Jeffrey Rosen (businessman)

Rosen was born in Brooklyn, New York, raised in Queens, New York, and West Orange, New Jersey, and is Jewish.^[5][6][7][8] He attended West Essex High School in New Jersey.^[5]

He then attended Northeastern University.^[2] There, Rosen earned a political science degree.^[5]

Rosen was the President, COO, and owner (with his brother Lawrence and father Sydney) of Rose Art Industries Inc., a toys, stationery, and art and crafts manufacturing and supply company based in Livingston, New Jersey, from 1977 to 2006.^{[9][6][10][2]} His grandfather had founded the company in 1923.^[11] He and his brother and father sold the company in 2005 for approximately $350 million, at a time when it had 1,000 employees and 10% of the US arts and crafts market, behind only Crayola.^[10][11]

Thereafter, Rosen founded, and is the chairman and owner of, Triangle Financial Services LLC, of Aventura, Florida, a sports and entertainment investment firm.^[2][10][6] It invests internationally in sports enterprises, and sponsors a Hong Kong semi-pro baseball team (the Dragonfliers).^[12]

Rosen actively tried to promote baseball in Israel.^[10][13]

In July 2007 Rosen purchased the Maccabi Haifa basketball team.^[3][12][7] He also owns the Miami Midnites basketball team, which he founded and conceived of as a feeder minor league team for Maccabi Haifa, which plays in the Florida Basketball Association and the American Basketball Association.^[14][15][16]

He now lives in Aventura, Florida.^[10][16][17]