Theodore Reich

ALS TDI's first contact with Ted and his wife, Wendy, was at a San Francisco ALS 101 in October 2007. Ted and Wendy attended the seminar because their 21-year-old son, Corey, who was a senior at Middlebury College at the time, had recently been diagnosed with ALS. Ted has been a CPA for the past 30+ years in the Bay Area. He formerly worked for Arthur Anderson, and has held his own firm for 20+ years. Ted's expertise is sought in many areas, including tax, generational planning, and business succession matters for families, and he is very well-connected in many California industries. At the end of 2007, Wendy and Corey visited ALS TDI's lab in Cambridge. Since then, the Reich family has been dedicated to fundraising solely for ALS TDI. In 2008, the Reich family generated over $400K through their first fundraising event, which is now an annual event called Corey's Crusade. Ted joined the new ALS TDI Advisory Council in January 2009 and the Board of Directors in April 2009. In 2009, Corey joined together with several other young people with ALS to create the "Young Faces of ALS" campaign. In 2011, the Reich family and their network helped launch the Young Faces of ALS campaign's first fundraising initiative, the National Corntoss Challenge. The Reich family continues to host the Bay Area Corntoss Challenge each summer in Piedmont, CA. In addition to his dedication to fundraising, Ted has provided support via pro bono legal services through one of his many contacts, Darin DeAngeli. Over the years, the Reich’s family and friends have hosted or participated in countless fundraising events in honor of Corey's Crusade. The Corey Reich Fund has raised over $9.75 million for research at ALS TDI.