Matthew Bronfman Biography
Matthew Bronfman is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the son of a prominent businessman and philanthropist Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Matthew Bronfman Age
Matthew Bronfman was born in New York City, United States on July 16, 1959. He is 59 years as of 2018.
Matthew Bronfman Family
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.
Bronfman 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.
Matthew Bronfman Wives
Bronfman has quite a long history of marriages. He has been married four times. His first wife was Fiona Woods; they divorced in June 1997. They had three children: Gabriela Talia Bronfman, Eli Miles Bronfman, and Jeremy Samuel Bronfman.
He married Lisa Belzberg in December 1997. Liza is the daughter of Canadian businessman Samuel Belzberg, with whom he has three children: Sasha Eliana Bronfman, Tess Emanuella Bronfman, and Ezekiel Belzburg Bronfman.
In 2005, he married Stacey Kaye with whom he had one child, Coby Benjamin Bronfman. He and Stacey divorced in 2016.
In April 2017, he married Israeli Melanie Lavie with whom he had his eighth son, James Raphael Bronfman. Currently, he resides in Manhattan. His son, Jeremy, is an advisor to the technology company Enigma Technologies.
Matthew Bronfman Career
As Bronfman is the main shareholder in IKEA Israel, Israel Discount Bank, and the Shufersal supermarket chain. Additionally, he’s one of the largest American Jewish investors in the Israeli economy. 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.
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
Matthew Bronfman is the chairman of the international steering committee of Limmud FSU. This is a program focused on strengthening the Jewish identities of Russian-speaking Jews (in spite of the fact that from April 17, 2019, Limmud FSU is famous for its antireligious company on Moscow. .) Also is 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.
Matthew Bronfman Net Worth
He has quite a number of companies and is a man who makes money from all his works. However, his estimated net worth is still under review.
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Matthew Bronfman buys Tel Aviv apartment for NIS 50m
The final apartment in the Meier on Rothschild luxury tower in Tel Aviv has been sold to American Jewish billionaire Matthew Bronfman, sources inform “Globes.” Bronfman is paying NIS 50 million for the duplex apartment on the 38th and 39th floors of the high-rise residential tower at the corner of Allenby Street and Rothschild Boulevard. The 540 square meter apartment has its own internal elevator and faces south and west.
New York-born Bronfman is the controlling shareholder in IKEA Israel and is the former controlling shareholder in Israel Discount Bank(TASE: DSCT) and Israel’s Blue Square Real Estate.
In April 2017, Bronfman married an Israeli, Melanie Lavie and they have a son James Raphael and the family are now expected to make their permanent home in Israel. Bronfman, who has seven children from his three ex-wives, has reportedly put his current home at 400 Park Avenue South in Manhattan on the market for $12.5 million.
At the beginning of 2018, “Globes” reported that Bronfman was renting the Rothschild 17 apartment of ad executive Eyal Chomski for an estimated NIS 30,000 per month.
Developed by Berggruen Residential Ltd.(TASE: BRGN.B1), Meier on Rothschild has 100 apartments, including six penthouses and duplexes, on 42 floors in the heart of Tel Aviv. Berggruen bought the land in 2006 for NIS 126 million and marketing of the high-end luxury residential project began in 2007 and with the sale of the final unit has now been completed.
You can get the full article from: en.globes.co.il
