James Tisch

James S. Tisch (born January 2, 1953) is an American businessman who has been the CEO of Loews Corporation since 1999. Early life and education He was born in 1953 in Atlantic City, New Jersey to Wilma "Billie" Stein and Laurence Tisch. His father was co-chairman of Loews Corporation along with his uncle Preston Robert Tisch. In 1971, James graduated from Suffield Academy in Suffield, Connecticut. He went on to earn a B.A. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Career Tisch's other positions include a seat in the directorate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the chairmanship of WNET, membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, and seats on the boards of General Electric, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, and the New York Public Library. Tish, alongside Mark Penn, Victor Ganzi, Josh Harris, and Thomas Peterffy, contributed to a $50 million investment fund in The Messenger, a news website that launched in May 2023.