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Revision as of 20:13, 7 July 2017
Anya Verkhovskaya (a.k.a. Anya Verkhovskaya-Cohen) is a Moscow-born (circa 1969)[1] consultant, managing director, film producer, and activist.[2]
Background
Verkhovskaya fled the former Soviet Union as a teenage political refugee when she was 19 years old.[2]
From 1994 through 2001, Verkhovskaya worked with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, heading his eastern European and middle Asian operations of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (currently USC Shoah Foundation Institute).[2][3] Her expertise in community outreach in eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union assisted her in creating an outreach community network in more than 20 countries.[4]
The life stories of more than 9,000 Jewish, Romani, and other Holocaust survivors and witnesses were videotaped as a result of Verkhovskaya's work.[2]
Career
Consultant
Her work with Spielberg assisted her in creating a comprehensive method of reaching out to Holocaust victims and their families for the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation and the German Forced Labour Compensation Programme. Verkhovskaya was also a consultant to the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) on outreach strategies, and she supervised the notification of claimants and face-to-face assistance programs in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
From 1999 through 2001, Verkhovskaya served as a consultant for A.B. Data, Ltd., to provide notice of the Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation (Swiss Banks), a $1.25 billion class action settlement, to potential class members. Her efforts resulted in the notification of more than two million people, including Jews and Romanies throughout 109 countries, and translating settlements in 80 different languages.[5][6]
Business
As of December 6, 2016, Verkhovskaya is the managing director of DRRT, an international loss recovery law firm, securities claims filing specialist and litigation funder serving clients with collective Assets under Management of $11 trillion USD.[7] Verkhovskaya has been a pioneer in class member identification and location in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and other consumer cases for purposes of class certification and effectuating notice programs. Verkhovskaya regularly provides expert opinions and testimony concerning ascertainability, class certification, notice adequacy and settlement issues in connection with TCPA matters as well as a variety of other types of class actions.[8]
Before joining DRRT, Verkhovskaya was the senior executive vice president of A.B. Data, Ltd., and chief operating officer[6][9] of its class action administration company, where she oversaw class action administration company and notice implementation in the United States and abroad. She has provided expert testimony and affidavits concerning class action notice manageability and adequacy, class certification, settlement, and fund distribution issues in a variety of class action litigation areas, including: securities fraud, ERISA, consumer, insurance, employment, civil and human rights,[6] environmental, and antitrust.[10][11]
She was also the project director for the Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce (Project HEART), a Holocaust restitution program created by the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Israeli government. Its purpose is to locate Holocaust victims and their heirs whose property was confiscated during the Holocaust and provide information to them to help them obtain restitution for that property. A.B. Data was administering the project, and Verkhovskaya was managing all aspects of it, including public relations, advertising, and maintaining a website and call center for it.[12]
Verkhovskaya was the only female chief operating officer in the industry and was named a finalist in 2009 in both the Best Executive—Service Businesses category for The Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the Best Executive of the Year—Services category for The American Business Awards.[13]
Film production
The Last Days
Verkhovskaya was the field producer and the production manager in The Last Days,[2][14] a documentary feature receiving an Oscar nomination in 1998 and an Oscar win at the 1999 Academy Awards in the 'Best Documentary Feature' category,[15] and which was nominated for an Eddie Award for 'Best Edited Documentary Film' at the American Cinema Editors Awards.[16]
The film tells the stories of five Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, focusing on the horrors of life in the concentration camps, but also stressing the optimism and desire to survive of the survivors themselves. Steven Spielberg served as executive producer.
Children From the Abyss
Verkhovskaya coproduced Children from the Abyss (2001),[2][17][18] a documentary that won the 54th Annual Christopher Award in the Television & Cable category.[19]
In Children from the Abyss, part of Broken Silence (2002), a five-documentary series produced by Steven Spielberg, Russian Holocaust survivors detail their experience of resistance, betrayal, collaborators, rescuers, bystanders, and the desire for revenge.
Activism
Verkhovskaya has served on the Advisory Committee for New Émigrés in New York City and is a founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Archive: Institute of Russian Jewish American Diaspora, New York City, Sir Martin Gilbert, Honorary Chair, a nonprofit organization founded to preserve the history and collective memory of the Jewish immigrant community from the former Soviet Union.[20]
Family
Verkhovskaya got married while in Bulgaria working for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and was later divorced but she had remarried since. She gave birth to a son in 1999, a daughter in 2002, and another son in 2005.[2]
Patents
- Patent Title: Reverse Printed Book[21]
Recognition
Awards & nominations
- 2003, Christopher Award winner, ‘Television & Cable,’ ‘Broken Silence” Children From The Abyss’[22]
- 2009, Stevie Awards finalist, 'Women in Business'[23]
- 2009, Stevie Awards finalist, 'Best Executive of the Year'[23]
- 2010, Stevie Awards finalist, 'Best Executive of the Year'[24]
- 2011, Stevie Awards winner, 'Women in Business'
- 2013, the Golden Bridge Awards bronze winner, ‘Women Executive of the Year’[25]
References
- ^ Cohen, Leon (6 September 2002). "From Milwaukee to the world: A.B. Data reaches 2.5 million people in Holocaust compensation project". Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
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- ^ Eschenazi, Gabriel (3 August 1998). "Holocaust survivors in Russia get chance to tell experiences". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
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suggested) (help) - ^ Krichevsky, Lev (7 August 1998). "Spielberg's Holocaust Project Hits Roadblocks in Ex-USSR". (archive). Jewish Weekly. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "สำนักกฎหมาย Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C. เผย การดำเนินคดีกลุ่มเพื่อเรียกร้องค่าชดเชยจากการประกันการฆ่าล้างเผ่าพันธุ์ ได้ข้อยุติแล้ว" (in Thai). Thai Business News. 30 November 2006. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ a b c "Anya Verkhovskaya Named Senior Executive Vice President and COO of A.B. Data, Ltd". Newswire Today. 28 January 2009. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ DRRT (6 December 2016). "DRRT appoints Anya Verkhovskaya as Managing Director". Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^ "Anya Verkhovskaya - A.B. Data, Ltd". Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^ "A.B. Data Ltd". Google cache. Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 11 May 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Securities Litigation Declaration" (PDF). (Google cache). Stanford. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
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- ^ Kleinman, Lynne (31 March 2011). "Project helps Shoah survivors obtain property compensation". Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 16 April 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
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- ^ "credits: The Last Days". British Film Institute. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
- ^ "The Last Days (1998)". New York Times. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "The Last Days (1998)". IMDB. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "7 Movies Getting Local Premieres at Jewish Film Festival". (Google archives). Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 29 November 2001. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "credits: Broken Silence: Deti Is Besdny". British Film Institute. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
- ^ "The 54th Annual Christopher Award Winners". The Christophers. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "Governing Board". University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "Patent application title: Reverse Printed Book". Patent Docs. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "The 54th Annual Christopher Award Winners". The Christophers, Inc.
- ^ a b "2009 Stevie Awards". American Business Awards. Archived from the original on 14 April 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
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