Jim Chin elected chair of FSH Society Board of Directors

During its meeting in February, 2018, the FSH Society’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the executive committee’s recommendation for Jim Chin to be our next board chairperson.  The vacancy was created by the retirement of William Lewis, Sr., MD, from his position as the Society’s board chair, a role in which he served for the past quarter century.

“Jim brings a sharp business expertise that will be valuable to the Society as we refine our focus on catalyzing potential therapies through creative partnerships with the biotech industry,” said Mark Stone, CEO & President of the FSH Society.

Jim has sat on the FSH Society’s board for over 10 years, serving as the chair of both the development and investment committees. Recently, he also served as chair of the search committee assigned to facilitate staff transition and hire and onboard the FSH Society’s new President & CEO. Jim is a passionate advocate of the Society’s mission to accelerate research towards treatments and a cure, as his son Jimmy and his wife Barbara, both now deceased, suffered from FSHD.

“I am committed to our goal of having a disease-modifying drug to our families by 2025,” said Chin. “Our chairman emeritus Bill Lewis’s example will be an inspiration in working with our committed board and staff as we move forward under the leadership of our President / CEO Mark Stone.”

Until his retirement in 2014, Jim worked at UBS Financial Services in White Plains, New York, where he was Managing Partner of the Chin-Meador Team and Senior Vice-President. Prior to his role as a financial consultant, Jim focused his 17-year career in broadcasting sales, predominantly with the CBS television stations, before he switched to finance in 1987.

Jim graduated from the Baruch School of the City College of New York in 1970 with a BBA in Economics and Marketing. A native New Yorker, Jim now resides in Jenks, Oklahoma. He is a former financial lecturer, volunteer firefighter, baseball coach, umpire, and regional director for the Fresh Air Fund. He is a doting grandparent and when he is not spending time with his family, he is busy volunteering for the FSH Society, following the stock market, and playing golf.