Steven Roth

Chairman & CEO at Vornado Realty Trust

Steven Roth is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Vornado Realty Trust. Mr. Roth has been Chairman of the Board since May 1989 and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board since April 1980. He was the Chief Executive Officer from May 1989 through May 2009 and was reappointed on April 15, 2013.

Mr. Roth is the co-founder and Managing General Partner of Interstate Properties and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alexander's, Inc. From 2011 until September 2013, Mr. Roth was a director of J. C. Penney Company, Inc. In addition, from 2005 until February 2011, Mr. Roth was a director of Toys "R" Us, Inc.

Barron's Magazine, in its March 2005, 2006 and 2007 issues named Mr. Roth one of the World's Thirty Most Respected CEO's. In its January 2006 issue on the Best CEO's in America, Institutional Investor magazine designated Mr. Roth as the top CEO in the REIT industry. Mr. Roth was the 2002 - 2003 Chair of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). Mr. Roth is a Trustee of Dartmouth College and from 1981 through 1987, he served on the Board of the Amos Tuck School, including endowing a professorship there and was the principal donor to the Roth Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth. He is currently a Trustee of the Intrepid Museum Foundation.

Mr. Roth is a graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. He received his AB degree from Dartmouth College and an MBS degree with Highest Distinction from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration.

Timeline

  • Chairman & CEO

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