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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 Partners, an alternative investment management fund based in New York.[1] He is non-executive chairman of Wendy's Company,[2] Sysco, and The Madison Square Garden Company. He is a former director of H.J. Heinz Company, Mondelēz International,[3] and Ingersoll Rand[4] and a former CEO of Triangle Industries.[5]

Nelson Peltz

(1942-06-24) June 24, 1942

New York City, U.S.

Founder of Trian Partners

  • Cynthia Abrams
    (m. 1964; div. 1981)
  • Claudia Heffner
    (m. 1985)

10, including Will and Nicola

Brooklyn Beckham (son-in-law)

Early life and education[edit]

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).[6][7][8][9] He was the youngest of their three children, and grew up in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn, a sub-section of the East New York neighborhood.[10]


He attended Horace Mann School in the Bronx.[11] Peltz attended the undergraduate program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania starting in 1960,[11] where he joined the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta,[12] but left school in 1963, without receiving a degree.[7][13][14]

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Trian Fund Management, L.P. website

Triarc Companies, Inc. info

Nelson and Claudia Peltz Family Foundation Tax Exempt/NonProfit Organization Information

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