Reed Hastings Parents: Meet Joan Amory Loomis, Wilmot Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings is an American billionaire businessman who is the co-founder and CEO of Netflix.

Reed Hastings was born in the city of Boston, Massachusetts to Joan Amory Loomis, and Wilmot Reed Hastings.

His father, Wilmot Reed Hastings Sr., was a Nixon administration attorney for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and his mother, Joan Amory Loomis, was a Boston debutante from a Social Register family.

Joan Amory earned a B.A. from American University and master’s degrees from Northeastern University and Lesley University.

She worked for the Justice Resource Institute in Boston, co-founded Womens Enterprises, a non-profit organisation that assisted women seeking to enter traditional blue-collar trades, and ran a business importing and selling English pine furniture and accessories.

Joan Amory Loomis was also a strong supporter of the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts, the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, the Treehouse Foundation and the Enchanted Circle Theatre, among other organisations.

His mother Joan, his mother, died peacefully at home in Northampton on November 15th 2010.