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Laurie M. Tisch is the President of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund. The Illumination Fund is organized around a core mission of increasing access and opportunity for all New Yorkers and fostering healthy and vibrant communities, using an equity lens to develop initiatives and to issue grants. Since she started the foundation in 2007, the Illumination Fund has undertaken high-impact initiatives, including Healthy Food & Community Change, launched in 2013, and Arts in Health, launched in 2018. The Fund has played a catalytic role in a range of initiatives and organizations, as well as in public-private partnerships with multiple City agencies.

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Ms. Tisch’s philanthropy stems from her family’s legacy of giving in New York City, from years of experience serving on boards, building institutions and developing partnerships, and from an engaged civic life. She is a former Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Whitney Museum of American Art and is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, serves on the Board of Directors at The Juilliard School, and is a Trustee of the Aspen Institute. She is also a co-owner and member of the Board of Directors of the New York Football Giants. Ms. Tisch is Chair Emeritus of the Center for Arts Education and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan(CMOM). Ms. Tisch led CMOM’s transformation and expansion from a neighborhood-based storefront into a citywide institution that is now recognized as a national leader in health, education and the arts.Currently, she is co-chairing a capital campaign to build a new home for CMOM on Central Park West and 96th Street.

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Ms. Tisch is a recipient of many awards for philanthropy and public service. In December 2018, she received the Key to the City of New York at Gracie Mansion. She was named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women of 2017” by Crain’s New York Business, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was honored with the United Way of NYC’s 10th Anniversary Power of Women to Make a Difference Award and by the New York Women’s Foundation. She received Share Our Strength’s “No Kid Hungry” Hero Award and New York City’s Special Merit in Public Health Award for her initiatives promoting access to healthy foods in low-income communities. She has also received the Lincoln Center Distinguished Service Award. She has an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University.

Jonathan M. Tisch is Co-Chairman of the Board of Loews Corporation and Executive Chairman of its subsidiary Loews Hotels & Co. Prior to assuming the role of Executive Chairman, Tisch was Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels & Co. and has been an officer of the Company since 1986.

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Tisch has led Loews’ expansion and emergence as a prominent and respected hotel company with a widely praised culture that embraces the power of partnerships—with team members, guests, communities, and owners. He was voted “Hotelier of the World” by HOTELS magazine. Recognized nationally as a statesman for the multibillion-dollar travel and tourism industry, Tisch is Chairman Emeritus of the U.S. Travel Association and previously served as chairman of the Travel Business Roundtable and the American Hotel & Lodging Association. Committed to a vibrant tourism industry locally, Tisch served for nearly six years as chairman of NYC & Company, New York City’s official tourism agency, and was chairman of New York Rising, which was established to bring back visitors and revive the economy after 9/11. Crain’s New York Business named him one of the “Top 10 Most Influential Business Leaders” and inducted him into its Hall of Fame, which recognizes individuals who have transformed the City in both their professional work and in their civic and philanthropic activities.

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Tisch is the author of three bestselling books: The Power of We: Succeeding Through Partnerships, Chocolates on the Pillow Aren’t Enough: Reinventing the Customer Experience, and Citizen You: Doing Your Part to Change the World. He hosted the Emmy-nominated television series Beyond the Boardroom.

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Tisch is a champion of corporate responsibility and active citizenship. More than 25 years ago, he initiated the Loews Hotels Good Neighbor Policy, a recipient of the US President’s Service Award. He is currently Vice Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Tufts University, and is the naming benefactor of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts. In 2017, he was honored by the New York University School of Professional Studies with the naming of the Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality, of which he has been a driving force for years. He is a founding board member and Chairman of The Shed, New York City’s cultural center for arts and ideas, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital for Special Surgery.

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A co-owner of the New York Giants, Tisch was instrumental in bringing the 2014 Super Bowl to the NYC metropolitan area and served as co-chair of the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee.

Steve Tisch is an Academy-award winning producer; partner at Escape Artists Productions; Chairman, Executive Vice President and Co-Owner of the New York Football Giants; and a committed philanthropist. He is the only person with both an Oscar and a Super Bowl ring, winning Best Picture for Forrest Gump in 1994 and receiving two Super Bowl rings as Chairman of the Giants for Super Bowls XLII and XLVI.

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For more than four decades, Steve has successfully produced compelling stories in film and television, from the critically acclaimed television movie, The Burning Bed starring Farrah Fawcett, to Risky Business, the sleeper hit that helped launch Tom Cruise's career. Other film credits include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, American History X, Snatch, The Weather Man, The Pursuit of Happyness, Seven Pounds, The Taking of Pelham 123, The Back-Up Plan, Hope Springs, The Equalizer, Southpaw, The Equalizer 2, The Upside, Troop Zero, A Journal For Jordan, Being the Ricardos, Pig and The Man from Toronto. The next feature release for Escape is The Equalizer 3, coming to theatres this fall.

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On the television side, Escape Artists first straight to series show, Perpetual Grace, LTD., premiered in 2019 on EPIX, with a limited run conclusion currently in the works. Currently streaming on Peacock is Dr. Death, based on the Wondery podcast, with follow up seasons in the works. Also streaming on Apple TV, are Seasons 1, 2, 3 & 4 of Servant, in association with M. Night Shyamalan. Tisch also served as an Executive Producer alongside Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney on Why We Hate, a six-part docu-series which aired recently on The Discovery Channel, examining the origins and dangers of hate.

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Steve Tisch has been involved with the New York Giants since his father, Preston Robert Tisch, purchased 50 percent of the franchise in 1991. In 2005, Steve was named Executive Vice President, and with the passing of his father that year, he assumed the additional title of Chairman. He worked closely with John Mara, President and CEO of the Giants, on the planning and construction of MetLife Stadium, which was completed in the spring of 2010 and ranked as the number one grossing stadium in the world in 2012. Steve also helped win the successful bid to bring Super Bowl XLVIII to MetLife Stadium in February 2014. Tisch and Mara were named Best NFL Owners by Forbes in 2011.

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Tisch is also active in philanthropy, generously contributing his time and resources to a variety of organizations in the arts, health and education. Recognizing the value of storytelling and its ability to increase dialogue and understanding, Steve made a transformative gift to Tel Aviv University, elevating its Department of Film and Television into a full school, now named The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television. The school has won top prizes at film festivals around the world and is Israel's leading institution of film and television studies. It has been ranked by The Hollywood Reporter among the top 15 international film schools for three years in a row. Tisch was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Tel Aviv University in 2016.

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Tisch made a leadership gift to the David Geffen School of Medicine for the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program, the single largest donation from an individual to a medical center for a concussion-related initiative. The gift created the first U.S. fellowship to train pediatric neurologists who specialize in sports concussions, and established the world's most sophisticated research, prevention, diagnosis and treatment program for concussions and brain injuries with a particular emphasis on young athletes.

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Steve Tisch is currently on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is a founding Trustee of The Geffen Theatre in Los Angeles, is on the Board of Advisors of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University, and previously served on the board of the Sundance Institute.

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Tisch resides in both Los Angeles and New York City.