ADAM & FLORA HANFT Flora has lived in Port Washington for over 30 years, where both her sons went to school. She has had a long and successful creative career in advertising, working at the country’s largest agencies – like J. Walter Thompson – and the smallest and most creative, including Carl Ally where she worked on such business accounts as Federal Express. She has a particular talent for naming – a major focus of her current business – which extends from shampoos and lipstick colors to the organization that was known as “Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington” and is now “Residents Forward.” Flora has been a long-time Residents Board member and also served on the Board of Harbor Acres. She and her husband Adam have funded scholarships to enable kids who could not otherwise afford it to take College Board prep classes. As a longstanding Board Member of the Sands Point Preserve Conservancy, Adam has helped develop the organization’s strategy. He also sits on the Board of Scotts Miracle-Gro. Adam started as a comedy writer, but spent most of his career as a globally-known strategy, branding and trend authority, with a history of breakthrough campaigns for clients as diverse as Match.com, McKinsey, WeWork and, of course, Miracle-Gro. He was asked by then-candidate Barack Obama to join his digital team. Adam is an advisor to many early-stage start-ups in artificial intelligence, consumer goods, cybersecurity and fintech. He is co-author of “Dictionary of the Future,” is frequently interviewed, and contributes business and cultural commentary to FastCompany, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. Adam also served on the Board of Residents, as well as the Nassau County Sports Commission. After 9/11, he co-founded a non- profit “Keep America Flying” which included New York State, American Airlines and JetBlue. Together, Adam and Flora have a passion for traveling – Paris is a favorite destination – and collecting Outsider Art; several items from their collection were recently on display in a special exhibition at the Port Washington Public Library. Photo credit: Frank Maresca