president Chief Executive Officer of The Feil Organization
Feil was born to a Jewish family, the only son of Gertrude (née Cohen) and Louis Feil. His father first worked in the fur business before getting investing real estate in the 1950s. His father"s motto was "take care of your buildings and your buildings will take care of you." Feil was raised in Rockville Centre, New New York
In 1978, he joined The Feil Organization and after his father retired in 1988, he was running the organization.
Feil graduated with a Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Cincinnati and a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School.
He took a conservative approach using minimal debt and re-invested his profits which enabled him to grow his portfolio steadily and to survive the inevitable downturns. He has three sisters: Marilyn Barry (born 1938), Judith Jaffe (born 1940), and Carole Feil (born 1944). In 1999, his father died with an estate estimated at $250 million.
RCG Longview and the Feil Organization, would often partner together to complete transactions.
After the real estate crash of 2008–2009, and backed by the real estate held by the Feil Organization, he made several large and lucrative purchases. In 2009, he partnered with Lloyd Goldman and Stanley Chera to purchase for $117 million the retail space in The Saint Regis Hotel.
In 2012, they sold it for $380 million. Also in 2009, he partnered with George Comfort & Sons to purchase One Worldwide Plaza for $590 million after developer Harry Macklowe turned the property over to his lenders after the real estate crash (Macklowe had paid $174 billion for it in 2008).
In 2013, they sold 49% of the building to RXR Realty, Limited Liability Company for $600 million.
In 2010, he co-developed Bakery Square in Pittsburgh. As of 2013, the Feil Organization owns or manages over $7 billion in real estate spread over nine states including the Fred F. French Building and the General Electric Building. In 2011, Feil donated $3 million to the South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, New York to build a cancer center.
The center was renamed The Gertrude & Louis Feil Cancer Center at South Nassau Communities Hospital.
Feil serves as a trustee for the Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medicine. Yeshiva University, and Brooklyn Law School.
He also serves on the Board of Governors of the New York Real Estate Board and is president of the Feil Family Foundation. In 2013, Feil donated $28 million to establish the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College.
lieutenant will be named The Gertrude and Louise Feil Campus for Ambulatory Care.
