Stephen Swid is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SESAC, Inc., one of the three performing rights organizations in the USA.

From February, 1990 until January, 1995, Mr. Stephen Swid was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Westview Press, a scholarly book publisher based in Boulder, Colorado and from 1989 until 1997 the Chairman and Chief Executive Office of SPIN, a music and youth culture magazine. From 2003 to 2006 Mr. Swid was a Director of Bally Total Fitness, a New York Stock Exchange company, which owns and operates health clubs.

From November, 1986, until May, 1989, Mr. Swid was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SBK Entertainment World, Inc., a leading music publisher and worldwide entertainment services company. For twelve years until July, 1986 he was Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Knoll International Holdings, Inc., one of the nation's largest privately held corporations with annual revenues approximating $2 billion. He was also Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Knoll International, a public company.

A graduate of Ohio State University, Mr. Swid was Founder and Senior Partner of Swid Investors, an investment limited partnership, general partner of City Associates, a private management company, senior investment officer of the Oppenheimer Fund and securities analyst of the Dreyfus Fund.

Due to his interest in foreign relations and international diplomacy, Mr. Swid is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and past Director of the East West Institute. In May, 1976, he attended the National Security Conference of the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base.

Mr. Stephen Swid is an active supporter of the arts and education and currently serves as a Director of The Municipal Art Society of New York. He is a Trustee and Chairman of the Executive & Finance Committee of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and is a member of the Visiting Committee on 20th Century Art for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

He has also served as a Trustee of the Horace Mann School and as Executive Vice President of the Board of the Lenox School, New York.

Mr. Swid's Philanthropic Activities include:

• A conference and exhibition held at the Harvard School of Design in 1982 entitled “The International Style in Perspective: 1932-1982.”
• Sponsorship of “Modern Masters: European Paintings from the Museum of Modern Art” – a 1980 exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Sponsorship of the 1981 exhibition at The Guggenheim Museum, “ Arshile Gorky – A Retrospective, 1903-1948.”
• Sponsorship of the film “Mies van der Rohe”, winner of the New York Film Festival Award in 1980, now available to schools across the country.
• Sponsorship of numerous art exhibitions at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Philadelphia College of Art, the Israel Museum, the Smithsonian and the Institute of Contemporary Art.
• Sponsorship of the 1996-1997 exhibition at The Guggenheim Museum, “Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective.”

Community Activities:

• The New School University NYC – elected as a Trustee in 2003.
• Director and Chairman Emeritus of The Municipal Art Society, New York City.
• Trustee and Chairman of the Executive & Finance Committee of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City.
• Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
• Member of the Visiting Committee on 20th Century Art for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
• Past Trustee of The Horace Mann School and past Executive Vice President of the Board of the Lenox School, New York City.

Well Published Quote: "Being rich is having money, being wealthy is having time."

Mr. Stephen Swid is married and has three children.