Jerry Speyer

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Jerry Speyer

Jerry I. Speyer (born on 23 June 1940 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is one of two founding partners of the prominent New York real estate company Tishman Speyer, the current owner of the Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center.

1 Biography
2 Career
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Speyer graduated from Columbia College in 1962 and Columbia University's Graduate School of Business in 1964.

Speyer is married to the socially connected Katherine G. Farley, who sits on the Executive Committee of Lincoln Center.

[edit] Career

Speyer has been President and CEO since the formation of Tishman Speyer in 1978.

Speyer is deputy chair and a member of the Executive Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; a vice chairman of the New York Presbyterian Hospital; vice chair, Board of Trustees, Rand Corporation and chair of the Executive Committee; 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.

Speyer is also vice chairman of the Museum of Modern Art and chair emeritus of the influential Partnership for New York City, founded by David Rockefeller.

Speyer sits 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). His other board affiliations include Siemens AG and the Real Estate Roundtable. He is a member of the Economic Club of New York and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

On 17 October 2006, Speyer signed a deal to buy Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, 12,232 apartments in 110 buildings along the East River in Manhattan, for US$5.4 billion. [1]

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Tishman Speyer official site;
New York's Cultural Power Brokers New York Times article on Jerry Speyer of Tishman Speyer Properties and his many connections to Sanford Weill and David Rockefeller.