Jerry Speyer is one of two founding partners of the New York real estate company Tishman Speyer, which controls Rockefeller Center.
15 Facts About Jerry Speyer
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Jerry Speyer grew up in a cultured German-Jewish household on Riverside Drive.
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Jerry Speyer was a friend of Art Garfunkel and Sanford Greenberg, his roommates, and Michael Mukasey.
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Jerry Speyer began his career in 1964 as Assistant to the Vice President of Madison Square Garden.
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Jerry Speyer was chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, chairman of the Museum of Modern Art, and vice chair on the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation.
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Jerry 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.
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Jerry Speyer is on the board of Carnegie Hall, alongside Sanford Weill, the former chairman of Citigroup, with whom he has a close business relationship.
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Jerry Speyer is a member of the Economic Club of New York and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Jerry Speyer is chair emeritus of the Partnership for New York City, founded by David Rockefeller.
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In 1964, Jerry Speyer married Lynn Tishman, whose great-grandfather Julius Tishman founded Tishman Realty and Construction, of which Tishman Jerry Speyer is a spinoff.
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In 1991, Speyer married Katherine G Farley, whom he had hired in 1984 to oversee international development.
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Jerry Speyer served as manager of new business development for East Asia and the Pacific for Turner International Industries before joining Tishman Speyer in 1984.
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Jerry Speyer 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.
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Jerry Speyer 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.
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Jerry Speyer is a vice president of the Brearley School, and a member of the Board and Executive Committee of the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation.