Rabbi Sholem Fishbane serves as the Director of Kashrus for the Chicago Rabbinical Council (cRc), as well as the Executive Director of the Associated Kashrus Organizations (AKO), an umbrella group of major kosher-certifying agencies. Rabbi Fishbane attended Telshe Yeshiva in Chicago and Yeshivas Mir in Yerushalyem. Before moving back to Chicago he served as the Rabbi of the Saranac Synagogue in Buffalo, New York. He has received Smicha from Rabbi Yitzchak Kolitz, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Telshe Yeshiva, Chicago; Mirrer Yeshiva; as well as Reb Zalman Nechamia Goldberg.