Martin Bandier

Bandier was born July 21, 1941, and grew up in Queens. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School at 16. He then attended Brooklyn Law School, graduating in 1965. ==Career==

Following graduation from Brooklyn Law School, he joined the New York firm of Battle, Fowler, Jaffin and Kheel. He was also president and chief operating officer of the SBK Records Group, a record label that EMI operated with its parent. In 2012, Sony/ATV Music Publishing consortium acquired EMI Music Publishing, reunited Bandier with his former company catalog he helped build. Bandier stepped down from the Chairman/CEO of the company in March 2019 and was succeeded by Jon Platt. ==Philanthropy==

Bandier is a member on the boards of the City of Hope, the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the NMPA, where he is Vice President of the Board of Directors. He also serves as a trustee of the T.J. Martell Foundation and Syracuse University. The GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares Foundation, the affiliated charities of The Recording Academy, also announced that their respective Boards had elected Bandier to be a MusiCares Director. The program, initially housed at the College of Visual and Performing Arts was later moved to the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2017. Billboard has consistently ranked the Bandier program amongst the top music business programs in the nation. ==Awards==

In 1990, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In May 2019, he was named BMI Icon at BMI's 67th Annual Pop Awards. ==Personal life==

Bandier is Jewish. He has been married twice. He met his first wife Denise LeFrak, daughter of housing developer Samuel LeFrak, during college at Syracuse. They had two children before divorcing: Allison Bandier Koffman and Jenifer Lee Bandier. His second wife is Dorothy Harris. They have one son: Max Harris Bandier. The couple are members of the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County, Florida. ==References==