Rebecka Belldegrun

Rebecka Belldegrun
Born Rebecka Zabludowicz
1950 (age 67–68)
Helsinki, Finland
Residence Los Angeles, California, US
Citizenship American
Alma mater Sackler School of Medicine
Occupation President and CEO of BellCo Capital
Years active 1986-present
Net worth Increase US$1 billion (2016)[1]
Spouse(s) Arie Belldegrun
Children 4
Parent(s) Pola and Shlomo Zabludowicz
Relatives Poju Zabludowicz (brother)
Anita Zabludowicz (sister-in-law)

Rebecka Belldegrun (born 1950), is a Finnish-born American ophthalmologist, businesswoman, investor and philanthropist.

Early life and education

Belldegrun was born in Helsinki to Pola and Shlomo Zabludowicz. Her younger brother is Poju Zabludowicz. She received her medical degree from the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, and later completed her Ophthalmic Surgery residency in Israel, and her fellowship in corneal surgery at Harvard Medical School.[2]

Career ventures

Intertech Corporation

In 1986, Belldegrun founded Intertech Corporation, a New York real estate company specializing in real estate development, investments, and acquisitions. She expanded Intertech's businesses and holdings to include interests in high-tech, biotechnology, hotel management and industrial manufacturing in the United States, England, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Israel. She served as the president of the company until 2003.[3]

BellCo Capital

Belldegrun is the CEO and president of BellCo Capital, a Los Angeles venture capital firm which she founded in 2003. BellCo Capital focuses on finding seed investments and experienced management to early-stage and start-up companies, as well as on leveraged acquisitions of, and growth equity investments in leading middle-market enterprises. The company's business transactions include international private equity investments in retail, high-tech, biotechnology and real estate.[4] One of BellCo's investments is in BabyFirstTV.

Board memberships

Belldegrun serves as a member of a number of boards, including:[3]

In the past, Belldegrun served as a member of the following boards:[2]

Personal life

Belldegrun is married to Dr. Arie Belldegrun and together they have four children.[8] They reside in Bel Air,[9] an affluent neighborhood in Los Angeles. Their oldest son, Ben Belldegrun, a hedge fund manager, is married to Kelly Bergantz, senior producer for Syco.[10] Ben Belldegrun was cited in the Panama Papers[11] and in 2013 he was a founder of the Lodestone Natural Resources hedge fund in London which closed following the arrest of the other two co-founders for insider trading. [12]

In 2016, in its annual ranking of the wealthiest people in Israel, Forbes Israel ranked Arie and Rebecka Belldegrun 37th with a personal net worth of ₪3.9 billion (equal to US$1 billion).[1]

Arie and Rebecka Belldegrun have donated over $1 million to the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences,[13] and have donated a $5 million sculpture to LACMA.[14][15]

References

  1. 1 2 "100 העשירים בישראל 2016" (in Hebrew). Forbes Israel. 7 September 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 "LACMA Announces The Appointment Of Two New Trustees". American Towns. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Rebecka Belldegrun M.D.", Businessweek. Retrieved on 25 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "About BabyFirstTV", BabyFirstTV. Retrieved on 25 June 2013.
  5. ↑ Ritea, Steve (26 October 2016). "Caltech Elects Three New Members to Board of Trustees, Including former U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham ". Pasadena Now. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  6. ↑ "Advisory Board". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  7. ↑ "Rebecka Belldegrun, M.D. : Kronos Bio". Kronos Bio. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Arie Belldegrun, M.D.", USRF. Retrieved on 23 June 2013.
  9. ↑ "Architecture Project Entries 2003", AIANY, 2003. Retrieved on 23 June 2013.
  10. ↑ Kay, Richard (23 October 2012). "RICHARD KAY: Cowell girl gets the Yes Factor". Daily Mail (London). Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  11. ↑ "ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database".
  12. ↑ "Lodestone Hedge Fund".
  13. ↑ "$1M Lifetime Donors to the School of Arts and Sciences". University of Pennsylvania. 30 June 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  14. ↑ "Smoke | LACMA Collections". LACMA. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  15. ↑ "Tony Smith's monumental sculpture 'Smoke' will not disappear from LACMA; multimillion-dollar purchase finalized". Los Angeles Times. 18 June 2010. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
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