Know who Todd Boehly is, his Biography, age, wife, net worth, business, company and bid price for Chelsea
The ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine has caused sanctions on Russia and even the sports fraternity has banned a lot of things. From FIFA to UEFA, Russian teams, clubs, players and many more.
Todd Boehly Chelsea Bid News And Price
This also threatens the current owner of Chelsea Roman Abramovich, who is the Russian billionaire and very close to the country’s president Vladimir Putin. The lawyers of Abramovich have urged a few interested ones to bid for the Premier League club.
From Swiss billionaire, Hansjorg Wyss to one of the four bidders is Todd Boehly. Wyss has told Blick, the Swiss newspaper that he is waiting for the right price and opportunity as the price stated by Abramovich is very high. Both the parties are looking to work together to land the club as part of a consortium with selling a club to an American party through a hedge fund looking the ideal way out for Abramovich.
It is not the first time that Boehly will be having a chance to own the Blues as he had already, in 2019 made a £2.2 billion bid to buy Chelsea but it was released by the current owner.
Only these two names have been revealed yet and the other interested ones are yet to be disclosed that could happen ahead of the deadline on Friday.
Todd Boehly Biography, Age, Family, Wife, Business, Company, Assets, Yacht, House, Net Worth
Todd Boehly is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist as well as Co-founder, chairman, Chief Executive Officer and controlling member of Eldridge Industries, a holding company that makes investments in several industries that involves insurance, asset management, technology, sports, media, real estate and the consumer sector founder in 2015.
He invested in the digital technology industry that involved companies namely GoPuff, Dataminr, Al security company AnyVision, digital health platform Wellthy and mobile game developer Tripledot Studios. GoPuff arranged to put up an extra $1 billion in July 2021 took the company from a $14 billion valuation to $15 billion. He also invested in Wealthsimple, a Canadian online investment management service, through Eldridge which valued around $4 billion in 2021 and Stash, a financial technology company valued at $1.4 billion. He also has invested in the food industry and sports.
Talking about sports, he can be the potential owner of the Chelsea Football Club. He, along with Mark Walter amassed a 27% stake in the Los Angeles Lakers together with Philip Anschutz in July 2021 and the Lakers were the third-highest valued team in the NBA with around $5.14 billion.
He already owns the fantasy sports company DraftKings and Esports organisation Cloud9. He is a part-owner of the baseball team Los Angeles Dodgers as well as the Los Angeles Sparks.
Boehly is the interim CEO of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, as of 2021, which is a non-profit organisation of journalists and photographers.
Boehly was a member of the wrestling team while he was in school and won championships in 1990 and 1991. He has three sons named Nick, Zach and Clay. He is married to Katie, who is a fourth-generation William & Mary alumna, is the Co-Founder of the Boehly Center for Excellence in Finance. The 46 year old has three children as well, Nick, Zach and Clay.
Boehly graduated from both the College of William and Mary as well as the London School of Economics.
The US tycoon is said to have a net worth of £4.72 billion.
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