James S. Tisch (born January 2, 1953) is an American businessman who has been the CEO of Loews Corporation since 1999.
He was born in 1953 in Atlantic City, New Jersey to Wilma "Billie" Stein and Laurence Tisch.
His father was co-chairman of Loews Corporation along with his uncle Preston Robert Tisch.
[citation needed] Tisch was an investor, alongside Mark Penn, Victor Ganzi, Josh Harris, and Thomas Peterffy, in The Messenger, a news website that launched in May 2023.
[8] Tisch and his wife Merryl donated $40 million to establish The Tisch Cancer Institute, a cancer care and research facility at the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.