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Gleb Sagitov, 27 Manager, Commercial Analytics, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Gleb Sagitov wasn’t sure he wanted to go into pharmaceuticals. But Regeneron, the Tarrytown-based biotechnology company that develops, manufactures, and markets life-saving medicines, has a prescription for go- getters like Sagitov: opportunity. “A lot of my success is due to the environment,” says Sagitov. “I love the company; I love the culture.” As manager of commercial analytics, Sagitov identifies markets and opportunities for drugs that treat eye disease, colorectal cancer, heart disease, and rare inflammatory conditions, among others. He started as a lab intern and was later hired in the finance group. The bosses liked Sagitov’s outside-the-box thinking and quickly learned he was a problem-solver. Sagitov loves that he is at the intersection of science and business. A common question— and primary motivator—for him and his colleagues is, “How do we most effectively get life-saving medicines and treatments to those who need them?” What, asks Sagitov, “can we do to get drugs commercialized and to the patients? We speak a common
language.”
—Jerry McKinstry
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Jake Roth, 17 Philanthropist, First Tee of Metropolitan New York
There are more holes in a round of golf than there are years in Jake Roth’s life. But that hasn’t stopped the 17-year-old from estab- lishing himself as one of Westchester’s youngest phi- lanthropists, with golf education as his cause. Over the past three years, he’s raised more than $30,000 for First Tee of Metropolitan New York, an organization that provides young golfers with affordable golf in- struction and teaches life lessons along the way. Ever since volunteering as a golf instructor for the First Tee when he was 12 years old, Roth wanted to find a way to raise money for the program. So, in 2013, he cre- ated the Tee It Up fundraiser, hosted by his family’s golf club, Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, which takes place every year on Columbus Day. Roth, who plays on his high school’s varsity golf team, begins planning for the annual event during the summer; he attends meetings with golf pros and club staff, orga- nizes the prizes and competitions for the event, and helps collect donations. “I have learned how reward- ing it can be to give back, how to plan for an event from beginning to end, and, mostly, how fortunate I am to play golf,” he says. —Gina Valentino