Gary Torgow

Chair, Board of Trustees, Jewish Federations of North America

Gary Torgow serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees for Jewish Federations of North America. He is the Chairman of Huntington Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States of America, with over 210 billion in assets. Huntington Bank has over 1,000 offices and 20,000 colleagues with offices in thirty-seven states and is the number one SBA lender in the United States. The bank is co-headquartered in downtown Detroit, where Gary’s office is in the Chairman’s suite of the Huntington Tower. Mr. Torgow is Chairman of Business Leaders for Michigan, a roundtable of the top 100 CEOs and Chairpeople of the state’s leading companies. Gary also serves on the public company boards of DTE Energy and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, one of the state’s largest medical insurers. Gary serves as President of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah and is on the board of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, one of Michigan's largest philanthropic enterprises.

Gary is a graduate of Yeshiva University and Wayne State University School of Law, where he received the Distinguished Alumni Award, and has received honorary Doctorates from Alma College and Eastern Michigan University, where he served as commencement speaker at both university’s graduations. Gary is Chairman of the 2025 NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner, and was the recipient of the NAACP’s James Weldon Johnson Lifetime Achievement Award and the Urban League’s Distinguished Warrior Award.
 
Gary has led numerous and critical efforts to support communities all across the state, including leading the fundraising for the City of Detroit’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund, where over 250 million was raised for seven Detroit neighborhoods. Gary is the founder of the Sterling Group, a Detroit real estate and development company. He is the author of two books, Raising the Bar and Holy Warrior.