Andrew Fleiss joins Beat the Streets New York Wrestling Board of Directors

The New York City native credits to the lessons he learned from wrestling to his success.

Beat the Streets Wrestling, Inc. is proud to announce Andrew Fleiss as the newest member of its Board of Directors. 

Fleiss is a Partner at Hudson Ferry Capital, where he focuses on sourcing, structuring and creating value in private equity investments. Prior to Hudson Ferry Capital, he spent more than 20 years in senior positions at GP Investments making private equity investments and managing a special purpose acquisition company and at Liberty Partners making investments in lower middle market companies. He began his career in the investment banking division at UBS Warburg.

Fleiss has served on the boards of multiple private and public companies across his career. He received his BS in Psychology from Amherst College. 

The New York City native and alumnus of Horace Mann School and Buckley School competed in wrestling from age 9 until age 18 and enjoyed various merits during his competitive career. Wrestling is a core part of Fleiss, having helped his younger self realize individual maturity, face adversity head-on and develop personal accountability. He credits his success on the mats to a healthy mix of amazing and dedicated coaches, talented and tough wrestling partners and opponents and plain old personal discipline. 

"Joining the Beat the Streets New York Board is an honor and homecoming for me,” Fleiss said. “Wrestling has shaped who I am and taught me maturity, resilience and accountability, all of which are lessons that have stayed with me ever since. I am grateful for the opportunity to help provide New York City boys and girls with the same transformative experiences that meant so much to my own development growing up in the greatest city in the world.”

The BTS Board of Directors is dedicated to supporting the organization’s operations and programs, which provide opportunities – on and off the wrestling mat – for urban youth across New York City’s five boroughs. 

Since being founded in 2005, Beat the Streets has pioneered a movement that now includes 150 individual wrestling programs, a youth league and the first girls high school league. 

BTS works to develop the full human and athletic potential of New York City urban youth and strengthen the city's wrestling culture. We aim to make a lifelong impact on student-athletes through the lessons learned on the wrestling mat -- discipline, perseverance, self-reliance, humility and a strong work ethic. Discover how you can make a meaningful contribution to our work at btsny.org/donate.