, including 6 years as Director of the Perlman Camp in Starlight, Pennsylvania and 14 years as Director of Beber Camp in Mukwonago, WI. In addition, Len directed Camps Seneca Lake and SiSol in Rochester, NY and worked at Camp Walden in Bolton Landing, NY. He has a Master's degree in Counseling from Syracuse University. Len has been involved in international staffing for more than 20 years.

Karen Cooper - Chief of Financial Operations

Karen has been Director of Finance for a large public sector camping organization for over thirty years and is the Director of Financial Operations for CCS. Karen brings over thirty years of financial management experience in the camping and travel industries.

Ronen Drory – CEO of Israel Operations

Ronen was born in Israel and received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. During his army service, he served as a communications officer in an elite unit. He has over 20 years of hi-tech and business experience and has worked in startups with offices in the US, serving as VP Worldwide Professional Services, COO and HR Manager. He has represented companies in Europe and in Israel and has extensive experience in managing and training teams on large scale projects. Ronen is a graduate of a 12-month youth exchange program to the US, and worked in URJ summer camps.

Shai Nemesh – International Recruitment Coordinator

Shai was educated in Economics and Management at the Open University and Sound Engineering at Emek HaYarden College. He has been an emissary to summer camps in the United States. Shai has been a member of the recruitment team for the Summer Staff and Emissary Program of the Jewish Agency. Most recently he has been the Logistical Coordinator of the Summer Program for the Jewish Agency and led screening and training workshops for the Summer Staff Program.

Yonatan Sacker – Operations Manager - Israel

Yonatan was born in South Africa and moved to Israel when he was 18. After his army service, Yonatan worked at summer camps in the USA. He was the Assistant Director of the Summer Camp Program of the Jewish Agency where he was responsible for recruitment, screening and training of thousands of successful international staff. Yonatan spent three years in Australia as an emissary of the Jewish agency, where he worked intensively with the Reform Movement. Most recently, Yonatan was the International Programs Coordinator at the Leo Baeck Education Center in Haifa, Israel.

Shelley Smith - Operations Manager - Australia

Shelley studied Child Development in Sydney before embarking on a 8 year "working holiday". Her extensive travels saw her living and working in various locations throughout Africa, Europe, North America and The South Pacific. Shelley spent 3 summers in a director role at a New Jersey summer camp as well as 4 seasons working as a Naturalist in an Outdoor, Environmental and Adventure Education unit. She has spent 4 years recruiting International staff to work in American venues and is currently working from Port Macquarie NSW, completing a counselling degree and raising her two beautiful boys.

Yael Zwighaft - Israel Logistics

Yael grew up in the Israeli Scouts Movement. She has spent many hours on a climbing wall and was a Ropes Course instructor and Unit Head for 2 summers at a summer camp in the USA. Yael is the voice that answers the hundreds of phone calls in the Israel Office.