Kimberly V. Strauss
Kimberly V. Strauss
Kimberly V. Strauss
Kimberly Strauss is a director of the Strauss Foundation founded in 1951, by her grandfather Maurice “Moe” L. Strauss, founder of the Philadelphia-based Pep Boys Auto Stores – Manny, Moe & Jack, in 1921. She began her career in business with Merrill Lynch in New York, before moving to Palm Beach to become a partner, and a managing director of a private venture fund, where she specialized in real estate investment management. Kimberly is a partner of Geneva based Fourragere Holdings Ltd. Concurrently she founded “the Wall Street Women’s Club, Inc.”, which she later sold, and was active in several philanthropic organizations. Served on the Executive Boards of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, New York Women Composers, Tri County Humane Society (Chairman), Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, where she also Chaired the Palm Beach Chairman’s Cabinet and served on the Executive Committees for the New World Symphony, International Society of Palm Beach, and Princess Grace Foundation.
Kimberly studied piano, primarily with Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute, the Settlement School, and the former New School of Music. She is currently a contemporary, classical composer who relocated back to Philadelphia two years ago, to write and produce a full-scale symphonic piece with visual installation. She is a member of the League of American Orchestras; Meet the Composer and American Composers Forum.
Kimberly is currently a member of the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Union League of Philadelphia, the Baldwin School’s National Board of Advisors and a member of the Board of Directors of the Opera Company of Philadelphia. She received an honor scholarship in Music to Duke University, but later transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in biochemistry. She has a patent pending in food science technology.