Joseph J. Sherman

This article is about the American marketing strategist and artist. For the Jewish Canadian poet, see Joseph Sherman.

Joseph J. Sherman is an American marketing strategist and artist.

Joseph J. Sherman
Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar (right) with Joseph J. Sherman in Jerusalem
Born	Anaheim, California
Alma mater	University of California, San Diego KEDGE Business School, France
Occupation(s)	Businessperson, artist

Early life

Sherman was born in Anaheim, California, and was raised in Riverside, California. At the age of 10 he spoke at a public hearing regarding noise pollution at Riverside Municipal Airport. Sherman wrote and delivered his own speech to city council members explaining that it was hard to do homework with airplanes constantly flying overhead, and that more airplanes would make studying more difficult. At the age of 11. he was team captain of his elementary school's KidQuiz team, a Saturday morning children's game show on CBS2 in Los Angeles. At the age of 16 he was recruited by the University of California to participate in a young scientists research program. At this program Sherman worked in a National Institutes of Health-sponsored laboratory developing neurotransmitter sensors for brain research.^[1][2] He was a leader in his high school's Key Club.^[3]

Education

Sherman studied at The University of California, San Diego and served on the UCSD Diversity Council.^[4] Sherman studied under anthropologist Charles L. Briggs^[5] He lectured about The Legitimization of Terrorism.^[6] Sherman was a resident at The International House (I-House) on Eleanor Roosevelt College,^[7] and studied abroad at The University of Göttingen in Germany.^[8] Sherman has studied at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico and received a fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley.^[9] Sherman has Non-Profit Management Certification from Duke University.^[10]

Sherman completed his MBA at Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Marseille-Provence (KEDGE Business School) in Marseille, France.^[11][12] He wrote a book on Euro-Mediterranean Corporate Financial Structures based on his research at Kedge.^[13] He was an eMBA exchange student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.^[14]

Personal life

Sherman is a convert to Judaism.^[15][16][17] He lectures about his conversion and about Torah.^[18] He has been featured in Israeli media about his conversion experience, and about his artwork. Mishpacha magazine describes how people could not believe that the man in a beard, peyot, and traditional long black coat was once the gentile buying the chametz from Jerusalem's Beth Din before Passover.^[19] The Orthodox Union described Sherman as "originally an Evangelical Christian youth minister who began to question religion as a teenager. Follow his journey around the world where he studied neuroscience and business until today settled in Israel as a Jew heavily involved in Israel advocacy".^[20][21][22]

He is a member of Toastmasters International.^[23]

Art

Jerusalem Online News, a subsidiary of Channel 2, describes how Sherman's art is inspired by Judaism. "As part of the Kotel (Western Wall) series, Sherman is painting doves of peace and other beautiful birds flying over the skyline of the Kotel... Sherman artistically portrays the vibrant celebrations that occur at Jewish weddings that take place beside the remnants of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem."^[24]

Via the Holocaust Art Institute, Sherman has donated paintings in memory of The Righteous Among the Nations to The Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in the State of Israel, The Serbian Embassy in Israel, The Slovak Embassy in Israel, The Embassy of Belgium in Israel, The Embassy of Hungary in Tel-Aviv, and The Austrian Cultural Forum Tel Aviv.^{[25][26][27][28][29][30]}

Greek Diplomat Alexandros Yennimatas has noted that "“Through his work, Mr. Sherman reminds us all that both creation and destruction are inherently human notions that transcend all forms of social divisions... Mr. Sherman’s resolve to promote the cause of peace and fraternity among peoples stands as a beacon of hope in these difficult times.”^[23]

Business career

Sherman works in business development, sales, and marketing with tech start-ups and scale-ups.^[9] Sherman has been profiled and cited for his business advice by The Harvard Business Review, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Inc. Magazine.^{[31][32][33][34][35]} Sherman has written for The Jerusalem Post, Engadget, and The Times of Israel.^{[36][37][38][39][40]}

References

1. Bandoim, Lana (January 28, 2015). . Hickory, NC: Hareyan Publishing. EMax Health. Archived from the original on February 2, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2015. Joseph J. Sherman, who is an abstract expressionist painter, is influenced by Vincent van Gogh, Marc Chagall, Joan Mitchell and Jackson Pollock. His artwork reveals the conscious and subconscious levels of the human mind. His experience at the age of 16 at the University of California Riverside also influences his art. Sherman had the opportunity to work with the National Institutes of Health on a neurotransmitter sensor project.
2. Widjaya, Ivan (March 2, 2015). "Exclusive Q&A with Joseph J. Sherman on Public Speaking Mastery". Indonesia.
3. says, Monica Emanuela Fleming (December 3, 2019). "Painting by numbers". KIWANIS MAGAZINE. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
4. "UCSD CAMPUS NOTICE: SUBJECT: UCSD Diversity Council 2000–01". San Diego, California. OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR. October 12, 2000.
5. Briggs, Charles L; Carla, Mantini-Briggs (2003). Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare. University of California Press. p. 352. ISBN 0-520-23031-0.
6. . La Jolla, California: University of California, San Diego. Cross Cultural Center. March 2, 2002. Archived from the original on February 4, 2015.
7. Derbovesplan, Elivra (March 2, 2015). "How the I-House Changed my Life". None.
8. Böhm, Christiane (August 11, 2017). "Hervorragendes Netzwerk". Göttinger Tageblatt. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
9. . Wawiwa Tech. October 24, 2021. Archived from the original on June 20, 2022. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
10. "Yosef Yehuda Sherman". Ohr Somayach. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
11. Chhetry, Anjan; Sherman, Joseph (April 20, 2009). "New Star and Blue Bio Negotiation: Merger and Acquisition Scenario". Social Science Research Network (Working Paper Series). Marseille, France: Social Science Electronic Publishing. doi:10.2139/ssrn.1392082. S2CID 167136531. SSRN 1392082.
12. Issamar, Ginzberg (April 9, 2012). "Tips for Entrepreneurs: The emperor's new clothes". The Jerusalem Post. During this time, I met an expert in Azerbaijani oil fields named Joseph Sherman, who has an MBA from Ecole de Management de Marseille.
13. Sherman, Joseph (September 2015). Euro-Mediterranean Corporate Financial Structures: Can the corporate financial structure create value to the corporation?. Marseille, France: Kedge Business School Research. p. 174. ISBN 978-1517161866.
14. Rosenberg, C. (May 17, 2017). . Mishpacha Magazine. Archived from the original on May 17, 2017. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
15. Aryeh Ehrlich; Rachel Ginsberg (May 19, 2015). . Mishpacha Magazine. Archived from the original on July 4, 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2015.
16. Deutsch, Gloria. "Yearning for acceptance". Features. No. July 26, 2012. Jerusalem Post.
17. Gray, Julie (February 15, 2015). "A Country Full of Characters". Jerusalem. The Times of Israel. The moment I met Joseph Sherman, I knew I had met yet another Israeli with a story. A real character. Joseph, who lives in Jerusalem, is a management consultant. He is also a Hasidic Jew from Southern California. His parents are fundamental Christians. Joseph, you see, is an Orthodox convert. He also has a Masters Degree in Corporate Finance that he earned at the Kedge Business School, in Marseille, France. Joseph is also an artist. He's been painting, he explained, since he was in college. While he was in business school, he traveled all over the world and drank in the art he saw in museums and in public spaces.
18. The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature. United Kingdom: European Humanities Research Centre. 2003. ISBN 9781900755771.
19. Ariey Ariley (May 29, 2014). "Yosef the Holy Avreich" (in Hebrew). Jerusalem, Israel: Mishpacha Magazine. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
20. "Intelligently and Enthusiastically Crowning Hashem". The Seymour J. Abrams Jerusalem World Center, headquarters of OU Israel. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
21. @OHR (March 21, 2015). "Yosef Yehudah Sherman". Jerusalem, Israel. Ohr Somayach International.
22. Hirsch, Tziyona (October 2016). "A Heroic Soul: Yosef Yehuda Sherman". The Jewish Press.
23. NEILE, CAREN S. (November 2015). "Words and Pictures" (PDF). Toastmasters Magazine: 12–13.
24. Avraham, Rachel (October 22, 2013). . Channel 2 News. Jerusalem Online News. Archived from the original on September 22, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
25. "From California to The Land of Israel" (in Yiddish). No. 34. Yiddish Tribune. June 10, 2015.
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31. Economy, Peter (May 22, 2015). "Men Are from Wikipedia and Women Are from Pinterest". Inc.com.
32. Economy, Peter. "4 Powerful Business Lessons from Michelangelo's David". Inc.com.
33. TRIGGS-MATTHEWS, TRACY (July 14, 2011). . Kenan–Flagler Business School i. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Archived from the original on February 27, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2014.
34. Knight, Rebecca (September 26, 2016). "Should You Talk About Politics at Work?". Harvard Business Review. Harvard Business Publishing.
35. "6 Social Media Mistakes Businesses Should Avoid - MBAPrograms.org". www.mbaprograms.org. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
36. Sherman, Joseph (May 13, 2013). "Pure and Simple: Has Strauss Water found the solution that the world needs to find clean drinking water?". The Jerusalem Post.
37. Sherman, Joseph J. (July 30, 2013). "High-Tech Aliya: A start-up immigrant shares secrets to success". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
38. Sherman, Joseph (October 3, 2013). "Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a Facebook match". Jerusalem Post.
39. Sherman, Joseph (July 25, 2016). "How the Internet of Things Enhances Our Day-to-Day Lives". Engadget.
40. Sherman, Joseph. "The Blogs". The Times of Israel.