After graduating from Union College in 2003, Adam Gleich came to Chicago in order to pursue a financial trading career at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. After four years, Mr. Gleich started his own private trading venture – Adam Gleich Trading – where he is still trading Eurodollar Futures today.

Mr. Gleich first became interested in refugee issues in his late teenage years when he did extensive research on the the Holocaust. The pinnacle of his studies brought him to the Concentration Camps of Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Treblinka, and also to the various Jewish ghettos of Poland. Since that time, Mr. Gleich has worked to keep alive the memory of the Holocaust, “Never Again,” by working with marginalized people of all races and ethnicities.

Mr. Gleich learned of RefugeeOne through his wife, Sarah Poole, who began volunteering for the organization in 2007 and is now a member of the Youth Program staff. Together, they have become more and more connected to RefugeeOne – falling in love with the refugees that are served through the agency’s various programs. Mr. Gleich joined the Board of Directors in 2008 with the hope of helping the Board reach its fullest potential.