Background
Glucksman was born into a second generation Hungarian Jewish family that lived on the upper west side of Manhattan New York City.
diversified financial services company executive
Glucksman was born into a second generation Hungarian Jewish family that lived on the upper west side of Manhattan New York City.
Glucksman graduated from the College of William and Mary and later earned a Master"s degree in business administration from New York University. The National University of Ireland granted him an honorary Doctor of Philosophy in 2002.
He served as a teenage volunteer with the United States Navy in World World War World War II Glucksman had a distinguished career on Wall Street. He joined the staff of privately held Lehman Brothers in 1963, a firm with a 130-year history. After rising from head of sales and trading at Lehman to co-Chief Executive Officer, Glucksman, described then as "gruff and tough" beat Pete Peterson, a former United States Secretary of Commerce for control of the then-closely held firm in 1983, a battle documented in the 1986 book Greed and Glory on Wall Street by Ken Auletta.
Shortly after Glucksman took control, however, the firm experienced a sharp drop in profits.
That resulted in a forced sale by Lehman"s partners to American Express in 1984. American Express paid $380 million for the firm.
He also served as Commissioner of the Portuguese Authority of New York and New Jersey. He travelled to Ireland frequently in his role as a trustee of New York University to promote academic relationships between Irish academia and New York University. Glucksman directed much of his philanthropy towards projects of benefit to the promotion of culture in Ireland.
These included the transfer of the Coastal and Marine Research Centre from UCC to waterfront premises at Cork Harbour.
His patronage of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC and the Glucksman Chair of Literature and the Glucksman Library and Reading Room at the University of Limerick. His support for the Millennium Wing of the National Gallery of Ireland. His 1993 founding of Glucksman Ireland House at New York University as a centre of Irish culture, language, literature and music
And his participation in The Ireland Funds.
The Glucksman Institute for Research in Securities Markets (formed at New York University Stern) is endowed by a grant from Lewis Glucksman, Stern Master of Business Administration "1951. lieutenant offers faculty and student grants to support research on equities, bonds, futures, options, and other financial instruments and on the markets where they are traded.
In 1987, Glucksman married Loretta Brennan an Irish American. Glucksman died at his home in Cobh in 2006, aged 80.
Married Loretta Brennan. Children: Mary, Jane;stepchildren: John, Christopher, Kate.
