Mr. Borynack is Chairman and CEO of Wally Findlay Galleries International, Inc., founded as Findlay Galleries in 1870. America’s second-oldest art gallery is celebrating its 154th Anniversary. An alumnus of the Parsons School of Design, he joined Wally Findlay Galleries in 1972 and acquired their international company in 1998.
Mr. Borynack is a lifetime member of the Board of Directors of Bellevue Hospital Center’s Children of Bellevue and was awarded the Los Nino’s Image Award for Philanthropy by New York’s Committee for Hispanic Children and Families. He was a Board Development Chair of the American Ballet Theatre, an advisor to the NY State Prison in Art Programs and a member of the President’s Council of the New School. Mr. Borynack served on the Board of Directors for the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and The Manhattan Jewish Health Services for Hospice. He chaired the National Hospice Foundation and its Board of Governors and was a Board Member of the Trustbridge Hospice Foundation of Palm Beach and Broward Counties. The Hope for Depression Research Foundation honored Mr. Borynack and his partner, Adolfo Zaralegui, with their HOPE Corporate Visionary Award.
Currently, he is an Ambassador’s Circle member of the World Jewish Congress and serves as president of the US Committee for UNESCO. He is also the Chairman of the Palm Beach Symphony, a member of the United Way’s Tocqueville Society and serves on the United Way of Palm Beach board of directors. Borynack is also a member of the Social Register Foundation Advisory Committee, a Director of the Palm Beach Civic Association and a Trustee of the Palm Beach Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adults. He is a founding Trustee of the American Foundation for the Pontifical Institute of Theology at Posillipo (Naples, Italy), a sustaining member of the Patrons of The Vatican Museums and an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.
In 2023, he received the Distinctive Bishop’s Charity Medal presented by The Most Reverend Gerald M. Barbarito, Bishop of the Diocese of Palm Beach. He was also honored with the Lighthouse Guild Visionary Award, and at the 32nd Annual Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award Dinner in March, Borynack was presented with the Distinguished Citizen Award, the highest accolade bestowed by the Town of Palm Beach United Way.
