Henry Gluck

Henry Gluck (born 1929) is an American business executive and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California. He was the president of Monogram Industries from 1969 to 1972. He served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Caesars World from 1983 to 1994. He also served as co-chairman of Transcontinental Properties from 1995 to 2003, and helped develop the new community of Lake Las Vegas in Nevada. He supports many philanthropic organizations in Los Angeles, and serves as chairman of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Life and career

Early life Henry Gluck was born in 1929 in Europe. He grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Career He joined Monogram Industries in the 1950s. The company, which sold industrial products, was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He then served on the boards of directors of the Cordura Corporation, Growth Realty, Daylin, the Gibraltar Savings and Loan Association, Metal Box America, and the Sheraton Hotel Corporation. It was his wife, Arline, who gave him the idea, as she was bored when she visited him in Las Vegas. This idea led to The Forum Shops at Caesars, one of the highest-grossing malls in the United States.

Later that year, in 1995, he became co-chairman of Transcontinental Properties, a real estate development company which developed Lake Las Vegas. The construction of the new community, located southeast of Las Vegas, cost US$5 billion.

Gluck served on the board of directors of California Pizza Kitchen from 2003 to 2008. Additionally, he has been a donor to the Los Angeles Jewish Home and to Veterans Park Conservancy.

He has served on the Board of Advisors of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center since 2001. Since 2009, he has served as its chairman. He also serves on the board of trustees of the Business Institute of Gerontology of the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center at University of Southern California.

Personal life He is married to Arline Gluck. They reside in Bel Air. He is an avid tennis player