Matthew Bronfman
{{Short description|American businessman and philanthropist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|7|16}}
| birth_place = New York City, United States
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| nationality = American
| alma_mater = Williams College, Harvard Business School
| parents = Edgar Bronfman Sr.
Ann Loeb Bronfman
| relatives = {{nowrap| Samuel Bronfman (grandfather)
John Langeloth Loeb Sr. (grandfather)
Nicholas M. Loeb (cousin)}}
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Fiona Woods|1982|Jun 1997}}
- {{marriage|Lisa Belzberg|Dec 1997|2002}}
- {{marriage|Stacey Kaye|Jan 2005|2016}}
- {{marriage|Melanie Lavie|2016}}
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| children = 9
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Matthew Bronfman (born July 16, 1959) is an American businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist. A member of the Bronfman family, he is the son of prominent businessman and philanthropist Edgar Bronfman Sr.{{cite news|last=Linde |first=Steve |url=http://www.jpost.com/Features/Magazine-Features/Matthew-Bronfman-Top-US-businessman-in-love-with-Israel |title=Matthew Bronfman: Top US businessman in love with Israel |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=May 23, 2012 |accessdate=August 15, 2015}}
Biography
Bronfman is one of seven children, one of five from Ann (Loeb) and Edgar Miles Bronfman. His mother was the daughter of John Langeloth Loeb Sr. (a Wall Street investment banker whose company was a predecessor of Shearson Lehman/American Express) and Frances Lehman (a member of the Lehman family that founded the Lehman Brothers banking firm). They divorced in 1973.{{cite web|title=Ann L. Bronfman: Obituary|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=150140174|work=Legacy.com|publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=24 December 2013|date=April 10, 2011}}
Bronfman attended the Cardigan Mountain School, the Taft School, and graduated from Williams College in 1981. After working at Goldman Sachs he attended Harvard Business School, where he graduated in 1985. Bronfman began his career at Goldman Sachs and the Cadillac Fairview Corporation.
As one of the largest American Jewish investors in the Israeli economy, Bronfman is also a shareholder in IKEA Israel, Israel Discount Bank and the Shufersal supermarket chain. He is also the chairman and CEO of BHB holdings, a family holding company. Previously, He was a managing director at ACI Holdings, a private equity firm based in New York.{{cite web|url=http://www.acicapital.com/team_m_bronfman.html |title=Team |publisher=ACI Capital |date= |accessdate=August 15, 2015}}
He is a former director of Jenny Craig, BizBash Media Inc., Palace Candles, Inc., EARNEST Partners, LLC, Tweeter Home Entertainment Group Inc., and James River Group, Inc.
Philanthropy
Bronfman is the chairman of the international steering committee of Limmud FSU, a program focused on strengthening the Jewish identities of Russian-speaking Jews, and the chairman of the American Jewish Committee’s ACCESS, which trains Jewish professionals to shape public opinion and policy around the world. He is also the managing principal of the Treetops Foundation, a charity focused on Jewish philanthropy and is on the boards of 92nd Street Y and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Personal life
Bronfman has been married four times. He married first wife Fiona (née Woods) in 1982, and they separated in 1993 and finalized their divorce in June 1997.{{Cite web |title=Matthew Bronfman |url=https://www.myheritage.com/names/matthew_bronfman |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=www.myheritage.com}}{{Cite news |date=1993-11-18 |title=Article clipped from Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news/55199120/ |access-date=2024-02-01 |work=Daily News |pages=536}}{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/johnlloebf004 |title=John L. Loeb Collection |others=Leo Baeck Institute Archives}}{{Cite news |last=Bumiller |first=Elisabeth |date=1998-05-08 |title=PUBLIC LIVES; Using Grit and Glitz to Bring Aid to Schools |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/08/nyregion/public-lives-using-grit-and-glitz-to-bring-aid-to-schools.html |access-date=2024-02-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} They had three children, Eli Miles, Jeremy Samuel, and Gabriela Talia.{{Cite web |title=Bronfman v. Bronfman, 229 A.D.2d 314 {{!}} Casetext Search + Citator |url=https://casetext.com/case/bronfman-v-bronfman |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=casetext.com}}{{Cite web |title=Bronfman v. Bronfman |url=https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/bronfman-v-bronfman-885498701 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=vLex |language=en}} In December 1997, he married Lisa Belzberg, daughter of Samuel Belzberg and sister-in-law of Strauss Zelnick, while she was eight and a half months pregnant with their second child. They met through Les Wexner's religious studies course at Wexner's Heritage Foundation. They divorced in 2002 and had three children,{{cite news|url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/columns/classaction/447/|work=New York|title=Tutoring Tycoons|author=Robert Kolker|accessdate=July 22, 2013}}{{cite news|url=http://www.nysun.com/on-the-town/celebrating-10-years-of-aiding-public-schools/11802/|work=New York Sun|title= Celebrating 10 Years Of Aiding Public Schools – Profile: Lisa Belzberg|author=Ruth Graham|date=April 6, 2005|accessdate=August 15, 2013}} Sasha Eliana, Tess Emanuella, and Ezekiel "Zeke" Belzberg. In January 2005, he wed Stacey Kaye on the island of Anguilla, and they divorced in 2016 with one child, Coby Benjamin.{{cite web|url=http://forward.com/articles/3283/another-bronfman-makes-his-mark/|work=The Jewish Daily Forward|title=Another Bronfman Makes His Mark|author=Nathaniel Popper|date=April 15, 2005|accessdate=August 15, 2013}}{{Cite web |date=2005-01-12 |title=Out & About |url=https://www.nysun.com/article/out-and-about-out-about-2005-01-12 |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=The New York Sun |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sunrise Partners Ltd. v. Rouse Props., Inc., C.A. No. 12609-VCS {{!}} Casetext Search + Citator |url=https://casetext.com/case/sunrise-partners-ltd-v-rouse-props-inc |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=casetext.com}} In April 2017, he married Israeli Melanie Lavie, with whom he had two children, James Raphael and Stella Ann.[https://www.pressreader.com/israel/jerusalem-post/20170412/282046211960776 Press Reader: "Bronfman Wedding"] April 12, 2017{{Cite news|last=Tsur|first=Shlomit|authorlink=|title= Advertising tycoon Eyal Chomsky is leasing an apartment in the 17 Rothschild project to Bronfman who recently married Israeli Melanie Lavie|newspaper=Globes|date= February 25, 2018|url=http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-matthew-bronfman-leases-rothschild-17-tel-aviv-apartment-1001225243|accessdate=}}
He currently resides in Manhattan.[http://www.belr.com/leadership/matthew-bronfman-chairman Bronfman E.L. Rothschild website: "Matthew Bronfman (Chairman) - Chairman & CEO, BHB Holdings LLC] retrieved october 28, 2015 His sons Jeremy and Eli founded Lincoln Avenue Capital, a real estate investor and developer in affordable housing.{{cite news |last=Madans Welk |first=Hannah |date=November 16, 2020 |title=Lincoln Avenue Capital Issues Wake-Up Call for Affordable Housing |url=https://labusinessjournal.com/news/2020/nov/16/lincoln-avenue-capital-issues-wake-call-affordable/ |work=Los Angeles Business Journal |location= |access-date=}}{{cite news |last=Henerson |first=Evan |date=May 27, 2020 |title=Building Homes, Changing Lives: Lincoln Avenue Capital's Jeremy and Eli Bronfman's Vision for Affordable Housing |url=https://jewishjournal.com/cover_story/316321/building-homes-changing-lives-lincoln-avenue-capitals-jeremy-eli-bronfmans-vision-for-affordable-housing/ |work=Jewish Journal |location= |access-date=}} His son, Zeke, is the cofounder and CEO of XED Beverages.{{cn|date=April 2023}}
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Category:American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Category:Family of Carl M. Loeb
Category:Williams College alumni
Category:Harvard Business School alumni
Category:Businesspeople from New York City
Category:Philanthropists from New York (state)