Hal Rubenstein & David Nickle
Co-Chairmen

Hal Rubenstein and David Nickle have been residents of the Fire Island Pines community for more than ten years.  Rubenstein is the fashion editor of InStyle Magazine.  He is also a frequent contributor to various style television shows and a highly respected food critic in New York City.  Nickle is a VP in AECOM’s civil engineering deparment. 

Rubenstein and Nickle are responsible for organizing many exciting Fund in the Sun events, including exclusive shopping events at JCrew and Polo Ralph Lauren and a glorious intimate concert in the Pines with Bernadette Peters.  Rubenstein is the producer of the yearly Ascension Journal, in which he brings together noteworthy editorial content with an impressive group of advertisers. 

Rubenstein and Nickle also created a new event in 2009 called Shopping on Sunday, where donated luxury fashions were sold to raise funds for charity.  Their continued work with Fund in the Sun events allows for considerable donations to be made each year to a select group of charities.

Tony Roncalli & Eric von Kuersteiner
Founders

Tony Roncalli and Eric von Kuersteiner have been residents of Fire Island Pines for more than ten years.  Roncalli, a partner in a law firm, and von Kuersteiner, a successful real estate developer, came upon the opportunity to purchase most of the commercial district in the Pines in 2003.  They are responsible for reinventing the travel and tourism efforts of the community and rebuilding and renovating the harbor businesses. 

Roncalli and von Kuersteiner developed Fund in the Sun as a way to give back to the Pines and charities that are of interest to the community.  They took on Bay Dance, with the help of the LGBT Center of New York and created a brand, new event called Ascension, which benefits the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, of which von Kuersteiner is a board member.

Ascension and Bay Dance raise considerable funds for the charities and have gained global attendance and recognition.  Though have passed on the Pines properties to new hands, they will continue their work with Fund in the Sun to ensure that the two most anticipated events of summer remain enjoyable for the community and financially successful for the charities.