Everything to Know About Sheryl Sandberg's Husband Tom Bernthal — Including His Famous Brother

Mar. 15, 2025

Sheryl Sandbergtied the knot withTom Bernthalon Saturday in Wyoming.

Five years after losing her husbandDave Goldbergto a heart attack in 2015, the business executive and philanthropist — who will bestepping downas the Chief Operating Officer of Meta in the fall —got engagedto Bernthal, an accomplished businessman in his own right, in February 2020.

Though Sandberg, 52, spends much of her time in the public eye, her husband flies a bit more under the radar — despite his special Hollywood connection!

Here’s everything to know about Bernthal, 50, the founder and former CEO ofKelton Global, a Los Angeles-based strategic consulting agency.

Sheryl Sandberg and Tom Bernthal.Larissa Cleveland

He’s an Emmy-winning former journalist.

Before Bernthal launched Kelton in 2002, he worked for years as a national producer at NBC News. He worked for the outlet from 1996 to 2002, and won three Emmys over the years, according to hisLinkedInpage. Bernthal lent his skills to shows likeToday,Nightly News, andDeadline, plus networks MSNBC and CNBC.

As explained in his Keltonbiography, he founded the company “with a vision of bringing a journalist’s eye for the human story to the world of insights and strategic marketing,” and has worked with brands like Google, Nike, Target and Starbucks.

Bernthal, who sold his company several years ago, is now on the board of directors at theSheryl Sandberg and Dave Goldberg Family Foundation.

You probably recognize his brother fromThe Punisher.

Jon Bernthal.George Pimentel/Getty

No, you’re not seeing double — if you thought Bernthal looked an awful lot likeThe PunisheractorJon Bernthal, that’s because they’re brothers. Tom is the oldest, and Jon, 45, is the middle; the two also have a younger brother named Nick, who is the chief of the Division of Musculoskeletal Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine atUCLA.

Tom spoke toEsquirein 2018 about Jon’s success, joking that it was “amazing” because “Jon was always the family f— up.”

Brothers Jon and Tom Bernthal.Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock

“There’s like, one legal thing in the world Jon could do — he’d make a great drug dealer — and that’s acting,” Tom told the outlet. “He was lucky. We came from the one family in a million who didn’t throw him out of the house. The thing I remember is he could take over a room even when he was 3. He’s always had that presence.”

It was Tom who helped Jon achieve that success in the first place — he bought his brother a ticket to Los Angeles in 2006 “so he could start over in Hollywood” after getting nowhere with his career in New York City, according toEsquire.

Jon even once joked toGQ, “My older brother [Tom] always says if I had his looks, my career would [have taken off sooner]. But I have no interest in being pretty.”

As for the rest of his family, Tom has three children.

He attended the same high school as former President Barack Obama’s daughters.

Before moving to Los Angeles in 2000, Bernthal was born and raised in Washington D.C., and attended high school atSidwell Friends, the same place from whichBarack Obama’s daughtersSashaandMaliagraduated (andChelsea Clinton, too!).

Bernthal went on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to his LinkedIn profile, and briefly worked in the White House under the Clinton administration before heading to NBC News.

He loves country music — and has turned Sandberg on to it, too.

While Rob Goldberg, Bernthal’s close friend and the matchmaker behind his love connection with Sandberg, previously told PEOPLE that the happy couple are very compatible, there is one thing they didn’t initially agree on.

“I will say the one difference is his love of country music,” says Rob, Sandberg’s former brother in law. “Sheryl has become a country music fan.”

The couple made their public debut at aGarth Brooks concert in July 2019, and later hit aLuke Bryanshow one month later and aFlorida Georgia Lineconcert that November.

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He’s Helped Honor Sandberg’s Late Husband, Whom He Knew

While announcing the 2021 recipients of theDave Goldberg Scholarship, a program established in Goldberg’s honor, Bernthalrecalled his personal relationshipwith Sandberg’s late husband.

“As one of the fortunate ones who had the privilege of knowing Dave personally, I’ve now seen firsthand how this program embodies his spirit of helping others have every opportunity to work hard and accomplish everything possible for themselves,” Bernthal said in a statement. “Each and every class of students amazes me with all they’ve overcome and all they’ve achieved.”

“Finding ways to keep his memory alive — to do the good he would be doing if he were still with us — means the world to our family,” she added.

source: people.com