Joseph Neubauer (born October 19, 1941 in Palestine) is an American businessman and the former CEO of Aramark. Before joining Aramark, he was vice-president at PepsiCo and Chase Manhattan Bank. Neubauer is listed at #82 on Fortune's top paid CEO list. As a CEO he was able to lead Aramark to a successful fiscal year in 2010, generating around $12.6 billion in revenue.[ Forbes ] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007. In December 2014, Neubauer announced his retirement from Aramark.
Philanthropy
Neubauer and his wife, Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer, are the founding donors of the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago.
[ Neubauer Family Foundation (Joseph Neubauer and Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer) Chronicle of Philanthropy] They also fund the Neubauer Family Foundation, based in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through his Neubauer Family foundation, he was a key financial supporter of the Pew Research Center's 2013 and 2020 surveys of American Jews; and is a supporter of Brandeis University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and Jewish museums in
Berlin,
Warsaw, and
Israel.