About

The Park School Board of Trustees is pleased to welcome four new members to the Board: Brenda Feldstein, Guy Gunzberg '58, Todd Levin '86, and Ken Peterson. We are grateful to the entire Board for their service and dedication to Park. Learn more about our newest members below. 

Brenda Feldstein is an award winning filmmaker and journalist originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil. In Brazil, she worked as a reporter and news anchor for a TV news and entertainment show. In the US, she earned a MBA from the University at Buffalo and founded A Special Story, a production company where she uses her storytelling passion to produce documentaries. Brenda serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Buffalo Jewish Federation and is the chair of LiNK, its engagement branch. She was the Federation’s 2020 Emerging Leadership Award recipient. 

Her interests include reading (historical fiction and magical realism), watching documentaries, traveling to national parks, and nature photography. Brenda and husband Eric and have two children: Eli (14), and Gabi (12), who is Park student. 

Guy Gunzberg architected and managed corporate information systems, directed  strategic planning at both corporate and information systems levels, and founded  an e-learning company. He was an officer at Buffalo’s M. Wile & Co. before moving to Chicago, where he held executive positions at Hartmarx Corporation,  Fel-Pro, and American Express Tax and Business Services. He pioneered the industrial use of Computer Aided Design, Sales Force  Automation, and Factory Data Collection, for which he holds several patents. Guy was the former Board Chair of the Center for Research in Information  Management at the College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at  Chicago; Program Director of Textile/Clothing Technology Corporation [TC]2 that  developed fully automatic manufacturing systems; and a member of the Uniform  Code Council committee that set retail bar code standards. After he retired, Guy tutored Advanced Mathematics at Evanston Township High  School, served as a Volunteer Consultant with the Executive Service Corps, and was President of the Rembrandt Chamber Musicians. 

Guy attended Park School from the age of 4, spending part of his senior year in New Zealand in the first cohort of American Field Service students to study abroad. He took a year off college to sail across the Pacific as Second Mate and  Navigator on the Brigantine Yankee, the famous square-rigged sailing ship. Guy was awarded BA and MBA degrees from Harvard University.

Todd Levin is the Founder and President of Niagara Metals, a full-service scrap metal and transloading facility headquartered in Niagara Falls, NY with seven locations throughout Western and Central New York. Niagara Metals recently received the Buffalo Niagara Business Ethics Award, which recognizes local businesses that consistently demonstrate ethical conduct in everything they do. Todd has also been actively involved in Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Hearing & Speech, Love Heart and Soul of Niagara, the Buffalo Jewish Federation, and March of Dimes.

He is a graduate of the University of Hartford, and previously served on Park’s Board of Trustees, with active involvement in the conceptual and fundraising phases of the Centennial Capital Campaign to build the Knopp-Hailpern Center. Todd and his wife have three adult children: Taylor, Julia, and Connor ’16. 

Ken Peterson is the Founder and CEO of KXD Consulting LLC, an impact communications and economic inclusion group, which drives mission-oriented capital and inclusive strategies for underserved communities. Through his work at KXD, Ken focuses on finding better solutions at the intersection of society’s most complex challenges: improving educational outcomes, granting access to workforce opportunities, and providing quality, affordable housing, and health care. Ken’s clients have included the GE Foundation, Siemens Corporation, Pearson Education, the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, Norstar Development USA and the NRP Group. Additionally, Ken has more than 20 years of experience in government relations, public affairs, and community economic development for public, private, and non-profit organizations. 

In 2020, his passion for African American heritage led him to become involved with civic preservation projects: rescuing and restoring Murphy Orchard, a historic fruit farm near Lake Ontario that had been a stop on the Underground Railroad; and renovating and expanding the Colored Musicians Club & Museum, formerly Musicians Local 533—the only continuously running black owned club in the United States. Ken earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Medaille College in Buffalo, NY and graduated from Leadership Buffalo, the Governor’s Leadership Classroom of 1998. He also received honors from Buffalo Business First.