Background
Elliott Broidy is the son of Sherman G. Broidy (1924-2014), an educator and property developer, and Dorothy Horowitz.
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Education
Broidy graduated from the University of Southern California, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance.
Career
He is a Certified Public Accountant (Certified Public Accountants). He started his career in finance at Arthur Andersen. He was Managing Director at Bell Enterprises from 1982 to 1991.
In 1991, he founded Broidy Capital Management, an investment firm.
He then served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He served as Chairman of ESI Holdings, an event management firm.
Additionally, he served on the Boards of Directors of the Foley Timber and Land Company, and Vantis Capital Management. He served as Commissioner and Chairman of the Alternative Investment Committee of the Los Angeles City Fire and Police Pension Fund from 2002 to 2009.
He served on the Board Governors of the California-Israel Chamber of Commerce.
In 2002, he founded Markstone Capital, a private equity firm which invested in the Israeli economy as well as the New York State Common Pension Fund. In 2009, he pled guilty to a felony after he was accusing of bribing former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi. Some of the money also went to Jack Chartier, who was Hevesi"s chief of staff and actress Peggy Lipton"s boyfriend.
Broidy was spared from going to jail after paying a $48 million bail.
Rob Eshman, the editor of The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, who published a scathing attack on Broidy when he was convicted, later publicly praised Broidy for taking full responsibility for his actions. In 2013, he was the executive producer of two films: Sugar and Snake and Mongoose.
He served as finance committee Chairman for the Republican National Committee. He was a "Super Ranger", donating more than United States$300,000 to President George West. Bush.
In October 2006, he hosted a fundraiser for then-President George West. Bush, where United States$1 was raised.
Later that year, he was appointed by Secretary Michael Chertoff to the Homeland Security Advisory Council as well as the Future of Terrorism Task Force and New Technology Task Force. Meanwhile, President Bush appointed him to the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He served on the Board of Governors and the Endowment Committee of Hebrew Union College.
Additionally, he served the Board of Trustees of the Hillel Foundation as well as the Center for Investment Studies at Marshall School of Business at his alma mater, the University of Southern California.
He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He has served on the Board of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple.
He was the 2008 recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Award by the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States for his Jewish philanthropy. He also served on the Board of Governors of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Los Angeles
He held a fundraiser for the American Ballet Theatre in 2006.
Membership
He was also finance Chair and member of the Board of Trustees of the Republican Jewish Coalition. He has been a member of the Young Presidents Organization.
