The Headstrong Project is proud to welcome three dynamic additions to the organization's Board of Directors: Gregory Fishman, Umar Latif, MD, FAPA, and Matthew Zubrow.
Fishman, Dr. Latif, and Zubrow bring unique expertise and perspectives that will greatly benefit Headstrong’s mission to provide free, trauma-informed mental health treatment to America's service members, veterans, and their families.
Gregory Fishman
Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig
Gregory Fishman is the Co-Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig’s Los Angeles office. He represents public and private real estate companies, institutional investors, investment advisors, and financial institutions in connection with acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, ground leasing, financing, leasing and development across all property types, both domestically and internationally, including multi-family, student housing, office, medical office, seniors housing, self-storage, industrial, retail and hospitality.
Greg is a nationally recognized real estate lawyer and is individually ranked in Chambers USA, The Legal 500, and ILFR 1000. He is also a member of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Real Estate Practice which is a cornerstone of the firm and a recognized leader in the industry. Greg is a graduate of The Ohio State University and Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
A long-time advocate for Veteran’s rights, Greg has been an active participant in The Headstrong Project for nearly a decade and is honored to be a member of the Board.
Umar Latif, MD, FAPA
National Medical Director, Help for Heroes
Chair, Headstrong's Clinical Advisory Board
Umar Latif, MD is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology with triple board certification in General Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, and Addiction Medicine. He was selected as a George W. Bush Institute Scholar as part of the 2021 Stand-To Veteran Leadership program in service of improving veteran outcomes. Dr. Latif is the chair of The Headstrong Project’s Scientific Advisory Board, launching in 2025.
Dr. Latif currently serves as the National Medical Director of Help for Heroes, a multisite specialty program he helped design as co-founder, to meet the clinical needs of active-duty service members, veterans and first responders who are dealing with mental health and substance abuse issues. He also works as the Medical Director of Carrollton Springs Hospital and has a private practice at The Noesis Clinic: an adult and geriatric outpatient private practice that specializes in early detection of Alzheimer’s dementia and TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation).
Dr. Latif is a member of the Board of Directors of PsychArmor, a national nonprofit with the mission to transform the way our nation engages with the military and Veteran community through the power of education and training.
For a decade prior to this, Dr. Latif co-founded and served as the Medical Director of Freedom Care at UBH Denton, which he helped develop. Under his leadership, this program grew into a multi-location inpatient psychiatry program specializing in PTSD and dual diagnosis treatment for active-duty military members and veterans referred from 120 plus national & international installations.
His other professional roles in the past have included the position of Medical Director of the Telepsychiatry program at Dallas VA Medical Center, and faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Latif completed his residency training at Wayne State University in Michigan and fellowship training at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He subsequently completed postgraduate training in Executive Healthcare Leadership at Cornell University and Effective Writing for Healthcare at Harvard Medical School.
Matthew Zubrow
Vice President, Hepco Capital Management
Matthew Zubrow is an experienced investment professional, having worked across asset classes, including public markets, SPACs, private equity, venture capital, and debt transactions totaling in the billions of dollars. He currently serves as a Vice President at Hepco Capital Management, a multi-strategy asset manager based in New York. He is passionate about emerging markets and the power of capital access as a tool to facilitate economic growth in underdeveloped regions, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. He began his finance career in investment banking at Evercore Partners as an M&A Analyst.
Matthew is particularly passionate about mental health philanthropy, mentorship, and foreign policy. He dedicates much of his free time to these areas. In addition to serving on the board of the Headstrong Project, he is also a member of the non-profit boards of One Mind and the David Network. Matthew is an active participant in the work of the Milken Institute as a part of its Young Leaders Circle and is a Fellow at the Economic Club of New York. He graduated with Honors from Dartmouth College.
To learn more about The Headstrong Project's mission, visit www.theheadstrongproject.org.