52 | FEBRUARY 13 • 2020 

Every day at work is like
going to a family dinner.

— MATT RAN

ALL IN THE FAMILY continued from page 51

based firm that offers financial advisory, investment 
management and asset management solutions to high-
net-worth investors. Gary Ran, the company’
s chairman 
and CEO, founded Telemus with his brother-in-law, 
Rob Stone, and former brother-in-law, Lyle Wolberg, in 
2005. Now, his two sons, Michael, 31, and Matt, 34, are 
part of the team.
Michael and his wife, Arielle, moved back to Metro 
Detroit from Philadelphia about a year ago. He pre-
viously worked in the restaurant industry and is now 
a financial life adviser. He says he always admired his 
father’
s passion for his work and wanted to follow in his 
footsteps.
“It’
s always interesting to go into meetings — it’
s cool 
to see how other people see him,
” Michael says. “Detroit 
is thriving. Young people are moving to the city. It’
s a 
fun place to be, which is an added draw to being back 
home.
” 
Matt serves as director of growth and development 
for Telemus and has been with the company since 
2008. He has also taken an active role in the Jewish 
community as a member of the Jewish Federation of 
Metropolitan Detroit’
s Board of Governors and vice 
president of Michigan ORT. In addition, he is a Detroit 
co-chair for the National Young Leadership Cabinet of 
the Jewish Federations of North America and serves on 
the boards of the Jewish Community Center and Yad 
Ezra. Matt and his wife, Jodie, live in Bloomfield Hills 
with their two young children.
“Every day at work is like going to a family dinner,
” 
he jokes. “Metro Detroit is a great place to raise a fam-
ily. If I had a choice between here and anywhere else, I 
would choose here.
”
For Gary, having two of his three sons working 
alongside him is a feeling money can’
t buy. His young-
est son, Jeffrey, 30, lives in California and works in real 
estate.
“I told my wife the first day Mike started that it was 
such a happy moment for me, seeing my kids working 
with me and seeing the two of them go to lunch 
together,
” Gary says. “I think there are a lot of positives 
to [working with family], trust, familiarity — at every 
family event, we end up talking business.
” 

business SPOTlight

Sports Detroit and has been nominat-
ed for more than a dozen more.
“It really is a true team effort. I may 
be one of the few people named on 
the award, but there are 40 people 
who put the work into the telecast each 
night to make it happen. It’
s much 
more than just me.
”
When Dizik is not working at FOX 
Sports Detroit, he gives back to the 
community that helped him to pursue 
his passion.
He currently sits on three boards, 
including the board of governors 
for the Michigan Chapter of the 

National Academy of Television Arts 
and Sciences, the Central Michigan 
University School of Broadcast and 
Cinematic Arts Alumni Advisory 
Board and the Farmington Public 
Schools TV-10 Career and Technical 

Jason Dizik and his wife Emily with Tigers Hall 
of Famer and color analyst Jack Morris as he 
was honored by the Michigan Jewish Sports 
Foundation at Franklin Hills this summer.

PASSION FOR SPORTS continued from page 51

Valerie Newman was inducted 
into the Wayne State University Law 
School Miller 
Family Wayne 
Law Alumni Wall 
of Fame. She was 
one of five Wayne 
State University 
Law School 
alumni inducted 
during the ceremony. The award is 
the highest honor presented by the 
law school and recognizes gradu-
ates, former faculty and staff “whose 
extraordinary professional success 
and contributions, profound positive 
influence on Wayne Law, and high 
degree of character and integrity are 
recognized by their peers.”

here’s to

continued from page 50

Stacy Goldberg has become 
a trustee of the Children’
s 
Foundation, an independent 
community foundation for 
children. Goldberg has more 
than 20 years of experience as 
a nutrition consultant and has 
been named the Official Health 
and Wellness Consultant/Nutritionist for the 
National Basketball Coaches Association. 

Lois Cohn has 
been named first 
consultant for the 
state of Michigan 
by Sotheby’
s 
auction house. 
She will assist 
Michigan clients 
in the selling and valuation of their 
works of art. Cohn brings 30 years 
of experience as the former owner 
of Artspace, a fine art gallery in 
Birmingham.

Friendship Circle in West Bloomfield was selected 
by Oakland County Impact 100 as the recipient of a 
$102,000 grant award for their UMatter program. 
UMatter is designed to help teens who are strug-
gling with mental illness. It is a program for teens 
by teens, to teach that every person has inherent 
value and deserves to be connected to others. 
UMatter provides a safe space to have difficult 
conversations about things that matter. 

TODD WEINSTEIN

Bassie Shemtov, Sammy Schwartz and Rabbi 
Yarden Blumstein

