Steven Roth

Steven Roth is a real estate investor, the founder and chairman of Vornado Realty Trust, the co-founder and managing general partner of Interstate Properties, and chairman and chief executive officer of Alexander's.

Biography
Roth was born to a Jewish family, the son of Fred and Virginia Roth. He graduated from [Clinton High School] in the Bronx. In 1962, Roth graduated with a B.A. from Dartmouth College and in 1963, he graduated with a M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. In 1964, with $250,000 in seed money from real estate investor David Mandelbaum, he formed Interstate Properties, a three person partnership (Roth, Mandelbaum, and Russell Wight Jr.) tasked with purchasing, renovating, and leasing shopping centers with Roth as managing partner. He repaid Mandelbaum within a year. and in 1980, he founded the New York based real estate investment trust Vornado Realty Trust. adding Alexander's substantial real estate holdings to his existent portfolio. They have two children: Jordan Roth (born 1975), is the president and majority owner of Jujamcyn Theaters; and Amanda Roth Salzhauer.