Jeff died peacefully July 22, 2020, surrounded by his immediate family. He was a New Yorker through and through, growing up on Long Island and living in New York for most of his life apart from stints in Princeton and in Cambridge at Harvard Business School.
After graduating, Jeff spotted the opportunity to give high school teachers and college professors the ability to select video curriculum supplements apart from the schools’ centralized ordering. This idea mushroomed into the successful Insight Media, through which he and his wife, Janet Olshansky, opened a world of independence for educators.
They sold that business several years ago, and Jeff enjoyed semi-retirement as a father, philanthropist, tennis and golf enthusiast, and world traveler.
Jeff supported several causes, along with friends in their artistic and business endeavors. He served for a long time as head of the North Salem Open Lands Foundation, dedicated to maintaining undeveloped land in northern Westchester.
Jeff died from stroke complications. He is survived by his loving wife, Janet; and his two children, Madeleine, the manager of a New York City art gallery, and Ian, a recent graduate from a master’s degree program in Limerick, Ireland, where he played on a professional basketball team.