Taste for a Cure
About Taste for a Cure
Thank you for celebrating with us!
Thank you for joining us on May 2, 2025 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for a very special evening honoring Ravi Ahuja, Chief Executive Officer, Sony Pictures Entertainment, as he accepted the Gil Nickel Humanitarian Award. Taste for a Cure 2025 was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, with a special musical performance by Luke Bryan.
Taste for a Cure unites the entertainment and epicurean communities and consistently ranks among the top ten culinary events in Southern California. Every year, we look forward to sharing this special evening, all while raising valuable funds for leading-edge cancer research at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
For information about purchasing tables or sponsorship for Taste for a Cure 2026, please contact Jacqui Farina at 310-989-4399 or [email protected]
Board of Directors
The UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation is guided by a Board of Directors representing community and business leaders united in the commitment to end cancer through research. View the Board of Directors roster
Taste for a Cure Co-Chairs
2025 Event Sponsors
Joe Cohen
Head of Television
Creative Artists Agency
E. Brian Dobbins
Talent Manager / Producer
Artist First
Jon Holman
President
The Holman Group
Jake Kasdan
Producer, Director, Writer, Filmmaker
James Myerson
Breakthru Beverage
Tendo Nagenda
Producer
Film Executive
Gary Newman
Executive Partner
Attention Capital
Erik Nickel
Partner
Far Niente Family of Wines
Keri Shahidi
Producer
7th Sun Productions
Sandra Stern
Vice Chairman
Lionsgate Television Group
Dana Walden
Co-Chairman
Disney Entertainment
Arthur Wayne
VP, Global Brand Marketing & Communication
Brooks Brothers
Premier Sponsors
UCLA Health
David Geffen School of Medicine
Bain & Company (Maureen Sullivan, Jeff Katzin, David Sanderson, David Hong)
Del Shaw Moonves
Jake Kasdan & Inara George
Erik Nickel & Michael Loftis
John Nickoll
Melinda Nordeng
Herbert and Bui Simon Foundation
Sony Pictures
Dana & Matt Walden
Wasserman Foundation
Wendy & Mike Wiley
Robert Zukin
Benefactor Sponsors
Nadia Allaudim & Andrew D'Amico
Alan Berro
Chami Family Foundation
Disney
Patricia Glaser
Ali Jassim
Meg & Lawrence Kasdan
Randy & Kathy Katz
Littlefield
Netflix
Linda Miller Savitt & Bob Savitt
Jay Sures/David Kramer/UTA
Patron Sponsors
Amazon MGM Studios
Marty Burbank
Ami & Joe Cohen
Content Partners (John Mass)
Creative Artists Agency
Lionsgate
Oren Bitan
Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LLP / Cinetic Media
Sandra Stern
Translational Research In Oncology-US (TRIO)
UCLA Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and UCLA Division of Gynecologic Oncology
UCLA Department of Surgical Oncology
UCLA Division of Hematology/Oncology
Friend Sponsors
3Arts
Artists First / Propagate
BBC
Gail Berman
Boston Consulting Group
Brooks Brothers / Arthur Wayne
Brian Dobbins & Chandra Arend
Embassy Row / Michael Davies
Jill & Mark Eshman
Eileen Coskey Fracchia & Don Fracchia
Dan Fogelman
Jim Freedman & Karine Joret
Gelfand, Rennert, & Feldman LLC
Gersh
Grace Ford Salvatori Foundation and Wanda Cannon
Megan Haller & Peter Rice
Jane & Michael Jonsson
Charles King/MACRO
Tomoko Matsumoto
Robert Morgenstern
Tendo Nagenda & Chelina Odbert
Gary & Jeanne Newman
RAINE
Stephen & Sherry Spector
William Tanner & Terre Steinbeck
Randy & Susanne Steinberg
UCLA Department of Head & Neck Surgery
UCLA Department of Medicine
UCLA Department of Radiation Oncology
Jordan & Sandra Walder
WME
Manizheh Yomtoubian / Persians 4 a Cure
Partners
ALL ROADS Pinseria + Enoteca
Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Breakthru Beverage / The Myerson Family
Brooks Brothers
Casa de Campo Resort & Villas
Cavcas Restaurant
Delta
Disneyland
Far Niente Family of Wines
Flowers in Beverly Hills
Hinoki and the Bird
Rosewood London
Shakespeare in the Park
Stafford Hotel London
Stanly Ranch, Auberge Resorts Collection
The Public Theater
UCLA Athletics
Media Partner
The Hollywood Reporter
Be a Sponsor of Taste for a Cure
For information about sponsorship for Taste for a Cure 2023, please contact Jacqui Farina via email or at 310-989-4399.