Jonathan Tisch

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Jonathan M. Tisch has been Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels since 1989, as well as being Co-Chairman of the Board and Member of the Office of the President of Loews Corporation, its parent company. He is the son of Founder Robert Tisch.

Tisch also holds positions as:

Chairman of the Travel Business Roundtable (TBR) [1], a travel industry lobbying group
Chairman of NYC & Company [2], New York City's official tourism marketing organization
Trustee of Tufts University.
Treasurer of the New York Giants Football Team

Tisch, who graduated from Tufts University in 1976, gave an endowed gift of $40 million dollars in 2006 to fund the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service.

In 2004 his work, The Power of We : Succeeding Through Partnerships (ISBN 0-471-74105-1), was published and became a national bestseller. His second book, Chocolates on the Pillow Aren't Enough: Reinventing the Customer Experience (ISBN 978-0-470-04355-4), was published in March 2007. It was recently named a finalist for the Quill Awards' "Best Business Book of the Year".

Currently, Jonathan Tisch is the host of "Open Exchange, Beyond the Boardroom with Jonathan Tisch," a series of one-on-one interviews with America’s preeminent CEOs and business people on Plum TV, a media network, and CNBC.

The Tisch family is one of America's wealthiest and influential, with assets in the billions which they control through their holding company, Loews Corporation.