Andrew Tisch and Ann Rubenstein Tisch

Andrew Tisch is a 1971 graduate of Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration and the co-chairman of the board, and chairman of the Executive Committee, of Loews Corporation. Previously, Andrew served as chairman and chief executive officer of Lorillard, Inc., and as president of the Bulova Watch Company and Bulova Corporation, which he helped to transform into one of the most innovative and successful watch companies in the world. In addition to his responsibilities at Loews, Andrew serves on numerous corporate boards and is a firm believer in giving back to the community. His leadership and support benefit a wide range of organizations and institutions, from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Brookings Institution to the Harvard Business School and the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is also prominent in Jewish communal affairs, serving as a trustee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, as founding chairman of the Jewish Leadership Forum, and as the founder of the Jewish Business Leadership Forum.

At Cornell, Andrew has been a steadfast leader and benefactor. A member of the Board of Trustees, he chairs the board’s Governmental Relations Committee and serves on its Executive Committee, as well as its committees on Board Membership, Student Life, and Alumni Affairs and Development. Andrew’s strong interest and expertise in rallying visibility and support for Cornell are invaluable. He plays a key role with the university’s current campaign, as a member of the Campaign Cabinet and the Major Gifts Committee, and has helped to bring countless alumni, parents, and friends closer to Cornell and its programs.

Ann Rubenstein Tisch is the president and founder of The Young Women’s Leadership Foundation and The Young Women’s Leadership Schools. They are groundbreaking all-girls inner city public schools, serving over 3,000 students. Ann’s vision for the schools developed during a career in broadcast journalism that spanned two decades and culminated in her post as a national correspondent for NBC Network News. At NBC, she covered educational issues extensively, and conceived the idea for a single-sex school, which opened in 1996. The flagship school in East Harlem has had extraordinary success, boasting a graduation and college placement rate of 100%, leading to the creation of a national model. Currently there are four Young Women’s Leadership Schools in New York City, one in Philadelphia, and affiliates in Chicago, Dallas, and Austin.  

In addition to her work in single-sex education, Ann is the founder of CollegeBound, a privately funded school-based college counseling service which is a separate program of The Young Women’s Leadership Foundation. CollegeBound places highly trained college guidance counselors in inner-city public high schools to guide economically disadvantaged students through the complex college admissions and financial aid process. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of Washington University, the Dean’s Council of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the Advisory Board of the Center for Educational Innovation. Ann is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.