Robert G. Rose
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Mendham, NJ
Bob has been a life-long collector beginning at age seven in 1950. He has fond memories as a teenager of attending FIPEX, as well as many ASDA shows at the 71st Infantry Regiment Armory in New York and numerous visits to Nassau Street. While attending graduate school at Columbia University, he worked at Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries and assisted in writing up the Lilly, Neinken and Katherine Matthies collections for auction. Following graduation from law school, he pursued a successful 40-year career as an attorney while always remaining an active collector and a supporter of organized philately. He has been a member of The Philatelic Foundation’s Board for 20 years and served as its secretary and vice-chair before his election as Chair in 2012.
Bob serves as a governor of The Collectors Club, a Board member of the United States Stamp Society, and holds memberships in the American Philatelic Society, the United States Philatelic Classics Society, the Association of Philatelic Exhibitors and the Royal Philatelic Society of London in which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal. He currently serves as the President of the New Jersey Postal History Society and as co-editor of its award winning quarterly journal, NJPH, to which he has contributed many articles. He has served since 2000 as Chair of NOJEX, an annual WSP show and was a member of the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum’s Council of Philatelists for over a decade. For the last 35 years, he has collected and exhibited New Jersey stampless covers in both domestic and international shows.
Daniel J. Ryterband
New York, NY
Daniel and his wife live in suburban New York City and have three children. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FW Cook & Co., which provides consulting services to corporate boards in the areas of executive compensation, human resources strategy and corporate governance. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. He also holds several professional designations related to executive compensation and employee benefits.
He has numerous collecting interests including US Classics on and off cover, U.S. Civil War postal history, U.S. free franks, and early inland waterway covers. He maintains specialist collections of the U.S. 1847 issue, the U.S. 1930 Graf Zeppelin issue and several other 20th century U.S. issues. Dan is an avid exhibitor and has formed multiple award winning 8-frame and single-frame displays. He is a member of the American Philatelic Society, the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, the Civil War Philatelic Society, the United States Stamp Society, the Club de Monte Carlo, the Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada, and several other specialist societies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society of London, a governor of the Collectors Club in New York City, and a member of the Council of Philatelists at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum. Dan served for many years as the Treasurer of the Philatelic Foundation and has served as the Chair of the Foundation’s Overturns Committee since its formation.
George J. Kramer
Chairman Emeritus, Clifton, NJ
George attended the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School and graduated in 1958. Since, he has been a successful builder of homes and apartments for over 40 years.
He is widely known in the philatelic world, at both national and international levels. He was the Chairman of the Philatelic Foundation from 2005-2011. Over the years, he has held numerous posts and positions in the American Philatelic Society and has been a 5-time U.S. Commissioner to International stamp shows assisting exhibitors from the United States. George is a well-known author of “United States Telegraph Stamps and Franks” (1992) and co-author, along with Richard C. Frajola and Steven C. Walske, of “The Pony Express: a Postal History” (2005).
His accolades include signing the Role of Distinguished Philatelists (2005) and the Luff Award (2013) for Exceptional Contributions to Philately. His collecting interests have garnered international attention having won the Grand Prix National (Pacific 1997), Grand Prix (Australia 2005) and Grand Prix d'honeur (Brazil 2013) for his U.S. Domestic Mails, 1776-1869. He is also a 9-time Champion of Champions participant, with 6 different collections, having won this prestigious title on three occasions.
Unfortunately George left us in December 2025.
Mark Schwartz
Philadelphia, PA
Mark retired in 2008 as Senior Director of Global Product Strategy at GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceuticals after a 37-year career that spanned organic chemistry, product marketing and strategic planning.
Mark’s philatelic collecting interests focus primarily on the postal history of Boston and Essex County, Mass; the NY Postmaster Provisional; and transatlantic mail. He has written articles for the Chronicle of the U.S. Classic Postal Issues; the London Philatelist; the Collectors’ Club Philatelist; the American Philatelic Congress Book; the India Post; and the Massachusetts Spy. Mark is a member of the American Philatelic Society; the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society; the Postal History Society; the Carrier & Locals Society; the New York Collectors Club; and the Greater Philadelphia Stamp & Collectors Club. He serves as a member of CANEJ; and the boards of the American Philatelic Society; Philatelic Foundation; the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society; the American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors; and the Institute of Analytical Philately.
Andrew Titley
Dallas, Texas
Andrew Titley is a lifelong and careerlong philatelist entering into the industry straight out of graduating from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). He currently holds the position of Vice President at Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries International. In addition to having a strong working knowledge of philately in general, Andrew specializes in the British Commonwealth. He is responsible for all aspects of the Worldwide portion of Siegel Auctions including building collections and advising clients, procuring consignments, valuing collections, and lot describing for auctions.
Andrew is a member of numerous societies, including the American Philatelic Society, Royal Philatelic Society of London, U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, among many others. In 2022, he was named one of the Linn’s Stamp News Most Influential Philatelists. You can often find him traveling throughout the United States and the world attending stamp shows and visiting clients.
Andrew resides in Dallas, Texas, along with his wife Hannah and their two young children. He is a serious collector of World War II prisoner of war mail in the Asian theatre and the topical of elephants on stamps.