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Todd Boehly

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Todd Boehly
Chairman of Chelsea Football Club
Assumed office
20 June 2022
Preceded byBruce Buck
Personal details
Born
Todd Lawrence Boehly

(1973-09-20) September 20, 1973 (age 53)
United States
Height5'10
Children3
Alma mater
ProfessionBusinessman
Investor
Known for

Todd Lawrence Boehly (born 20 September 1973) is an American businessman and investor. He founded and leads the holding company Eldridge Industries, and the asset management company Eldridge.[1] He is also the chairman of Premier League club Chelsea[2] and co-owner of Ligue 1 football club Strasbourg. He had a net worth of $9.3 billion in 2026.[3]

Early life

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Boehly comes from Virginia. His father was an engineer and his mother was a teacher.[4] Boehly studied at Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland. He graduated in 1991.[5] He graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1996 with a bachelor's degree. Later, he studied at the London School of Economics in England.[6]

Career

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Boehly started his career working at Citibank, Credit Suisse First Boston, and J.H. Whitney & Company. In 2001, he started working at Guggenheim Partners with billionaire Mark Walter. Boehly helped to grow the company and became its president in 2010.[7]

In 2015, Boehly made his own company, Eldridge Industries. He bought some companies from Guggenheim Partners, like Security Benefit Life Insurance, The Hollywood Reporter, and Dick Clark Productions.[5][8] Eldridge Industries has a main office in Miami and other offices in New York City, Greenwich, Connecticut, London, Beverly Hills, Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas.[9]

Boehly helped to found multiple companies, including Cain, a real estate company co-owned by Eldridge Industries.[8] His company Eldridge Industries owns and invests in many other companies for technology, entertainment, sports, and consumer goods.[7] Boehly invested in the artificial intelligence company Metropolis Technologies, which is also the largest parking company in North America.[10]

In 2025, he founded a new company called Eldridge, which had $70 billion in assets. The company is owned by Eldridge Industries and Boehly is its chairman.[11]

Magazines like Forbes, Bloomberg, and the Los Angeles Times have said that Boehly is one of the most important businesspeople in the world.[12][13] He is a billionaire, with a net worth of $9.3 billion in 2026.[3]

Boehly is a part of the board of directors for other companies, like Cain, Kennedy Wilson, PayActiv, Vivid Seats and CAIS.[14][15]

Sports

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Boehly owns 20% of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.[5] He and Mark Walter own 27% of the Los Angeles Lakers.[16][17] The Dodgers won the 2020 World Series and 2024 World Series after Boehly became part owner, and more people have watched the game.[18] He also owns part of the Los Angeles Sparks women's basketball team.[19] He is an owner of Cloud9, an esports organization.[20]

In 2022, Boehly was part of a group of people and businesses that bought the Premier League football club Chelsea.[21] He is Chelsea's chairman, and was its interim sporting director from 2022 until 2023.[22] In 2025, Chelsea won the FIFA Club World Cup.[23]

In 2023, he bought a majority stake in French Ligue 1 football club Strasbourg.[24]

Film and music

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In 2020, Boehly founded a joint venture with Penske Media Corporation.[25] The combined companies owned the magazines Billboard, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Music Business Worldwide.[26] They also own festivals like South by Southwest.[27]

Eldridge Industries founded a joint venture with Penske named Penske Media Eldridge in 2023. It owns companies like South by Southwest, Life Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival and Dick Clark Productions.[28]

Boehly is the biggest investor in Larry Jackson's music company Gamma.[29]

Hollywood Foreign Press Association

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In 2021, he became the interim CEO of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the organization that awards the Golden Globe Awards.[30] In 2022, Eldridge Industries bought the HFPA, and announced plans to split it into a private company and a nonprofit organization.[31] Dick Clark Productions bought the Golden Globe Awards and Boehly helped to found the charitable Golden Globe Foundation.[32] With Boehly as CEO, the HFPA was changed to add more voting members, including members from diverse backgrounds.[33][34]

The Golden Globes Awards was broadcast on television in 2023, coming back from a hiatus. The show has earned its highest ratings in years since being managed by Eldridge.[35]

Personal life

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Boehly met his wife Katie while he was studying at College of William & Mary. They have three sons.[4]

Charity

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Boehly and his wife Katie donated money to open the Boehly Center for Excellence in Finance at College of William & Mary in 2014.[36] They have also supported sports programs at the university,[37] and helped to build a new athletic complex and sports performance center at the college.[38]

He has supported organizations like Finding a Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures (FACES), the Brunswick School, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Focused Ultrasound Foundation,[39] and the Milken Centre for Advancing the American Dream.[4]

References

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  1. ↑ "Todd Boehly, Eldridge Industries: Profile and Biography". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
  2. ↑ "Consortium led by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital completes acquisition of Chelsea Football Club". www.chelseafc.com. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
  3. 1 2 "Todd Boehly". Forbes. Retrieved 2026-03-13.
  4. 1 2 3 "Be someone who gets stuff done: Tips for success from billionaire Todd Boehly, co-owner of Chelsea, Dodgers and Lakers". The Straits Times. 2025-05-25. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
  5. 1 2 3 Simons, John (April 12, 2019). "Former Guggenheim President Todd Boehly Is Growing His Investment Empire, From the Dodgers to Collateralized Loans". Barron's. Archived from the original on 2025-06-22.
  6. ↑ Johnson, Jamie (2022-06-24). "The real Todd Boehly: High-school wrestler turned ruthless winner who puts his money where his mouth is". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
  7. 1 2 Ahuja, Maneet; Tucker, Hank (May 2, 2024). "How Todd Boehly uses Warren Buffet's playbook to build his sports and entertainment empire". Forbes India. Archived from the original on 2025-08-04. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  8. 1 2 "From CLOs to 'Ozark,' Ex-Guggenheim President Builds an Empire". Bloomberg.com. September 9, 2019. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
  9. ↑ "Eldridge Industries LLC". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  10. ↑ Wiggers, Kyle (2023-10-05). "Metropolis raises $1.7B to acquire SP Plus". TechCrunch.
  11. ↑ Gardner Cuesta, Laura; Bercetche, Joumanna (December 5, 2024). "Todd Boehly Sets Up $74 Billion Asset and Insurance Manager". Bloomberg.
  12. ↑ "Bloomberg 50: The People and Ideas That Defined Global Business in 2022". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  13. ↑ "L.A. Influential". LA Times.
  14. ↑ "Kennedy-Wilson board member steps down". Spglobal.com. Archived from the original on 2024-12-11. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  15. ↑ Kristy Westgard (June 21, 2018). "'Retail Apocalypse' Didn't Scare This Landlord Off an IPO". Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on 2025-09-28. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  16. ↑ Ellingson, Annlee (July 12, 2021). "Dodgers co-owners take minority stake in Lakers". Bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
  17. ↑ Williams, Randall (July 9, 2021). "Dodgers Owners Walter and Boehly Close on 27% Stake in the Lakers". Sportico.com. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
  18. ↑ "Dodgers' World Series clincher averages 18.6 million viewers on FOX, a five-year high". FOX Sports. 2024-10-31. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
  19. ↑ Rohlin, Melissa (February 4, 2014). "Magic Johnson and other Dodgers owners purchase the Sparks". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2026-04-08.
  20. ↑ "E-Sports Franchise Cloud9 Adds New Investors Including Dodgers' Boehly, Joe Montana". Sports Business Journal. March 22, 2017. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  21. ↑ "Chelsea: Premier League approves takeover deal from Todd Boehly consortium". BBC Sport. 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
  22. ↑ Law, Matt (2023-01-09). "Todd Boehly stands down as Chelsea's interim sporting director". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
  23. ↑ "How Chelsea won Club World Cup: 'We've never seen a team do this to PSG'". BBC Sport. 2025-07-14. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
  24. ↑ "Chelsea owners buy majority stake in Strasbourg". BBC Sport. 2023-06-22. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
  25. ↑ Faughder, Ryan (February 1, 2018). "'House of Cards' producer MRC merges with Dick Clark Productions and Hollywood Reporter publisher". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  26. ↑ Yoo, Noah (September 23, 2020). "Rolling Stone, Billboard, Vibe, More to Operate Under New Joint Venture PMRC". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  27. ↑ "Billboard Parent Company MRC Teams With Penske Media for Publishing and Content Ventures". Billboard.com. 2020-09-23. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  28. ↑ Littleton, Cynthia (2023-01-25). "Penske Media Eldridge Acquires Dick Clark Productions in Major Expansion". Variety. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  29. ↑ "Boehly-Backed Home of Usher". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  30. ↑ Lang, Brent (October 1, 2021). "Todd Boehly Named Interim CEO of Hollywood Foreign Press Association (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  31. ↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony (2022-07-28). "HFPA Will Be Both A Private Company & Non-Profit". Deadline. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  32. ↑ "The HFPA is no more: California OKs plan to make Golden Globes a for-profit enterprise". Los Angeles Times. 2023-06-12. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  33. ↑ Wilkinson, Alissa (2023-01-09). "The Golden Globes, Hollywood's most chaotic awards, have returned". Vox. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  34. ↑ Rahman, Abid (2023-04-10). "Golden Globes: HFPA Adds 215 New International Voters (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  35. ↑ Coyle, Jake (2024-01-08). "Golden Globes ratings rebound to 9.4 million viewers, up from 2023 telecast". AP News. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  36. ↑ "W&M receives gift to fund new finance center in Business School". College of William & Mary. November 13, 2014. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  37. ↑ "William & Mary launches $55-million campaign for Tribe Athletics". Wtkr.com. March 25, 2021. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
  38. ↑ "W&M announces Kaplan Arena revitalization and new Sports Performance Center". advancement.wm.edu. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  39. ↑ "Katie and Todd Boehly". FUS Foundation. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 2026-04-15.
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