{{short description|American businessman (born 1953)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Jonathan M. Tisch | image = Jonathan_Tisch_at_the_2009_Tribeca_Film_Festival.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Tisch in 2009 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|12|7}} | birth_place = Atlantic City, New Jersey, US<ref name="Interview with The Real Deal">{{cite web | url=http://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/the-closing-with-jonathan-tisch/ | title=The Closing: Jonathan Tisch on power breakfasts and never winning an Emmy | publisher=The Real Deal, Inc. | work=Newspaper Interview | date=1 May 2013 | access-date=7 April 2016 | author=Clarke, Katherine}}</ref> | death_date = | education = Tufts University | occupation = Businessman | known_for = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | boards = | spouse = Laura Steinberg (divorced)<br>Lizzie Rudnick (2007–)<ref>{{cite web |title=Tisch, Jonathan Mark, 1953-present |url=https://dl.tufts.edu/concern/rcrs/vh53x617w#:~:text=Tisch%20married%20Laura%20Steinberg%20in,He%20has%20no%20children. |website=dl.tufts.edu |publisher=Tufts University |access-date=10 August 2024 |archive-date=August 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240810002330/https://dl.tufts.edu/concern/rcrs/vh53x617w#:~:text=Tisch%20married%20Laura%20Steinberg%20in,He%20has%20no%20children. |url-status=live }}</ref> | children = | mother = Joan Tisch | father = Preston Robert Tisch | relatives = | signature = Jonathan Tisch signature.svg }}
'''Jonathan Mark Tisch''' (born December 7, 1953) is an American businessman and a son of billionaire Preston Robert Tisch, who was co-owner of luxury hospitality company Loews Hotels and of the New York Giants football team. Tisch inherited co-ownership of both.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jonathan M. Tisch|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=285942&privcapId=285930|website=Bloomberg L.P.|access-date=January 28, 2019|archive-date=January 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129010131/https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=285942&privcapId=285930|url-status=live}}</ref>
Tisch is a philanthropist who serves as a board member of the Tribeca Film Institute.
== Career == Tisch graduated from Tufts University in 1976.
In 1989, Tisch was named chairman of Loews Hotels, a wholly owned subsidiary of Loews Corporation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4247308 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502003651/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4247308 |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 2, 2009 |title=Loews Hotels, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek |publisher=Investing.businessweek.com |access-date=2012-05-22}}</ref> The following year, he launched the Loews Hotels Good Neighbor Policy.<ref name=book>{{cite book |last1=Hudson |first1=Simon |last2=Hudson |first2=Louise |date=September 30, 2017 |title=Customer Service in Tourism and Hospitality |page=29 |publisher=Goodfellow Publishers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ripbDwAAQBAJ&q=Tisch+initiated+the+Loews+Hotels+Good+Neighbor+Policy+over+20+years+ago |isbn=978-1911396475}}</ref>
Tisch serves as chairman emeritus of the U.S. Travel Association, the national non-profit association representing all segments of the multibillion-dollar travel industry. For six years, he served as chairman of NYC & Company, the city's official tourism marketing agency and convention and visitors bureau.<ref name="Walnut Hill Media">{{cite web |title=Walnut Hill Media |url=http://www.walnuthillmedia.com/about_tisch.html |website=walnuthillmedia.com |access-date=7 January 2022 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
After September 11, Tisch served as chairman of New York Rising, a task force set committed to reviving tourism in New York City.<ref name=book/> ''Crain's New York Business'' named Tisch one of the "Top Ten Most Influential Business Leaders"; in 2006, he was named "CEO of the Year" by the Executive Council of New York.<ref name="Walnut Hill Media"/>
A co-owner of the New York Giants,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Tisch {{!}} Speakers {{!}} Real Estate Impact Conference {{!}} University of Miami |url=https://real-estate-impact.miami.edu/program/speakers/23/jonathan-tisch/index.html |access-date=2025-10-07 |website=real-estate-impact.miami.edu |language=en |archive-date=December 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251219041942/https://real-estate-impact.miami.edu/program/speakers/23/jonathan-tisch/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> he serves on the board of directors and is the team's treasurer.<ref name="Jonathan Tisch">{{cite web |title=Jonathan Tisch |url=https://www.giants.com/team/front-office-roster/jonathan-tisch |website=giants.com |publisher=New York Giants |access-date=7 January 2022 |archive-date=January 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107060553/https://www.giants.com/team/front-office-roster/jonathan-tisch |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2010, Tisch joined New York Jets owner Woody Johnson as co-chairs of the bid committee established to bring Super Bowl XLVIII to the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area,<ref name="Jonathan Tisch" /> which happened in 2014 when the Super Bowl was played at MetLife Stadium.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mayor Bloomberg, Nfl Commissioner Roger Goodell And 2014 Ny/nj Super Bowl Host Committee Announce Plans And Events For Super Bowl Xlviii|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/035-13/mayor-bloomberg-nfl-commissioner-roger-goodell-2014-ny-nj-super-bowl-host-committee-announce#/1|website=Government of New York City|date=January 24, 2013}}</ref>
On December 31, 2024, Jonathan Tisch stepped down as director and co-chairman of Loews Corporation's Offices of the President, though he continued to serve as executive chairman of Loews Hotels and as a director emeritus.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pringle |first=Eleanor |date=February 17, 2025 |title=The Tisch family just appointed its third generation of CEO at $18.5 billion Loews Corporation—he’s pledging to focus on one job |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tisch-family-just-appointed-third-154352447.html |access-date=July 29, 2025 |website=Yahoo! Finance |archive-date=March 27, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250327084518/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tisch-family-just-appointed-third-154352447.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
On March 11, 2026, Tisch along with his siblings, Steve and Laurie, made a request to the NFL to approve the transfer of their ownership stakes in the New York Giants to their children’s trusts following the backlash from Steve's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.<ref>{{cite web |first1=Seth|last1=Wickersham|first2=Jordan|last2=Raanan|title=Tisch family looks to transfer Giants stake to children's trusts|url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48174929/tisch-family-looks-transfer-giants-stake-children-trusts|work=ESPN.com|date=March 11, 2026}}</ref>
== Publications ==
=== Books === Tisch has co-written three books: ''The Power of We: Succeeding Through Partnerships'', ''Chocolates on the Pillow Aren't Enough: Reinventing the Customer Experience'' (John Wiley & Sons, 2007), and ''Citizen You: Doing Your Part to Change the World''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jonathan Tisch |url=https://tisch.nyu.edu/giving/the-tisch-gala/tisch-gala-2016/jonathan-tisch |website=nyu.edu |access-date=26 February 2020 |archive-date=February 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226011736/https://tisch.nyu.edu/giving/the-tisch-gala/tisch-gala-2016/jonathan-tisch |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== Media === He is the host of ''Beyond the Boardroom with Jonathan Tisch'', where he interviews American businesspeople. In 2008, Tisch co-founded Walnut Hill Media, LLC, privately held company that invests in media ventures<ref name="Walnut Hill Media"/> such as Tribeca Enterprises.<ref name="Interview with The Real Deal"></ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Weisenthal |first1=Joseph |title=Loews Chairman Tisch Launches 'Walnut Hill Media'; Invests In Tribeca Enterprises |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/loews-chairman-tisch-launches-walnut-hill-media-invests-in-tribeca-enterprises/ |website=cbsnews.com |date=15 September 2008 |publisher=CBS Interactive Inc. |access-date=7 January 2022}}</ref> Tisch appears as an actor in several films, including ''Confessions of a Shopaholic''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Confessions of a Shopaholic |url=http://prod.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/684114/confessions-of-a-shopaholic |access-date=2025-10-07 |website=prod.tcm.com |language=en}}{{dead link|date=December 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
== Philanthropy== thumb|right|250px|Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. Tisch served as the vice-chairman of The Welfare to Work Partnership, and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Tufts University.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jonathan Tisch |url=https://tisch.nyu.edu/giving/the-tisch-gala/tisch-gala-2016/jonathan-tisch#:~:text=Tisch%20is%20also%20the%20former,Part%20to%20Change%20the%20World. |website=nyu.edu |access-date=7 January 2022 |archive-date=February 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226011736/https://tisch.nyu.edu/giving/the-tisch-gala/tisch-gala-2016/jonathan-tisch#:~:text=Tisch%20is%20also%20the%20former,Part%20to%20Change%20the%20World. |url-status=live }}</ref> Tisch gave an endowed gift of $40 million to fund the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Tisch College |url=https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/about/history |website=tufts.edu |date=12 September 2006 |publisher=Tufts University |access-date=7 January 2022 |archive-date=January 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107060559/https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/about/history |url-status=live }}</ref> Tisch is on the board of the Tribeca Film Institute
In 2011, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch gave $10 million to The Metropolitan Museum of Art to support an exhibition space within the Costume Institute to be named The Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery.
In March 2022, Tisch said he would give $25 million to his high school alma mater, The Frederick Gunn School, to build the Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Center for Innovation and Active Citizenship.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Center for Innovation and Active Citizenship |url=https://www.frederickgunn.org/academics/ciac |website=frederickgunn.org |publisher=The Frederick Gunn School |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=May 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516212003/https://www.frederickgunn.org/academics/ciac |url-status=live }}</ref>
Lizzie has served on the Board of Trustees of NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital since 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nyp.org/about-us/governance-and-leadership/board-of-trustees|title=NYP.org About Us Governance and Leadership Board of Trustees|accessdate=April 7, 2021|archive-date=August 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811131036/https://www.nyp.org/about-us/governance-and-leadership/board-of-trustees|url-status=live}}</ref>
Tisch was elected chairman of the board of The Shed, a New York City arts center, in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://theshed.org/about/board-and-staff |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=theshed.org |title=Board and Staff |archive-date=March 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315200027/https://theshed.org/about/board-and-staff |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Awards == In June 2022, Tisch was named by the International Hospitality Institute to its Global 100 in Hospitality list.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mix |first=Pulse |date=2022-08-01 |title=Dr Jeffrey Obomeghie and Dupe Olusola among the 100 most powerful people in global hospitality |url=https://www.pulse.ng/business/dr-jeffrey-obomeghie-and-dupe-olusola-among-the-100-most-powerful-people-in-global/3f8n19m |access-date=2022-08-03 |newspaper=Pulse Nigeria |language=en |archive-date=August 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801163626/https://www.pulse.ng/business/dr-jeffrey-obomeghie-and-dupe-olusola-among-the-100-most-powerful-people-in-global/3f8n19m |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Personal life== Tisch was born to a Jewish family,<ref>{{Cite web|first= Tom|last=Tugend |authorlink= |title=Jewish Democrats prepare to party |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date= August 8, 2000 |url=https://www.jta.org/2000/08/08/lifestyle/jewish-democrats-prepare-to-party }}</ref> the son of Joan (née Hyman) and Preston Robert Tisch, who was co-owner of Loews Hotels and of the New York Giants.
In 1988, he married Laura Steinberg, the daughter of financier and insurance executive Saul Steinberg, at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/19/nyregion/candlelight-wedding-joins-2-billionaire-families.html|title=Candlelight Wedding Joins 2 Billionaire Families|last=Dullea|first=Georgia|date=1988-04-19|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-08-13|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=August 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808115121/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/19/nyregion/candlelight-wedding-joins-2-billionaire-families.html|url-status=live}}</ref> They divorced in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tisch, Jonathan Mark - Tufts Digital Library|url=https://dl.tufts.edu/concern/rcrs/vh53x617w|access-date=2021-03-10|website=dl.tufts.edu|archive-date=February 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226013640/https://dl.tufts.edu/concern/rcrs/vh53x617w|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2007, he married Lizzie Stern Rudnick.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Tisch, Jonathan Mark - Tufts Digital Library |url=https://dl.tufts.edu/concern/rcrs/vh53x617w |access-date=2024-04-18 |archive-date=February 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226013640/https://dl.tufts.edu/concern/rcrs/vh53x617w |url-status=live }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060415001851/http://www.tufts.edu/trustees/info/tisch.shtml Tufts University Trustee Profile] *[http://www.loews.com/loews.nsf/governance.htm Loews Corporation Governance] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20041023124857/http://www.forbes.com/ceonetwork/2004/09/29/0929chat_transcript.html Q & A with Jonathan Tisch - forbes.com] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110525143646/http://www.tufts.edu/home/feature/?Tisch_gift $40 Million Gift - Tufts University] *[https://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/mojo_400/59_tisch.html Mother Jones Donor Profile - Jonathan Tisch] *[http://www.plumtv.com/shows Beyond the Boardroom - TV Show hosted by Jonathan Tisch] *{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/arts/design/12costume.html |title=Face-Lift for Met's Costume Institute |work=The New York Times |date=January 12, 2011}} *{{cite web |url=http://www.giants.com/team/staff/Jonathan-Tisch/dcab9279-b880-4953-a0b9-8be11565a3eb |publisher=New York Giants |title=Jonathan M. Tisch Official Giants Biography}} *[https://archive.today/20130119080737/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-04/loews-names-virgin-s-whetsell-chief-executive-of-hotel-division.html Loews Names Virgin’s Whetsell Chief Executive of Hotel Division] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150207024439/http://resident.com/2014/01/31/jonathan-tisch-east-side-eloise/ Interview with ''The New York Resident Magazine'']
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