Rebekah
American businesswoman and former chief brand and impact officer at WeWork
Rebekah Paltrow Neumann (née Paltrow; born February 26, 1978) is an American businesswoman. Until September 22, 2019, she served as chief brand and impact officer at WeWork, a company founded by her husband, Adam Neumann, and oversaw its education program WeGrow.
Quick Facts
- Father
- Bob Paltrow
- Mother
- Evelyn Paltrow
Lore & Background
Neumann, the daughter of Evelyn and Bob Paltrow, grew up in Bedford, New York, and attended the Horace Mann School. Her father had a direct mail business and was convicted of tax evasion, receiving probation and community service with no prison time. She studied business and Buddhism at Cornell University. She became a certified Jivamukti yoga instructor and received her yoga instructor certification from the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. She is a first cousin once removed of actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Neumann is a practicing Jew. When she started her yoga training, Rebekah went by the nickname Rebi.
Reader's Guide
After graduating from college, Neumann entered Salomon Smith Barney's Sales and Trading Program. In the early 2010s, she acted in and produced some short films using the screen name Rebekah Keith. In 2010, her husband, Adam Neumann, and Miguel McKelvey co-founded WeWork. In 2019 Rebekah Neumann began calling herself a cofounder of WeWork. She founded WeGrow, a private school in Chelsea, in 2017. In September 2019, after an attempt to take the company public revealed deepening financial issues, it was announced that Rebekah Neumann would step down as CEO of WeGrow and relinquish her role in The We Company. In October 2019, it was announced that the WeGrow school would close at the end of the academic year. In 2020, Neumann bought back some of WeGrow's assets and started Student of Life for Life (SOLFL).
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