Names In The News
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Baker Has Trained To
Become His Own Boss |
In Manchester, David Teather profiles secondary-ticketing company Viagogo Founder & CEO ERIC BAKER, a Stanford Univ. MBA graduate who has "trained with the sole purpose of becoming his ... own boss and making a mint." Baker worked for consultancy McKinsey and private equity firm Bain Capital before "coming up with the idea at the tail end of the internet boom in late 2000 for StubHub." EBay in '07 acquired StubHub for $300M, $30M of which went to Baker. Baker then in '06 moved to London and opened an office for Viagogo, and soon thereafter "signed a series of deals" with teams such as Manchester United and Chelsea (Manchester GUARDIAN, 6/26).
CHEEK TO CHEEK: In DC, Liz Clarke profiles Olympic speed skater and Team Darfur co-Founder Joey Cheek, who is "hardly the first athlete to be celebrated for pushing the boundaries of human performance yet rebuked for pushing matters of conscience." Cheek "doesn't regret his effort to advocate higher ideals against the Olympic backdrop," but "isn't certain how best to gauge results" of Team Darfur. Cheek: "Is success that we got people to hear more about it? Maybe. Is success that there were fewer people killed because of the efforts we made? Maybe, maybe not. Sometimes you feel like the only thing that matters is if you have a billion dollars or a cruise missile" (WASHINGTON POST, 6/26).
LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND: Univ. of New Orleans (UNO) SID ROB BROUSSARD Thursday confirmed the school's athletic department will receive "millions" of dollars from the estate of LOGAN WICKLIFFE CARY JR., who died last month. Cary donated much of his $150M estate to college athletic programs, including Tulane and the Univ. of Oklahoma. The donations "seemed to abate the cost-cutting worries for both UNO and Tulane" (New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE, 6/26).
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Bodecker Ranks No. 6 In List Of
"100 Most Creative People In Business" |
NAMES: Nike VP/Global Design SANDY BODECKER ranks No. 6 in FAST COMPANY magazine's annual list of the "100 Most Creative People In Business." Red Bull CEO DIETRICH MATESCHITZ ranked No. 25, while Puma Creative Dir HUSSEIN CHALAYAN ranked No. 62 (FAST COMPANY, 6/ '09 issue)....The Packers and coach MIKE MCCARTHY have partnered to make a $100,000 donation to his alma mater, Baker Univ., marking the second straight year McCarthy and the team have made a donation to the school (K.C. STAR, 6/26)....Red Sox LF JASON BAY Wednesday confirmed that he "has passed a citizenship test and will officially become a citizen of the United States in a ceremony on July 2" (WEEI.com, 6/24)....Cavaliers C SHAQUILLE O'NEAL sold his house on Miami Beach's Star Island for $16M, less than the $18.8M he paid for the property in August '04. O'Neal has been "trying to unload the 2.45-acre estate for four years," with the asking price ranging from a high of $35M to a recent low of $22.5M (MIAMI HERALD, 6/26)....Dallas attorney RALPH JANVEY, the "court-appointed receiver" in the fraud case against Stanford Financial Group Chair ALLEN STANFORD, has filed suit against seven current or former MLB players, including P GREG MADDUX, Yankees LF JOHNNY DAMON and Red Sox RF J.D. DREW (Baton Rouge ADVOCATE, 6/25).
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