Matthew Bronfman

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Matthew Bronfman
Born (1959-07-16) July 16, 1959 (age 65)
New York City, United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Williams College, Harvard Business School
Spouses
Fiona Woods
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(m. 1982⁠–⁠1997)​
Lisa Belzberg
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(m. 1997⁠–⁠2002)​
Stacey Kaye
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(m. 2005⁠–⁠2016)​
Melanie Lavie
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(m. 2016)​
Children9
Parent(s) Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Ann Loeb Bronfman
Relatives Samuel Bronfman (grandfather)
John Langeloth Loeb Sr. (grandfather)
Nicholas M. Loeb (cousin)

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. [1]

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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. [2]

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. [1] 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. [3]

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. [1] 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 [3] 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. [4] [5] [6] [7] They had three children, Eli Miles, Jeremy Samuel, and Gabriela Talia. [8] [9] 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, [10] [11] 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. [12] [13] [14] In April 2017, he married Israeli Melanie Lavie, with whom he had two children, James Raphael and Stella Ann. [15] [16]

He currently resides in Manhattan. [17] His sons Jeremy and Eli founded Lincoln Avenue Capital, a real estate investor and developer in affordable housing. [18] [19] His son, Zeke, is the cofounder and CEO of XED Beverages.[ citation needed ]

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  2. ↑ "Ann L. Bronfman: Obituary". Legacy.com. The New York Times. April 10, 2011. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Team". ACI Capital. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Matthew Bronfman". www.myheritage.com. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  5. ↑ "Article clipped from Daily News". Daily News. 1993-11-18. p. 536. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  6. ↑ John L. Loeb Collection. Leo Baeck Institute Archives.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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  15. ↑ Press Reader: "Bronfman Wedding" April 12, 2017
  16. ↑ Tsur, Shlomit (February 25, 2018). "Advertising tycoon Eyal Chomsky is leasing an apartment in the 17 Rothschild project to Bronfman who recently married Israeli Melanie Lavie". Globes .
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  18. ↑ Madans Welk, Hannah (November 16, 2020). "Lincoln Avenue Capital Issues Wake-Up Call for Affordable Housing". Los Angeles Business Journal.
  19. ↑ Henerson, Evan (May 27, 2020). "Building Homes, Changing Lives: Lincoln Avenue Capital's Jeremy and Eli Bronfman's Vision for Affordable Housing". Jewish Journal.
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