Board of Directors
Barry S. Honig
Barry S. Honig is President and CEO of TruckPay, Inc., a start-up logistics technology company and President of Honig International, an executive search and management consulting firm.
Mr. Honig is a graduate of Columbia University School of Engineering, with a degree in Applied Mathematics and graduate work in Computer Science. He was the first blind graduate of the world-renowned Bronx High-School of Science. Mr. Honig brings 39 years of work experience to the organization. He has worked as a Senior Technology Manager for firms like Morgan Stanley, where he ran the Foreign Exchange, Commodity, and Global Credit Risk Technology groups. Mr. Honig has also served as a Risk Management Consultant, Commodity Trader, and as an Adjunct Professor at New York University. He is a former owner of an earth moving logistics business and has an insider’s view of the needs of this industry.
Mr. Honig holds two patents and two pending patents, for his work in contactless truck scale management and in mobile and cloud-based fleet management logistics. He is very active in his local community, having directed the Tenafly Chabad’s “Free Loan Association.” He is also a past member of the New Jersey State Israel Commission, appointed by Governor Chris Christie and has served as an elected Councilman in Tenafly, New Jersey. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the JCC on the Palisades and the Board of Directors of the Yeshivat Noam School. Mr. Honig is also a board member and past President of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) for Northeastern NJ.
Mr. Honig is very dedicated to helping the disabled and those with other special needs, as he currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Freedom Guide Dogs and as a board member of Road Recovery. Road Recovery is focused on helping at risk teens and young adults through music and a variety of other programs. He also serves on JNF’s National Task Force for the Disabled and is National Co-Chair of JNF’s Special in Uniform project. Mr. Honig has also served on the National Board of Directors of “Recordings for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFBD)” and is a past board member of Alphapointe. Alphapointe is an organization dedicated to providing hundreds of manufacturing and technology jobs, as well as technology training and vision care, to visually impaired individuals.
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