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Michael Recanati | |
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Born | June 21, 1957 |
Died | July 12, 2015 | (aged 58)
Nationality | American Israeli |
Occupation(s) | Businessman, philanthropist |
Partner | Tom Schalk [1] |
Children | 1 |
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Relatives |
Leon Yehuda Recanati (paternal grandfather) Leon Recanati (first cousin) Avraham Rakanti (Great uncle) |
Michael Recanati (1957–2015) was an American businessman and philanthropist.
Michael Recanati was born in 1957. [2] His father, Raphael Recanati was an Israeli-American businessman and philanthropist. [2] [1] Recanati was educated at Ramaz School in Manhattan, New York City. [3]
Recanati started his career at his family business, the Overseas Shipholding Group, in 1978. [2] He was forced to leave OSG in 1995 after a dispute about the company's investments in cruise ships. [2]
Recanati founded Orama, a venture capital firm based in New York City and Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1999. [4] It closed down in 2001. [5] In 2008, Recanati founded Really Cool Foods, an organic food company. It closed down in 2011. [6]
Recanati served as the chairman of 511 Equities. [7]
Recanati endowed the Dina and Raphael Recanati Professorship in Immunology at the Harvard Medical School in honor of his parents in 1992. Dr Jerome Groopman is the current chair. [8] He also endowed the Recanati Family Professor of Science and professor of Microbiology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at New York University [9]
In 2002, Recanati and his partner Ira Statfeld made a $5 million donation to the then Hampton Day School, [10] [11] taking control of the board of trustees and changing the name of the school to the Morriss Center in honor of Statfeld's father, [12] however the school merged with the Ross School in 2006. [13] In 2007, it was reported that Recanati and his partner had donated $30 million to the Child Study Center at New York University to establish an Asperger's Institute. [3]
Recanati and his partner Ira Statfeld had one son. [3] They resided in Manhattan and East Hampton, New York. [14]
His partner at time of death was Tom Schalk. [1]