Nelson Peltz

Nelson Peltz (born June 24, 1942) is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is a founding partner, together with Peter W. May and Edward P. Garden, of Trian Fund Management, an alternative investment management fund based in New York. He is non-executive chairman of Wendy's Company, Sysco, and The Madison Square Garden Company. He is a former director of H.J. Heinz Company, Mondelēz International, and Ingersoll Rand and a former CEO of Triangle Industries.

Unilever named Nelson Peltz as a board member on 31st May 2022.

As of October 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$1.7 billion.

Early life and education

Peltz was born to a Jewish family in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Claire (née Wechsler; 1905–2007) and Maurice Herbert Peltz (1901–1977). He was the second of their two children, and grew up in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn, a sub-section of the East New York neighborhood.

He attended Horace Mann School in the Bronx. Peltz attended the undergraduate program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania starting in 1960, where he joined the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta,[16] but dropped out in 1963 and never completed a degree.

Personal life

Peltz has been married three times. His third wife is Claudia Heffner, a former fashion model, with whom he has eight children. He has two children from his first marriage. Among Peltz's children are actors Nicola Peltz and Will Peltz. His son Brad Peltz was drafted by the Ottawa Senators hockey team, which Nelson Peltz himself was once rumored to have an interest in buying. His daughter Nicola married Brooklyn Beckham (English footballer David Beckham's son), in a Jewish ceremony on 9 April 2022.

Peltz resides at his home Montsorrel, in Palm Beach, Florida. In 2015, he began a refurbishment and expansion project for the property. He also resides in Bedford, New York.

In 2020, Peltz organized a fundraiser in support of the re-election campaign of President Donald Trump, but following the storming of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, Peltz said on CNBC on January 7, "I voted for in this past election in November. Today I'm sorry I did that."