Background
Welt, Henry was born on October 16, 1946 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Abraham Joseph and Rose (Eisen) Welt.
Welt, Henry was born on October 16, 1946 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Abraham Joseph and Rose (Eisen) Welt.
AB, Columbia College, 1968; Juris Doctor, Columbia College, 1972.
Worked at Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman LLP. Admitted to the bar, 1973, New York. Phi Beta Kappa. Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
Vice Chairman and Member, Board of Directors, The Brooklyn Museum, 1986. Member: Advisory Board, National Outward Bound. Board of Directors and Chairman, The Drawing Society, 1993.
Advisory Board, Columbia University Department of Art History. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Art, 1981-1984, 1992). New York State and American (Member, Section on Business Law, International Business Law Committee) Bar Associations.
New York County Lawyers Association (Member, Committees on: Corporation Law, 1978-1981. Securities and Exchanges, 1983-1986. Foreign and International Law, 1991).
International Bar Association (Member, Committee on International Franchising, 1990).
Vice chairman, board directors, trustee, chairman development committee The Brooklyn Museum, since 1985. Member fine arts acquisition committee The Jewish Museum. Member American JewishCom.
Trustee Roundtable Political Action Committee, Military Intelligence Political Action Committee. Member American Bar Association (corporation law section, art law committee), New York City Bar Association (member realproperty law committee), New York County Lawyers Association (member securities regulation committee), International Bar Association, International Fiscal Association, The DrawingSoc. (trustee since 1988), The Harlem School of the Arts (trustee since 1988), Am Art Forum (trustee since 1987), Union League, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Cheryl Alice Hedaya, June 9, 1968. Children: Daniel Stephen, Michael David, William Joseph.