Stewart Resnick

Stewart Resnick is chairman, president, and co-owner—along with his wife, Lynda Resnick—of The Wonderful Company, a privately held global company committed to providing high-quality, healthy brands and helping improve the lives of the people who live and work in the communities where it operates. Its iconic brands include Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds, Wonderful Halos, Wonderful Seedless Lemons, POM Wonderful, FIJI Water, Teleflora, and JUSTIN, Landmark, and Lewis Cellars wines. Headquartered in Los Angeles, The Wonderful Company has major operations in California’s Central Valley and Fiji.

Every year, nearly half of American households purchase products from The Wonderful Company. Wonderful grows, harvests, bottles, packages, and markets a diverse range of products including fruits, nuts, flowers, water, wines, and juices. It is the world’s leading grower of tree nuts and America’s largest citrus grower, operates the nation’s largest flower delivery service, and is a market leader in wines, bottled water, and pomegranate juice.

Resnick is a committed philanthropist. Through their foundation and The Wonderful Company, he and Lynda have invested more than $2.6 billion in education, health and wellness, community development, and sustainability initiatives, focused on the communities where its employees live and work.

Resnick sits on the Board of Trustees for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where the Resnick Sustainability Institute advances global sustainability through transformational science, engineering, and education. In September 2019, the Resnicks made history with a $750 million pledge to Caltech—at the time, the largest gift ever for sustainability research, the largest in Caltech history, and the second largest to any U.S. academic institution. In October 2022, the Resnicks announced a $50 million pledge to establish the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Center for Agricultural Innovation and to support annual byproduct research grants through the Resnick Agricultural Innovation Research Fund at the University of California, Davis. In December 2022, the Resnicks pledged a $50 million gift to accelerate the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s sustainability and catalysis research and development to combat climate change and protect the planet for future generations.

Their many other philanthropic contributions include major gifts to UCLA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, and the Aspen Institute.

He is also a recipient of an honorary degree from California State University, Fresno, and sits on the Boards of Bard College and Conservation International.