Marcella Kanfer Rolnick
Marcella Kanfer Rolnick is Executive Chair & Founding Partner of Walnut Ridge, a family office and private capital firm that supports the achievement of the investment, business, philanthropic, and multigenerational goals of the Kanfer family. She is also a Founding Director of Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah and a Director of Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation. Marcella focuses on vision, strategy, governance, and stewardship of values and culture.
Marcella proudly served as Executive Chair of GOJO, Makers of PURELL, successfully transitioning her family’s 80-year-old enterprise to its next chapter as part of The Clorox Company in April 2026. Keys to the family’s success: seeking possibilities for making the world better; being adaptable in a fast-changing world; team-based co-creation; great people; and non-stop learning.
Marcella also has served on a wide variety of for-profit and nonprofit boards. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School’s Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, which advances the scholarship and practice of flourishing enterprise. Active in nurturing Jewish life in her Brooklyn community, she is co-founder and leadership committee chair of Romemu Brooklyn, a spiritual home for all seekers, and co-founder and board chair of The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life. She also serves on the board of UJA/Federation of NY. Past non-profit board service includes The Senesh School, American Jewish World Service, and Jewish Funders Network.
Marcella earned her MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a BA from Princeton University’s School of Public & International Affairs. Marcella and her husband have three sons and a daughter and live in Brooklyn, NY; Cleveland, OH; and Chautauqua, NY.