Our Staff

Joel Greenbaum,  President and CEO

Joel Greenbaum brings a diversity of both private and public sector experience to ESC- Florida. After college, Joel worked as a professional musician/arranger/composer in New York City. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Award to compose a piece for jazz ensemble and orchestra. While in NYC, he built and served as President of Evergreen Recording, a professional recording studio, where he worked on recordings with artists such as John Lennon, Herbie Hancock, Harry Belafonte Hugh Masekela, Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and many more.

After volunteering with various nonprofit organizations, Joel decided to reconcile his social conscience with his work skills. As a result, he transitioned into nonprofit management, where he served as the Executive Director of Youth Resource Development Corporation in Poughkeepsie, NY. While there, Joel was at the forefront of the national service program, AmeriCorps, and was a founding member and Treasurer of the New York State Corps Collaboration, a statewide collaboration of youth service and conservation corps, and the 4^th largest AmeriCorps Program in the country. Joel later moved with his family to Fort Lauderdale, FL, where he worked as the Executive Director of Leadership Broward Foundation.

In moving to Florida, Mr. Greenbaum’s childhood love for the sport of tennis was rekindled, and he jumped back into the private sector, where he founded and served as President of Match Point Tennis, a retail and e-commerce tennis store with 3 locations in South Florida. In 2017, after operating Match Point Tennis for 16 years, Joel sold the business so he could once again utilize his unique skill set, passion, and experience to assist South Florida’s nonprofit community. Joel brings his expertise and experience to ESC-South Florida in business development, leadership training, board development, strategic planning, marketing & communications, and fundraising, among others. Mr. Greenbaum obtained a B.S. from New York University and holds several additional nonprofit certifications.

Alexa Vetter Torres, Operations and Support Manager

Alexa Vetter Torres has a professional background in nonprofit and arts administration. Before joining the ESC-FL team, Alexa spent four years as Casting and Hiring Coordinator at Florida Studio Theatre (FST), a nonprofit performing arts center with five theaters in downtown Sarasota. During her tenure at FST, she was responsible for hiring and human resources both on and off stage. Additional work experience includes recruitment, administrative, and marketing duties for her alma mater, Coastal Carolina University Department of Theatre, and many years as the Personal Assistant to Catherine Schreiber, a five-time Tony Award-winning and a one-time Olivier Award-winning Broadway producer.

Born and raised in Austin, TX, Alexa earned a BFA in Musical Theatre from CCU and has performed professionally in plays and musicals across the country since she was a teen. In 2019, after spending five years in New York City, Ms. Vetter Torres relocated to Sarasota, where she resides with her husband Louis and their pets – a cat named Twix and a dog named Trouble.