{"id":1081326,"date":"2022-05-09T13:26:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/09\/check-out-the-faces-behind-the-consortium-that-have-purchased-chelsea\/"},"modified":"2022-05-09T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:26:59","slug":"check-out-the-faces-behind-the-consortium-that-have-purchased-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/09\/check-out-the-faces-behind-the-consortium-that-have-purchased-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Check-out the faces behind the consortium that have purchased Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"385\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/todd-boehly-claps-220507g1050-696x385.jpg\"   alt=\"Todd Boehly\" title=\"Todd Boehly\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Todd Boehly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s new owners are all but confirmed, with the club\u00a0agreeing terms\u00a0on its \u00a34.25bn ($5.2bn) sale to a consortium led by Todd Boehly.<\/p>\n<p>But who are the key people behind the consortium?<\/p>\n<p>BBC Sport takes a look.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/_124630623_whatsubject.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Boehly\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Todd Boehly leads the consortium. He owns 20% of seven-time baseball World Series champions the LA Dodgers and is also a part-owner of US women\u2019s basketball outfit the Los Angeles Sparks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Together with Mark Walter, he also has a 27% stake in NBA franchise the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Boehly founded Eldridge Industries, a private holding company that invests in multiple industries. Through Eldridge, he has invested in life insurance firms, real estate companies and technology companies, as well as Bruce Springsteen\u2019s song rights and sports betting firm DraftKings.<\/p>\n<p>In the food industry, he has invested in Aurify Brands \u2013 which owns restaurant chains such as Le Pain Quotidien \u2013 as well as American brand Chuck E. Cheese.<\/p>\n<p>He is also the interim chief executive of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.<\/p>\n<p>Clearlake Capital is a Californian private equity firm, which would own a majority of the shares in Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Jose E. Feliciano and Behdad Eghbali, it has more than $72bn (\u00a358bn) of assets under management, and has led or co-led more than 300 investments.<\/p>\n<p>However, none of these to date have been in sport, with its portfolio focusing on the software and technology, energy and food and consumer services industries.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/_124630849_whatsubject.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Walter\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Mark Walter is the chief executive of Guggenheim Partners, a privately held global financial services firm that has headquarters in New York and Chicago. Guggenheim Partners has more than $310bn (\u00a3250bn) in assets under management.<\/p>\n<p>Like Boehly, Walter, 61, is also a co-owner of the LA Dodgers, who won the 2020 World Series, and has a stake in the LA Lakers. In 2012, he was named the eighth most influential person in sports business by the Sports Business Journal.<\/p>\n<p>His personal investments include stakes in plant-based food maker Beyond Meat and online car vendor Carvana.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife also own a wildlife preserve in Florida, which features threatened and endangered species.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/_124630488_whatsubject.jpg\" alt=\"Hansjoerg Wyss\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Swiss billionaire Hansjoerg Wyss is worth $5bn (\u00a34bn) and amassed his fortune through the sale of his medical device manufacturer Synthes to Johnson &#038; Johnson in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He holds stakes in biotech companies Novocure and Molecular Partners.<\/p>\n<p>According to Forbes, 86-year-old Wyss is \u201camong the most philanthropic people in the world\u201d, signing The Giving Pledge in 2013 and therefore agreeing to give away the majority of his fortune.<\/p>\n<p>He has made major donations to environmental and scientific causes, with the assets of his charitable foundations totalling nearly $2bn (\u00a31.6bn).<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, he pledged $120m to two Swiss universities, the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, to help establish a centre to accelerate medical breakthroughs, while he wrote in the New York Times in 2018 that he would donate $1bn to conservation efforts around the world over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The consortium also includes American PR executive Barbara Charone, British businessman Jonathan Goldstein and British journalist Daniel Finkelstein.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"xfkTK9tS1mY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau at 10AM on Adom TV (9-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xfkTK9tS1mY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Boehly Chelsea\u2019s new owners are all but confirmed, with the club\u00a0agreeing terms\u00a0on its \u00a34.25bn ($5.2bn) sale to a consortium led by Todd Boehly. 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