Kenneth Schneider, Esq. Founder and President Head of Legal Department Member of Board of Directors Regional Coordinator Legal, Music and Drama Expert Photo of Kenneth Schneider by Eric Antoniou

Kenneth Schneider is the President of The Apogee Foundation and a member of its Board of Directors. In taking the helm of Apogee, Mr. Schneider has merged his prior careers in both the performing arts and international law and finance into a compelling philanthropic vision.

After studying and performing both as an actor and on musical instruments from every instrument group (voice, woodwind, brasswind, strings and percussion) and obtaining honors in the theory of art and performance at two of America's leading universities, Mr. Schneider pursued a distinguished legal career during which he became a respected international attorney practicing with several of the most prominent law firms in the financial capitals of the U.S., E.U. and C.I.S. In the course of this work and his subsequent service as Head of Executions for the dominant C.I.S. investment and asset management group, Mr. Schneider handled the implementation of international financial transactions and business relationships involving parties in more than 50 countries located on six continents.

In addition to his position at the helm of the Foundation, Mr. Schneider also serves as CEO of an international media & technology group that, like Apogee, specializes in East-West synergies at the elite levels of these industries. Aurience Ltd. assists Apogee in a wide range of projects designed to promote excellence in the arts through crossover opportunities in the fields of media & entertainment and interactive technologies.

Throughout his professional life, Mr. Schneider has marshaled his experience and relationships in all of these fields around the globe into achieving the potential of human excellence. Mr. Schneider thus brings to Apogee a lifetime of success in fulfilling the Foundation's mission with those capable of achieving, and those enabling in others to achieve, this kind of potential.

To read an interview with Kenneth Schneider published in the November 2006 edition of the Harvard College Law Journal, click here: Social Entrepreneur of the Arts.