Rob Speyer (born 1969) is an American real estate developer. He is the CEO of New York City real estate company

Tishman Speyer Tishman Speyer Properties is an American company that invests in real estate. History The firm was founded in 1978 by Robert Tishman and Jerry Speyer. In March 1988, the company announced its first project in Europe, the construction of a 70-s ...

Early life and education

Speyer was born to a Jewish family, the son of Lynn (née Tishman) and

Jerry Speyer Jerry I. Speyer (born June 23, 1940) is an American real estate developer. He is one of two founding partners of the New York real estate company Tishman Speyer, which controls the Rockefeller Center. Early life and education Speyer was born in M ...

.''New York Times'': "A Developer For the 90's: Big Projects, Little Flash" By BRETT PULLEY
October 08, 1995 His great-grandfather, Julius Tishman, founded

Tishman Realty and Construction Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc. is an American corporation founded in 1898 that owns and develops real estate. The company is known for being the contractor that built the original World Trade Center in New York City. Tishman Constructio ...

; and his father Jerry Speyer and his maternal grandfather,

Robert Tishman Robert Valentine Tishman (April 7, 1916 – October 11, 2010) was an American real estate developer who was head of the family-owned firm Tishman Realty & Construction until it was disestablished in 1977, and was one of the two founding partners ...

, founded the real estate development firm Tishman Speyer. His parents divorced in 1987. In 1992, he graduated ''magna cum laude'' from Columbia College, where he was elected to

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. He is an emeritus member of the Board of Visitors at Columbia College. He worked as a reporter for the

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before joining Tishman Speyer.

Career

In 2015, Speyer became Tishman Speyer's president and chief executive officer. Speyer was a member of the

Real Estate Board of New York The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) is "the leading trade group advocating on policy changes in the real estate industry," a trade association for the real estate industry in New York City. Formed in 1896, its current president is James W ...

's (REBNY) executive committee since 2004, and became the chairman of the committee in 2013. He was named chairman of the advisory board of the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City in 2006, reappointed in 2014 by Mayor

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and then reappointed by Mayor Adams. Speyer sits on the board of trustees of

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; the board of visitors of Columbia College (emeritus); the board of directors of the

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; the board of trustees of the Citizens Budget Commission; and on the board of directors of Exor.

Personal life

In 2008, Speyer married Anne-Cecilie Engell. Originally from

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, Engell graduated from

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and received her MBA from

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Speyer, Rob 1969 births American chief executives American real estate businesspeople American people of German-Jewish descent Columbia College (New York) alumni Living people New York Daily News people Tishman family