Matthew Bronfman is a businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist, a member of the Bronfman family, and the son of prominent businessman and philanthropist Edgar Bronfman, Senior
Background
His mother was the daughter of John Langeloth Loeb Senior (a Wall Street investment banker whose company was a predecessor of Shearson Lehman/American Express) and Frances Lehman (a member of the Lehman family that founded the Lehman Brothers banking firm).
Education
Bronfman graduated from Williams College in 1981. After working at Goldman Sachs he attended Harvard Business School where he graduated in 1985.
Career
Bronfman is one of five children of Ann (Loeb) and Edgar Miles Bronfman. They divorced in 1973. Bronfman began his career at Goldman Sachs and the Cadillac Fairview Corporation.
As one of the largest American Jewish investors in the Israeli economy, Bronfman is also the main shareholder in IKEA Israel, Israel Discount Bank and the Shufersal supermarket chain.
He is also the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BHB holdings, a family holding company. Previously, He was a managing director at ACI Holdings, a private equity firm based in New New York
Bronfman is the chairman of the international steering committee of Limmud FSU, a program focused on strengthening the Jewish identities of Russian-speaking Jews, and the chairman of the American Jewish Committee’s Automated Community Connection to Economic Self Sufficiency, which trains Jewish professionals to shape public opinion and policy around the world. He is also the managing principal of the Treetops Foundation, a charity focused on Jewish philanthropy and is on the boards of 92nd Street Y and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.