13 Facts About Nelson Peltz

Nelson Peltz was born on June 24,1942 and is an American billionaire businessman and investor.

Nelson Peltz is non-executive chairman of Wendy's Company, Sysco, and The Madison Square Garden Company.

Nelson Peltz was the youngest of their three children, and grew up in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn, a sub-section of the East New York neighborhood.

Nelson Peltz attended the undergraduate program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania starting in 1960, where he joined the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, but left school in 1963, without receiving a degree.

Nelson Peltz dropped out of the Wharton School with the intention of becoming a ski instructor in Oregon.

In 1979, Nelson Peltz sold Flagstaff's foodservice business division to a group of investors.

Since May 2022, Nelson Peltz has been a non-executive director at Unilever.

Nelson Peltz's son Brad Peltz was born on 1989 and was drafted by the Ottawa Senators hockey team, which Nelson Peltz himself was once rumored to have an interest in buying.

Nelson Peltz has been described as a "notable Republican donor", though he has described his own sympathies as centrist, saying "this country operates way better between center-right and center-left".

Nelson Peltz is a longtime friend and supporter of Democratic US Senator Joe Manchin, whom he has credited with "keeping our elected officials somewhere in the middle".

In 2005, Peltz was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second inauguration of President George W Bush.

Nelson Peltz has sat on the Board of Trustees of New York-Presbyterian Hospital since 2019.

Nelson Peltz was said by the National Association of Corporate Directors in 2010,2011, and 2012 to be among the most influential people in global corporate governance.