Marcy Syms
2022 ALI Fellow
Marcy Syms brings to ALI executive leadership experience from the retail sector. She is the president of TPD Group, a multigenerational succession planning company, and was previously the CEO of Syms Corp., which she transformed from a regional to national clothing retailer. Marcy is a director of Benco Dental, the third largest distributor of dental supplies in the U.S., and past director of Rite Aid Corp.
The founding trustee and president of the Sy Syms Foundation, which supports programs in the areas of education, scientific research, societal justice, and the arts, Marcy also serves on the boards of the ERA Project at Columbia Law School, the National Public Radio Foundation, CUNY’s Macaulay Honors School, and the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University. She is a past Overseer of Boston University.