Marcy Syms
President of the Sy Syms Foundation and former CEO of Syms Corp, Marcy Syms is an independent director of private and public companies and was one of the youngest women to be named president of a publicly traded NYSE company.
Marcy is a member of the New York Women’s Forum—an organization of pre-eminent women making a difference—a founding member of Womensphere, a board member of both Veteran Feminists of America and the ERA Coalition, and a past director of Rite Aid and Benco Dental. She was an “early adopter” of public radio and television and has served on the board of National Public Radio since 2015.
Marcy was named an Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow at Harvard in 2022-23 and serves on three of the university’s advisory boards. Most recently she has helped to establish the ERA Project at NYU Law School, where she also serves as an advisor. She is also the author of Leading with Respect: Adventures of an Off-Price Fashion Pioneer.
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