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Benjamin Bronfman
Benjamin Bronfman
	Bronfman in 2023
Born	August 6, 1982 (age 42); New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Businessman, musician
Partner	Mathangi Arulpragasam (2008–2012)
Children	1
Father	Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Relatives	John Langeloth Loeb Sr. (great-grandfather); Samuel Bronfman (great-grandfather) ; Edgar Miles Bronfman (grandfather) ; Hannah Bronfman (sister) ;

Benjamin Zachary Bronfman (born August 6, 1982) is an American businessman and musician.^[1] Bronfman is a founding partner and board member of Global Thermostat, a direct air capture company that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.^[2]^[3]

Early life

Benjamin Zachary Bronfman was born on August 6, 1982 in New York City to African American actress Sherry Brewer Bronfman and Edgar Bronfman Jr., former chief executive officer of Warner Music Group. He has two sisters, Hannah and Vanessa.^[4]

Bronfman lived in London briefly when his father was managing director of Seagram Distilleries Europe. The family returned to New York in 1984 after his father became president of Seagram's US marketing division.^[5]

Bronfman attended Collegiate High School in New York City, graduating in 2000.^{[citation needed]} He enrolled in Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts where he studied politics and law.^{[citation needed]}

Environment and technology

In 2007, Bronfman became interested in direct carbon dioxide removal from the Earth's atmosphere, teamed up with Columbia University economist Graciela Chichilnisky and founded Global Thermostat, where he is a founding partner and a director.^[6] Global Thermostat completed the construction of its first pilot plant at The Stanford Research Institute in November 2010.^[7] In the year 2018, Bronfman founded DGH, an investment firm for the medical cannabis industry which invested in Bedrocan International. He then contributed as a member of the board of directors from 2018 - 2023 at Bedrocan International., a pharmaceutically focused medical cannabis API supply company in Europe.^{[citation needed]}

Music

A music enthusiast since his childhood, Bronfman met Gunnar Olsen in high school and both performed in various bands. One of those bands became an early incarnation of The Exit in 2000 when Bronfman met Jeff DaRosa while attending Emerson College in Boston. The Exit is a critically acclaimed, New York City-based Indie / Post-Punk / Reggae group released two albums.^{[citation needed]}

Bronfman received a Grammy nomination for Best rap song for his collaborative contribution to Kanye West's single "New Slaves" featured on the album Yeezus.^[8] He co-produced the track "Monster" which was included on Kanye West's Grammy Award-winning album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

Bronfman is the founder of Green Owl, which claims to be the world's first sustainability-focused record label.^[9]

Albums
Year	Album	Track List
2002	New Beat	Worthless Lonely Man's wallet Sit and wait Scream and shout Trapped Find me Still waiting When I'm Free Defacto Question the Chorus Watertown
2004	Home for an Island	Don't Push Let's go down the Haiti Back to the Rebels Home for an Island Pressure cooker Tell me all again The sun will rise in Queens Soldier Warm summer days Darlin So leave then Already gone

EPs
Year	Title
2004	Sing four favorites
2006	The live session EP (iTunes exclusive release)

Music video
Year	Title	Directed by
2002	Lonely Man's wallet	Major Lightner
2004	Let's go to Haiti	Major Lightner
2005	Don't push	Terry Timley
2005	Soldier	Lightner
2006	Back to the Rebels	Lightner and Javier Hernandez

Personal life

Bronfman met British rapper M.I.A. in 2008. They became engaged and M.I.A. gave birth to their son on February 13, 2009.^[10] In February 2012, it was announced that the two had separated.^[11]