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Jonathan Tisch  - "Citizen Brown"

Jonathan M. Tisch (born 1953) has been Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels since 1989, as well as being Co-Chairman of the Board and Member of the Office of the President of Loews Corporation, its parent company. He is the son of Founder Robert Tisch. Tisch, who graduated from Tufts University in 1976, gave an endowed gift of $40 million dollars in 2006 to fund the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service.  In 2004 his work, The Power of We : Succeeding Through Partnerships (ISBN 0-471-74105-1), was published and became a national bestseller. His second book, Chocolates on the Pillow Aren't Enough: Reinventing the Customer Experience (ISBN 978-0-470-04355-4), was published in March 2007. It was named a finalist for the Quill Awards' "Best Business Book of the Year." He is currently writing a third book entitled "Citizen You: Doing Your Part to Change the World." Currently, Jonathan Tisch is the host of Emmy-nominated "Beyond the Boardroom with Jonathan Tisch," a series of one-on-one interviews with America’s preeminent CEOs and business people on Plum TV, a media network. The show has also aired on CNBC, Fox, PBS and WNBC-New York. The Tisch family is one of America's wealthiest and influential, with assets in the billions which they control through their holding company, Loews Corporation.