Steven M. Tuttleman, JD
David Z. Tuttleman
With a family history rooted in operating successful business entities, David Z. Tuttleman has excelled for more than 35 years across a variety of industries.
Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, David graduated Philadelphia University and worked in leadership positions in his family’s businesses, focusing on apparel production and retail. The company started as Corner House, a chain of 1970’s discount stores, and then became Mast Industries, the Limited store’s worldwide resource.
At Mast, David worked on developing production offices across Asia. In the early 90’s David worked to create a retail chain called Midshipman, a private label clothing company where he spearheaded a team of designers and merchants. He left the family business to build Frugal Fannies—a chain of women’s only, weekend warehouse stores. David and his partner grew the chain to six stores and $80,000,000 in sales.
In 1995, David shifted his focus to hospitality, and founded Kahunaville, a tropical oasis combining dining with entertainment and a nightclub-like atmosphere. He grew the chain to 15 themed restaurants across the country, including Wilmington DE and Treasure Island Casino on the Las Vegas strip.
In 2012, David lost his sister Jan to brain cancer. He watched as traditional medicine was unable to help her, and how medical marijuana allowed her to find some peace and comfort. This sparked David’s interest and lead him to create Matrix NV, a licensed medical and recreational marijuana growing and processing company located in Las Vegas. As CEO of Matrix NV, David oversees every aspect of the company, including cultivation, product development, sales, marketing, security, inventory control, and compliance.
In addition to his business interests, David is a Trustee of the Tuttleman Foundation, and through his leadership, leads many initiatives in the Philadelphia and Wilmington areas.
David resides in Wilmington, DE and spends his free time with wife Kristine and his four children.
Jan was raised in Bala-Cynwyd, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. After earning her undergraduate degree at Boston University, she attended the University of Pennsylvania where she earned a PhD degree in Microbiology. In 1989, Jan moved to San Francisco, where she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Director of the National Cancer Institute and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Harold Varmus. Jan also earned an MBA at UCSD Rady School of Management, where she was awarded the UCSD “Distinguished Leadership” Alumna Award in 2012 in recognition of the honor she brought to the University.
Above all, she was a loving mother to her precious daughters Sophie and Emma.
Jan left a long legacy within the San Diego community and beyond as a leader, philanthropist, scientist, entrepreneur, angel investor, human rights champion, and mentor. Jan attributed her leadership and commitment to charitable giving to her parents, Edna and Stanley Tuttleman, longstanding philanthropists within the Philadelphia community.
Jan was enthusiastic about leveraging her business savvy and operational expertise to benefit the San Diego community. Jan served as Chair of the Jewish Federation of San Diego, and as a prominent board member of the Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, Jewish Community Foundation, Vision of Children, and the Rady School of Management Alumni Association, among others. Jan developed a particular interest in women’s issues, and was determined to improve the lives of women of all ages and across socio-economic classes. She was the Founding Chair of the San Diego Jewish Women’s Foundation, and formed, along with others, Women Give San Diego, a donor circle dedicated to the self-sufficiency and economic security of women and girls in San Diego.
She also invested in San Diego based biotechnology companies, including Huya International, Althea Technologies, Dermtec and Tocagen.
Jan personally contributed to a better understanding of the disease which ultimately claimed her life, glioblastoma, by agreeing to be a patient in several clinical trials—including a gene therapy from Tocagen—to bring new hope to others battling advanced brain cancer.
Stanley C. Tuttleman was born in Philadelphia PA. He received his college degree from University of Chicago. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star.
After the war, he founded several men’s shirts operations before entering the women’s clothing manufacturing and retail business. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, he opened what are considered to be the first outlet stores, in Philadelphia and Salisbury, MD. In the early 1970s, he co-founded Mast Industries, one of the world’s largest international clothing manufacturers, before selling it to the Limited in 1979. In 1984 he founded a private equity firm along with his son Steven, and made investments in companies including Five Below, Performance Bicycle, Ebonite International, and Ginsey Industries.
Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell called him “an incredible philanthropist and benefactor for arts, culture, and education.” With his wife Edna, he funded the Tuttleman Contemporary Art Gallery at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Franklin Institute’s Tuttleman Omniverse Theater; the Tuttleman Sculpture Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; the Tuttleman Library at Gratz College; the Tuttleman Imaging Center at Graduate Hospital; the Tuttleman Learning Center at Temple University; and the Tuttleman Chapel at Temple Adath Israel.
Stanley sat on the board of many institutions including The Franklin Institute; Philadelphia Orchestra; Graduate Hospital; Temple Adath Israel; Philadelphia University; Gratz College; Free Library of Philadelphia; Creative Artists Network; Fairmount Park Art Commission; and Glaucoma Service Foundation to Prevent Blindness.
Stanley Tuttleman never retired. At the age of 70 he began biking thousands of miles with the AKs, a senior citizen group named after a Yiddish term for old-timers. He rode from border to border in Colorado’s Ride the Rockies for three consecutive years and biked in Israel, Vienna, and Prague. He claimed to be the oldest person to compete in the Assault on Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina, the tallest mountain in the eastern U.S.
Born and raised in Northeast Philadelphia, Edna graduated Temple University in 1942, where she was the first woman to be elected president of the student body. She proudly served with the WAVES during World War II, decoding and encoding sensitive information for the Navy, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant.
After the war, she studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She married Stanley Tuttleman, a Philadelphia-based entrepreneur in clothing manufacturing and retailing. The two settled in Bala Cynwyd, PA. While raising five children, she managed the financial and clothing design operations at Corner House, one of the family’s retail and manufacturing companies.
In a proclamation issued after her death, the City of Philadelphia said Mrs. Tuttleman “generously supported the agencies and institutions that allow the public to experience the richness of Philadelphia’s cultural heritage”.
An avid art collector and benefactor to art institutions in Philadelphia, she was an ardent supporter of the arts. She served as Board President of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Board President at the Institute of Contemporary Art at The University of Pennsylvania. She also served for many decades on the board of Temple University. President of Temple Neil Theobald issued a statement saying that “Students at Temple have a better leaning experience because of the commitment of the Edna Tuttleman and the Tuttleman Family”.