Adam Weitsman Biography and Wiki
Adam Joel Weitsman (b. Jun 13, 1968) is an American entrepreneur who is famously recognized as the owner and chief executive officer (CEO) of Upstate Shredding – Weitsman Recycling, a scrap metal processing company headquartered in Owego, New York. His company won Scrap Company of the Year by American Metal Market in 2015 and 2016.
Adam Weitsman Age and Birthday
Adam was born on June 13, 1968, in Owego, New York, United States. He is 53 years old as of 2021. His birth sign is Gemini.
Adam Weitsman Height
Weitsman stands at an average height and stature. His actual height measurements are under review and will be updated soon when established.
Adam Weitsman Education
Adam attended and graduated from Owego Free Academy in 1986. He then proceeded to join Long Island University in Brookville where he majored in banking at the C.W. Post Campus and graduated in 1989.
Adam Weitsman Family, Parents, Siblings
Weitsman is the proud son of Harold Fredrick (Fred) Weitsman and his mother whose identity is not known. His grandfather, Ben Weitsman began a used auto parts business in 1938, which evolved into a scrap processing company called Ben Weitsman & Son in 1958.
Adam grew up in Owego, New York alongside his sister Rebecca Weitsman who was a trained artist, also helped run the company until she succumbed to cancer. His sister passed away in the 1990s.
Adam Weitsman Wife, Is He Married?
Moving on to his marital affairs, the entrepreneur is happily married to his beautiful wife, Kim Weitsman who previously worked as a model before quitting in 2004 and joining Adam’s company as an operations manager for Upstate Shredding.
The romantic duo met each other in the summer of 2000. They later exchanged their wedding vows in June 2006 in Skaneateles, NY.
Adam Weitsman Children, Daughter
Adam and Kim are blessed with three lovely children; Clover Weitsman born in 2009, and later on twins Monroe Weitsman, and Rae Weitsman born in the summer of 2017.
Adam Weitsman Net Worth
The entrepreneur and philanthropist boasts a net worth of $1.2 billion. His company Upstate Shredding generates annual revenue of $750 million. The company has 17 branches in New York and Pennsylvania with about 500 workers.
Adam Weitsman House
Weitsman bought a 2,564-square-foot lakefront home at 61 W. Lake St. in Skaneateles for $2.5 million which sits next to his mansion. The house is valued at $909,500.
Adam Weitsman Upstate Shredding
After his sister’s death, Adam Weitsman quit a career in New York City and started back to his hometown to support his father in the family scrap metal business. He grew fond of the Scrap metal business which resulted in him opening up an Upstate Shredding at the Tioga County Industrial Park in Owego, NY in 1997.
Adam purchased Ben Weitsman & Son, Inc. after his father retired in 2005 as well as acquired an 11-acre scrapyard in Solvay, NY from Peter Matlow for $225,000. By the end of the year 2009, Upstate Shredding was the biggest privately owned scrap business on the East Coast. In March 2010, Upstate Shredding received Tioga County’s Business of the Year award.
In Addition, Weitsman began construction on a Mexican restaurant, Elephant and the Dove, in addition to the development of a sushi bar in Owego, NY in 2018.
Adam Weitsman Jail
Adam served eight months at Otisville Federal Prison in New York in 2004, then another two and a half months in a halfway house for kiting checks during the company’s financial struggles that started in 1998.