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