Eliot I Snider

Eliot Snider worked for his father’s Massachusetts Lumber company and became president in 1953, according to an article from the New England Historic Genealogical Society. He sold the business to a Mississippi company in 1998 but kept the facilities. He then leased properties and focused on real estate and investment management. He died in November at age 98, Mr. Snider is a real estate and investment firm in Cambridge, MA. He serves on the board of Rogers Foam Corp. and is chairman of Eastern Terminals, Inc. He is president of the Snider Charitable Trust and the Freund Charitable Foundation and is the immediate past chair of the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties. Mr. Snider is a trustee emeritus at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts, and a director of the Boston Public Library Foundation. Mr. Snider received his AB from Harvard and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a past president of the Harvard Business School Association, served as alumni president of the Business School and established a professorship in social enterprise. At Harvard’s School of Public Health, he is a member of the Dean’s Council. In May 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters by Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. Mr. Snider lives in Palm Beach and Chestnut Hill, MA, with his wife, Ruth Freund. They have three children and four grandchildren.