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[Ciggy]

John W. Henry - Principal Owner
Thomas C. Werner - Chairman
Thomas R. DiBenedetto
Michael Egan
David Ginsberg
Michael Gordon
John A. Kaneb
Seth Klarman
Larry Lucchino
Henry F. McCance
Phillip H. Morse
The New York Times Company
Art Nicholas
Frank Resnek
Martin Trust
Jeffrey Vinik

Some info

Thomas C. Werner - Chairman
Thomas Charles "Tom" Werner (born April 12, 1950 in New York City, New York) is the Chairman of the Boston Red Sox, as well as an American television producer and businessman.

Werner was born in to a wealthy New York area family. He was educated at The Hotchkiss School, one of the nation's elite private schools, and earned an English degree from Harvard University. In 1973, Werner entered television by working for ABC-TV. In 1975, he became the Director of East Coast Prime Time Development. Werner was promoted to senior vice president of the prime time development department in 1979. While at ABC Werner and his partner Marcy Carsey saw Robin Williams in a Comedy Club and launched "Mork & Mindy". Werner also oversaw the development of "Bosom Buddies" which started the career of Tom Hanks, as well as "Soap" which started the career of Billy Crystal and "Taxi" which started the career of Danny DeVito.

Werner co-founded The Carsey-Werner Company with Marcy Carsey in 1980. In this capacity he served as executive producer of such television programs as The Cosby Show, Roseanne, 3rd Rock from the Sun and That 70s Show and other successful hits. Werner made nearly $600 million selling episodes of The Cosby Show for syndication. In 1999, he was honored at the Museum of Television and Radio.

In 1990, Werner entered the world of sports by purchasing the San Diego Padres from Joan Kroc. Werner bought the Padres with 14 other investors and partners. Werner often used the team to help promote his television programs, such as when he invited Rosanne Barr to perform the national anthem. At one point during his tenure, Werner's Padres traded many players in a rumored attempt to lower salary. Fred McGriff and Gary Sheffield were the two most popular players dealt, though Sheffield's trade brought legendary closer Trevor Hoffman to the team. While unpopular at the time, the Padres did win the National League Pennant in 1998.

In December, 1994 Werner and his partners sold most of their interest in the Padres to John Moores.

During the administration of President Bill Clinton Werner and Carsey were close friends and frequent advisors to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.

In 2000 Werner, Carsey, and longtime partner Caryn Mandabach joined Oprah Winfrey to start Oxygen, a 24 cable channel serving the modern woman.

Werner is currently Chairman and, along with John Henry, co-owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball club. He and Henry paid $660 million for the franchise in February 2002, purchasing also Fenway Park and the New England Sports Network from the Yawkey Family Trust, managed by John Harrington. The Red Sox won two World Series since he became co-owner, in 2004 and 2007.

For a time, Werner was romantically involved with television host Katie Couric, then-host of Today, now lead anchor of the CBS Evening News.

Werner has completed a bid with New England Sports Network for English Premier league team Liverpool FC


Thomas R. DiBenedetto
Director
Alexander's Inc.
Paramus , NJ
Sector: FINANCIAL / Property Management

60 Years Old
Thomas R. DiBenedetto, President of Boston International Group, Inc. (an investment management firm) since 1983; President of Junction Investors Ltd. (an investment management firm) since 1992; Chairman of the Board of Jefferson Watermann International (a business intelligence firm); Managing Director of Olympic Partners (a real estate investment firm); a director of Detwiler, Mitchell & Co. (a securities firm) and of NWH, Inc. (a software company) until 2006.

Michael Egan
Occupation: Founder & Managing Member
Employer: Carruth Management, LLC
Home: Hopkinton, MA
Michael and Christopher Egan are Pioneer sons of Pioneer Richard Egan (* apparantly worth 1.3B in 2006 *), who co-founded data-storage equipment maker EMC Corp. in 1979. After graduating from college, Michael Egan became EMC’s sixth employee in 1983. Going relatively independent, Michael and Christopher Egan formed real estate investment firm Carruth Capital in 1991. Carruth Capital owns and manages more than 3 million square feet of commercial real estate, with the federal government leasing $424,000 worth in fiscal 2002. Michael Egan then founded private investment firm Carruth Management in 1994. Meanwhile, EMC stock ranked second only to Dell Computer among S&P 500 companies during the go-go 1990s. In that heyday Michael Egan expressed an interest in buying part of the Boston Red Sox. Long after it became a major corporation, EMC clung to an inbred board dominated by Egan’s family and pals. One independent board member was muscled out in 1999 after questioning whether Richard Egan and other executives awarded themselves excessive compensation. In other insider deals, EMC disclosed in 2003 that it paid: $2.2 million in rent to the Egans’ Carruth Capital; $612,429 in insurance payments to Richard Egan’s brother-in-law; and $75,000 to a software company in which a third Egan son was a shareholder and director. An EMC share that traded for more than $100 before the bubble burst fetched less than $5 in 2002, when EMC lost $119 million. The Center for Responsive Politics reported in 2003 that the Egan family gave $900,000 to federal candidates and PACs over the preceding five years, with 91 percent going to Republicans. Richard Egan and his two Pioneer sons hosted a Bush fundraiser headlined by Dick Cheney that raised $1.2 million in 2003. “I have gotten my picture taken with the president twice,” Michael Egan told the Center for Responsive Politics. Each time it took less than three seconds. He doesn’t know who the hell I am.” Richard and Michael Egan also manage Cape Clear LLC, an aircraft investment firm. Carruth Capital had federal office lease contracts worth $424,000 in fiscal 2002.

David Ginsberg]

Mr. Ginsberg is the Managing Director of the Special Opportunities Group at Tudor Investment Corp. Previously he served as Special Advisor to the Chairman and as a Director at John W. Henry & Company ("JWH"), a hedge fund specializing in managed futures, from 1999 until 2002. Before joining JWH, he was a private investor and consultant.

At Global Asset Management ("GAM") in London, Mr. Ginsberg started and served as the Managing Director of the Multi-Manager Group from its inception in 1989 until 1995, during that period and presently one of the largest fund of hedge funds groups. Prior to joining GAM, he was the Vice President in charge of the Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory Group at the National Westminster Bank USA. Mr. Ginsberg is also Vice Chairman of the Boston Red Sox and New England Sports Ventures, the holding company which owns the Boston Red Sox, New England Sports Network (NESN) and a 50% interest in Roush Fenway Racing. He was previously Vice Chairman of the Florida Marlins .

Mr. Ginsberg is also on the Board of Directors of The Adelphi Europe Fund, the Adelphi European Small Cap Fund and The Adelphi Emerging Europe Fund. Mr. Ginsberg received a B.A. from Kenyon College in 1977. In 1981 he received an MBA, with a concentration in Finance, from the Boston University Graduate School of Management.

John A. Kaneb

John A. Kaneb is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of HP Hood LLC as well as the president of the Catamount Companies.
[edit] Career

Kaneb bought a controlling interest in Gulf Oil and tripled its sales to US$4.6 billion before selling it in 2005. The Kaneb family acquired HP Hood LLC in 1995 and increased its annual sales from US$600 million to about US$2.3 billion. Kaneb is also part owner of the Boston Red Sox; Hood blimps are often seen over home games.[1]
[edit] Positions and appointments

Besides his business work Kaneb is a Trustee Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. He is also an Emeritus Trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Emeritus Trustee and former Chairman of the Board of McLean Hospital. He has worked on other boards and groups including the Board of Fellows of the Harvard Medical School.[2] He was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission in 2004.[3] He is currently the vice-chair of that commission.[2]


Seth Klarman

Seth Klarman is the founder and president of the Baupost Group, a Boston-based private investment partnership, and the author of a book on value investing.
Before founding Baupost, Klarman worked for Max Heine and Michael Price of the Mutual Shares fund (now a part of Franklin Templeton Investments). He founded the Baupost Group in 1982, which managed USD 22 Billion as of 2010 [1]. Despite his unconventional strategies, he has consistently achieved high returns.[2] He is a very conservative investor, and often holds a significant amounts of cash in his investment portfolios, sometimes in excess of 50% of the total.[3] He often makes unusual investments, buying unpopular assets while they are undervalued, using complex derivatives, and buying put options. Klarman typically keeps a low profile, rarely speaking in public or granting interviews. He has recently, however, spoken pessimistically about the stock market and warned of future inflation.[4]

In 1991, Klarman authored Margin of Safety, Risk Averse Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor, which since has become a value investing classic. Now out of print, Margin of Safety has sold on Amazon for $1,200 and eBay for $2,000.[5]
[edit] Education

Klarman is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Business School.[6] At Cornell, he was a member of the Delta Chi fraternity, where he commonly studied while watching TV in the fraternity library/TV room. Despite this unorthodox study style, he achieved Phi Beta Kappa.


Larry Lucchino

Lawrence Lucchino, (born September 6, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is the current President and CEO of the Boston Red Sox, and a member of John W. Henry's ownership group.
Larry Lucchino, left, reacts to a sacrificial Baby Ruth bar, presented by two US Army soldiers in 2005

Lucchino graduated from Princeton University in 1967, and later attended Yale Law School.

At Princeton, Lucchino, an athlete in his own right, was on the basketball team with Bill Bradley who later became an NBA star and United States Senator from New Jersey. After law school, Lucchino practiced law with the Washington, D. C. law firm of Williams & Connolly. The founder, famed litigator, Edward Bennett Williams, had ownership interest in both the Washington Redskins and the Baltimore Orioles. Lucchino's law practice at Williams & Connolly included a substantial amount of work for those two sports teams. Through that work he ultimately became President/CEO of the Baltimore Orioles and later, the San Diego Padres. Under his watch, both teams built new stadiums Oriole Park at Camden Yards and Petco Park.
[edit] Other information

Lucchino was named as the Commencement speaker for Boston University's 2008 graduating class and Bryant University's Class of 2009.[1] He was also a guest speaker at New England School of Law's 2008 graduation ceremony.

Lucchino is the only man known to have World Series rings (Orioles ’83, Red Sox ’04 and ’07), a Super Bowl ring (Redskins ’83) and a Final Four watch (Princeton, ’65)



Henry F. McCance


Mr. Henry F. McCance is the Chairman Emeritus at Greylock Partners. He joined the firm in 1969 and focuses on the software sector while overseeing Greylock’s strategic direction. Mr. McCance was responsible for Greylock’s early involvement in the software industry with his backing of market-leading firms including: American Management Systems, Pansophic, Cullinane, McCormack and Dodge, and VM Software. He came to Greylock after serving for two years in the Office of ... the Secretary of Defense. Throughout his 40 year career, Mr. McCance raised a series of 11 partnerships with current committed capital in excess of $2.2 billion and helped build approximately 300 developing companies. He is currently on the Board of Praecis Pharmaceuticals and Trilogy. Mr. McCance is a Member of Advisory Board of Cue Ball Venture Strategies and The Cue Ball Group, LLC. He also served on the Board of Greylock. In addition, Mr. McCance served on the Board of Directors of Continental Cablevision for 25 years. He is a Member of Board of Advisors at The Yale School of Management. Mr. McCance received the National Venture Capital Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in May 2004 and, along with Greylock's founding partners, the Harvard Business School Award for Alumni Achievement in 2003. In 2000, he was voted one of the country's ten best VCs by Forbes. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Business School.


Phillip H. Morse

The Boston Globe's Farah Stockman has a great piece today on a Gulf Stream used for extraordinary rendition that is owned by one of the Boston Red Sox owners:

Team vice chairman Phillip H. Morse, a businessman who made a fortune developing cardiac catheters, leases the Gulfstream IV jet with a Hudson, N.Y., charter agent when he is not using it. The jet sometimes has a small Red Sox logo on the fuselage near the door.

The jet, which used registration number N85VM and now uses N227SV, was spotted in Cairo on Feb. 18, 2003, shortly after a suspected extremist preacher disappeared from his home in Milan in a case that Italian prosecutors are investigating as a kidnapping, according to the Chicago Tribune...

The preacher, known as Abu Omar, but whose given name is Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan, was also taken to the Cairo airport the same day in 2003, the Tribune reported. The newspaper also reported that the plane has made at least 51 trips between June 2002 and January to the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where the United States is holding about 540 people at the base as terror suspects.

Omar called his relatives months later to say that Italian and American agents had kidnapped him and flown him to Cairo, where he was tortured, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica and Italian government documents.

Update: "Phillip H. Morse, a minority partner of the Boston Red Sox, confirmed yesterday that his private jet has been chartered to the CIA and said he was aware that it had been flown to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where more than 500 terrorism suspects are held, as well as other overseas destinations..."


The New York Times Company



Art Nicholas
Co-founder, Nicholas Applegate Capital Management; co-founder and senior partner, Nicholas Investment Partners

Estimated net worth: $640 million

Arthur E. Nicholas, 63, with $640 million in assets, is ranked by the Business Journal as No. 5 on the San Diego's Wealthiest list remaining in the same position as last year when his wealth was estimated at $750 million. Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management in San Diego, the privately owned investment management firm that he co-founded in 1984, had $45 billion under management when he sold it to Allianz AG in 2000. Nicholas was the firm's chairman and CEO at the time of purchase by the German company, and he remained on the executive committee for a brief time after that.

His innovative approach included the systematic use of dynamic quantitative models to improve investment performance. The firm that Nicholas built continues to operate today under the prestigious Nicholas-Applegate name as a San Diego-based division of Allianz Global Investors. With nearly 155,000 employees worldwide, Allianz serves approximately 75 million customers in about 70 countries.

Meanwhile, Nicholas has reinvented himself at Nicholas Investment Partners in Del Mar, a 100 percent employee-owned firm he co-founded with his wife, Catherine, in 2006. The company's assets are estimated at $256 million.

The couple is linked to Wagonhound Land & Livestock Co. LLC, a 150,000-acre ranch in Douglas, Wyo., that raises cattle, breeds horses and provides outfitting services for hunting. Nicholas serves on the board for the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, and the couple supports the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association.

Frank Resnek

Red Sox Principal Owner John Henry's ownership group "now includes four previously unidentified limited partners with New England roots, several of whom, like Henry, made their fortunes as wildly successful money managers," according to Meg Vaillancourt of the BOSTON GLOBE, who noted the new partners are Jeffrey Vinik, Michael Gordon, Michael Egan and Frank Resnek. While team officials declined comment on the new partners, the only confirmation that Vinik and Gordon "have invested in the Sox was the fact that their names appear in the team's media guide." Vinik headed his own money management company, Vinik Asset Management, after serving as a fund manager for Fidelity Magellan. Gordon was a partner in Vinik Asset Management. Egan, "an avid Red Sox fan," is the son of EMC Corp. Founder Richard Egan, who is now ambassador to Ireland. Resnek is an exec at MA-based real estate holdings investment group Churchill Forge Properties. The team's remaining limited partners include Philip Morse, San Diego-based money manager Arthur Nicholas, The New York Times Co., Boston-based ad exec Ed Eskandarian, and business execs Ben Camarratta and Marty Trust. Henry, Red Sox Chair Tom Werner and President & CEO Larry Lucchino "are eagerly wooing additional local partners." On Saturday, Henry "entertained ... sponsors as well as the team's partners aboard his yacht" (BOSTON GLOBE, 3/17). Also in Boston, Bob Hohler wrote that "in yet another reminder that it's a new day in Red Sox country," Henry and Lucchino on Friday "held their first round-table talk with players." Pedro Martinez, Tim Wakefield, Nomar Garciaparra and Tony Clark attended for what "appeared to be more of a casual chat than an in-depth analysis of player concerns"

Martin Trust
Director
Virtusa Corporation
Westborough , MA
Sector: TECHNOLOGY / Information Technology Services

75 Years Old
Martin Trust has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2004. Mr. Trust is chief executive officer of Samtex (USA), Inc., a holding company engaged in the production of apparel and textile products, a position he has held since October 2003. Mr. Trust was senior advisor to Limited Brands, a retailer of apparel and personal care products, from 2001 to October 2003. Prior to that, Mr. Trust served as president and chief executive officer of Mast Industries, Inc., a contract manufacturer, importer and wholesaler of women's apparel and wholly-owned subsidiary of Limited Brands, from 1970 to 2001. Mr. Trust has served in the capacity of cleared advisor to the United States Department of Commerce with regard to textile trade issues. Mr. Trust was a member of the board of directors of Staples, Inc. from 1987 to 2009. Mr. Trust brings to the board of directors many years of executive management and leadership experience and provides invaluable advice and input regarding our strategic and financial affairs.

Jeffrey Vinik

Jeffrey N. Vinik (born March 22, 1959) is the current owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning and a minority owner of the Boston Red Sox.


Vinik was born in Deal, N.J[2] He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University in 1981 with a bachelor of science in civil engineering.[3] He also obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1985.

Vinik managed the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1992 to 1996. After leaving Fidelity, he started a hedge fund called Vinik Asset Management. He made investors 93.8% in his first 11 months and approximately 50% a year for the next three years. At the end of 2000, Vinik returned investors $4.2 billion and focused on managing his own portfolio.

Vinik and his wife, Penny, donated $5 million to Duke's engineering school.[5]

[f9Torres]

DiBenedetto, Lucchino...

[andy_g]

how the frig are we going to keep tabs on that lot?

[laza]

Google them Andy just like Parry should have done to Hicks and G three years ago

[NANNY RED]

New owners at Melwood

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news....?ref=nf

[Tim LFC]

Wow that's a lot of people, i wonder if they'll actually invest in LFC though it's nice knowing it's not just John Henry.

[redsoxfan]

The three most important ones coming from the Red Sox are Henry, Lucchino and Werner. Henry you all pretty much know about now. Werner is also a very nice guy and is the marketing brains of the Sox. Lucchino is the sharp baseball man who also headed the building of the new Camden Yards park for Baltimore and the renovation of Fenway Park. I suspect he'll be a key person in determining the future of Anfield or a new stadium. And if this were a Mafia movie, Lucchino would be the top hitman.  He's the one who gets confrontational with other teams.  I suspect he'll call Manchester United the Evil Empire, just like he did to the NY Yankees.

I have no idea who the others are.

[Kopite25]

Just one other point but apparently the New York Times company own upto  a20% stake in NESV.

Carlos Slim Helu (worlds richest man worth $60billion) owns 20% of New York Times group and is currently negotiating a full take over there.

There are lots of rumours floating around in financial & legal circles at present that he is the guy behind NESV in this takeover.

Now I unlike Lakes don't claim to have friends in these circles lol but the more I read about NESV and this take over the more the backing of a wealthy family keeps popping up!!!

[Bad Bob]

This is a good basis for a new thread about the owners, with the existing Takeover Thread edging ever closer to retirement.  A fresh start calls for a fresh thread, I say.

[Tim LFC]

Just one other point but apparently the New York Times company own upto  a20% stake in NESV.

Carlos Slim Helu (worlds richest man worth $60billion) owns 20% of New York Times group and is currently negotiating a full take over there.

There are lots of rumours floating around in financial & legal circles at present that he is the guy behind NESV in this takeover.

Now I unlike Lakes don't claim to have friends in these circles lol but the more I read about NESV and this take over the more the backing of a wealthy family keeps popping up!!!

Wow, the worlds richest man wanted to buy us?

[Reg]

Carlos Slim the Mexican is a closet LFC supporter.... someone talk me through that one slowly....

[maypaxvobiscum]

Carlos Slim the Mexican is a closet LFC supporter.... someone talk me through that one slowly....

he owns a share in New York Times, and they are part of the NESV consortium buying us.

[Madmax]

This is a good basis for a new thread about the owners, with the existing Takeover Thread edging ever closer to retirement.  A fresh start calls for a fresh thread, I say.

yes i agree bobby!    With the new takeover we might aswel have new mods here aswel.

[Kopite25]

Just been on RAWK and John Henry actually invited 3 of the mods on their to meet him in person this morning.

No big supprises to what he said apparently but they all came away very impressed with him personally and it has surely to be a good sign of things to come that he's met with some fans within 24hrs of the takeover ( you'd think he may have been too busy )

Like the sound of these guys more and more

[Kopite25]

in fact below is the 1st post from that thread from one of the mod's



Well, we've all had a great laugh at Tom Hicks and his "militant organised internet terrorism" jibe but it seems that it's not only Tom who has noticed the efforts that all the lads behind SaveLFC and the various campaigns on here have put in. It seems that John W. Henry was also watching, and thanks to a combination of SmithdownAndy's guile, cheek  and charm, this morning we got a surprise invite to have an informal chat with the new owner. Three of us went down; Andy, Ray (Shanklyboy) and myself.

I think the most important thing to take from the meeting is the fact that he invited us at all. It shows where he is as a man, he wants to listen, he wants to know what we think, he wants to do all this away from the glare of the media. We spent about an hour chatting to him about what Liverpool means to us and what we want from him. We have no revelations about his plans for the club because that's not his style, no big promises of spades in the ground, just an admission that there is a big job to do and that he's still learning.  I think that all three of us left quietly impressed by his style and his commitment to learn and do things the right way.

There will be a full press release on savelfc.org later today.

Anyway, he has opened a channel of communication, so lets see if we can use it. If you had one question that you could ask our new owner, what would it be?