Julieanne Nicole Herskowitz and Varun Singhal were married May 18 at Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, N.Y. Rabbi Anna Rose Sugarman officiated.
The couple each received a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, she in city and regional planning, he in computer science.
Mrs. Singhal, 34, is a vice president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation in Manhattan, where she leads public-private planning and development projects for the Borough of Brooklyn, including the East New York Industrial Business Zone Planning Study. She graduated from Haverford College. In 2014, she was an urban and regional policy fellow of the United States German Marshall Fund, during which she did research on London’s infrastructure financing models and how it could relate to New York.
She is a daughter of Wanda Quintana and Dr. Michael M. Herskowitz of Brooklyn. The bride’s father is a vascular and trauma interventional radiologist at SUNY Downstate and Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, and a clinical associate professor of radiology at the State University of New York Health Science Center of Brooklyn. Her mother is a bilingual licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Manhattan and Brooklyn. She focuses on early childhood developmental disorders and parent-child relationships, and has developed model treatment programs emphasizing child-parent attachments working with immigrant parents in Head Start and hospital programs in Brooklyn and Queens.
Mr. Singhal, also 34, is a senior vice president of AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory reporting, data and risk management software for financial services firms, in Manhattan. He is the global head of product management for the data lineage, trade and transaction software. He graduated from the Institute of Technology & Management in Gurgaon, India, and received an M.B.A. from Columbia.
He is the son of Uma Singhal and Parveen Singhal of Mumbai, India. The groom’s mother was a stay-at-home parent. His father is the chief commodity strategist at the Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai. Until 2017, he was the president and whole-time director of the Multi Commodity Exchange of India, an independent commodity exchange there.
The couple were introduced in August 2017 through the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel, and soon began dating. Mr. Singhal, an avid fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, said he knew Ms. Herskowitz was the one when she lost her voice rooting for the Eagles during the 2018 Super Bowl. Her primary allegiance, though, is with the New York Giants.
