Jerry Speyer

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Jerry Speyer
Born (1940-06-23) June 23, 1940 (age 84)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Education Columbia University (BA, MBA)
Spouses
Lynn Tishman
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(m. 1964;div. 1987)​
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(m. 1991)​
Children3 with Tishman, including Rob
1 with Farley

Jerry I. Speyer (born June 23, 1940) is an American real estate developer. He is one of two founding partners of the New York real estate company Tishman Speyer, which controls Rockefeller Center. Speyer was featured in the Forbes 400 list in 2021. [1]

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Early life and education

Speyer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Germaine M. and Ernst A. Speyer. [2] According to a 1998 profile in The New York Times , "[Speyer's] mother is Swiss, and his father comes from one of the old Jewish families of Frankfurt" (however, there is only a very distant connection to the Speyer banking family, if any); his father, a shoe manufacturer, fled Germany in 1939, established a business in Milwaukee, before moving to New York when Jerry was three months old. [3] Speyer grew up in a cultured German-Jewish household on Riverside Drive. He graduated from the private Horace Mann School. At Columbia University, he majored in German literature and joined Zeta Beta Tau, a Jewish fraternity. He was a friend of Art Garfunkel and Sanford Greenberg, his roommates, and Michael Mukasey. [4] "Speyer was one of those people who were solid, and even solemn, at an age when others are still flailing and unsure of themselves." [5] Speyer graduated from Columbia College in 1962 and received an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1964. [6]

Career

Speyer began his career in 1964 as Assistant to the Vice President of Madison Square Garden. Speyer was President & CEO of Tishman Speyer since he formed the company together with his father-in-law Robert Tishman in 1978. [6]

Speyer was chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, [6] chairman of the Museum of Modern Art, [7] and vice chair on the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation. [6] Speyer is chair of the Executive Committee and chairman emeritus of Columbia University, chair emeritus of the Real Estate Board of New York, and past president of the Board of Trustees of the Dalton School. [8]

Speyer is on the board of Carnegie Hall, alongside Sanford Weill, the former chairman of Citigroup, with whom he has a close business relationship (see External Links below). [9] His other board affiliations include Siemens AG and the Real Estate Roundtable, and have included Yankee Global Enterprises and the Urban Land Institute. He is a member of the Economic Club of New York and the Council on Foreign Relations. [9]

Speyer is also chair emeritus of the Partnership for New York City, founded by David Rockefeller. [10]

Speyer has sat on the Board of Trustees of NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital since 2000, and has served as President of the Board since 2019, including during the COVID-19 crisis. [11]

Personal life

In 1964, Speyer married Lynn Tishman, [12] whose great-grandfather Julius Tishman founded Tishman Realty and Construction, of which Tishman Speyer is a spinoff. In 1987, they divorced (Lynn later married Harold R. Handler, who is retired as a senior partner in the New York law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett). [13] They had three children:

In 1991, Speyer married Katherine G. Farley, whom he had hired in 1984 to oversee international development. [12] They have a daughter, Laura Speyer (born 1992). [12] Farley graduated from Brown University in 1971, and with a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1976. She served as manager of new business development for East Asia and the Pacific for Turner International Industries before joining Tishman Speyer in 1984. She is a senior managing director at Tishman Speyer, responsible for the company's real estate activities in Latin America and for the company's expansion into other emerging markets, chairs the company's Compensation Committee, and is a member of the Management, Investment, and Executive Committees. She is chair of Lincoln Center's redevelopment and is on the executive committee of the International Rescue Committee, a refugee relief and resettlement organization, and is chair emeritus of Women in Need, which helps homeless women and children in New York City. She is a vice president of the Brearley School, and a member of the Board and Executive Committee of the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation. Farley has served on the boards of Lincoln Center Theater and the New York Philharmonic.

Recognition

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  2. ↑ "Paid Notice: Deaths SPEYER, GERMAINE M". The New York Times. 8 May 2003.
  3. ↑ "A Developer For the 90's: Big Projects, Little Flash". New York Times. October 8, 1995.
  4. ↑ "Old Friends". Columbia Magazine.
  5. ↑ Traub, James (December 20, 1998). "The Anti-Trump". New York Times. Retrieved November 23, 2008.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Jerry I. Speyer". Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  7. ↑ "Officers & Board of Trustees". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  8. ↑ Acitelli, Tom (30 May 2007). "Jerry Speyer Elected Chairman of MoMA". New York Observer. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  9. 1 2 Orden, Erica (19 June 2009). "Two for the Money". New York Magazine. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
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  11. ↑ "NYP.org About Us Governance and Leadership Board of Trustees" . Retrieved April 7, 2021.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 New York Times: "A Developer For the 90's: Big Projects, Little Flash" By BRETT PULLEY October 08, 1995
  13. 1 2 3 New York Times: "Anne-Cecilie Engell, Rob Speyer" November 18, 2008
  14. ↑ Tishman Speyer website: Valerie Peltier retrieved May 3, 2013
  15. ↑ New York Times: "ENGAGEMENTS; Valerie H. Speyer and Jeffrey R. Peltier July 19, 1992
  16. ↑ New York Times: "WEDDINGS; Jeffrey R. Peltier, Valerie H. Speyer January 24, 1993
  17. ↑ New York Times: "WEDDINGS; Jonathan Lipton and Holly Speyer" September 26, 1999
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