Anschutz graduated from Wichita High School East in 1957, and in 1961 earned a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Kansas, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.[8]. She also manages several funds, including an innovation (303) 304-9967 |[email protected]. The Anschutz Investment Company also purchased LightEdge Solutions in February 2008. In 1982 Anschutz sold an interest in it to Mobil Oil for $500 million. Through a restructuring, it was possible that Anschutz could wind up as the largest shareholder of United Artists, and would have done so on the cheap. He is the majority owner of the NHL's Los Angeles Kings, with a stake in the MLS's Los Angeles Galaxy, plus he owns the Crypto.com Arena, where the Kings play. Overall, on-time deliveries were up by more than 50 percent in his first year. Michael joined CU Innovations in 2022. Executive Vice President and Chief Mission Integration Officer, Ascension. of strategic industry partnerships, and the development of long-term growth strategies for CUI. He also began securing the rights to lay cable along the tracks of other railroads, eventually gaining agreements to lay cable along 40,000 miles of railway. Moyers had retired after a very successful four-year stint at Illinois Central, where he cut its operating ratio (operating expenses as a percentage of revenues) from 98 percent to 71 percent. [61] Anschutz has run 15 marathons. Through ASM Global (formerly AEG), he owns stakes in venues including Crypto.com Arena and O2 Arena. Anschutz owns two five-star resorts, the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs and Sea Island in Georgia. Co-Director of SPARK, Graphic Designer & Social Media Specialist, (303) 724 - 0222 |[email protected]. He was also Assistant Director of Venture Capital Analytics with the Rockies Venture Club where he helped in create due diligence reports for angel investors in the RVC network. The TransWest development team includes: Bill Miller, President and CEO; Roxane Perruso, Executive Vice President and COO; Kelly Cummins, Vice President, Land and Environmental Affairs The company behind TransWest, Anschutz Corporation, amassed a fortune in the 20th century in the oil-rich shale deposits of Wyoming. Akebono Brake Corporation (Elizabethtown) <ABC> (North American Co-head Office, sales and marketing) 300 Ring Road, Elizabethtown, KY 42701, U.S.A. Tel: +1 270-234-5500 Kimberly Muller is the Executive Director of CU Innovations where she leads innovation for the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. In the initial years after the purchase, Rio Grande Industries struggled to overcome its huge debt load, which had led to $100 million-plus interest payments each year, as well as the decline in SP's traditional accounts in auto parts, lumber, and food; increased competition from Union Pacific and Santa Fe; and more rigorous safety inspections in California, where SP trains were involved in two chemical spills in July 1991. 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He is also the namesake of CU Anschutz, the medical campus of the University of Colorado. Through his ownership of Walden Media, he has invested in films such as The Chronicles of Narnia, Ray, and Joshua. Select a state to view the market leadership. Share Your Design Ideas, New JerseysMurphy Defends $10 Billion Rainy Day Fund as States Economy Slows, What Led to Europes Deadliest Train Crash in a Decade, This Week in Crypto: Ukraine War, Marathon Digital, FTX. Anschutz Entertainment Group. Texas. Sports Business Journal, Soccers visionary: Phil Anschutz, June 5, 2006. The Anschutz Corporation is an American private holding company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, United States. Moyers also sought to bolster Southern Pacific's equipment through the purchase of new locomotives, the rebuilding of existing locomotives, and better maintenance of both trains and track. On 320,000 acres in Wyoming, Anschutz aims to build one of the world's biggest wind farms. [39] He financed The Foundation for a Better Life. When the huge oil field caught fire soon after its discovery, Anschutz averted disaster by persuading the famed oil-fire fighter Red Adair to take on the blaze despite Anschutz's shaky finances, and by securing $100,000&mdash-ough to tide him over until he could get financing from his bankers--from Universal Studios. to joining the CU Innovations team, Doreen was a licensing coordinator at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where she focused on the active marketing of technologies and management of NRELs diverse software portfolio. Additionally, Raja is a graduate of Steve Blanks Lean Launchpad Program for Life Sciences and has advised multiple startup companies, including coaching teams through business plan competitions. All Rights Reserved. Anschutz has invested in, for example, the Clarity Media Group, a Denver-based publishing group that includes[28] newspapers such as The Oklahoman, the largest newspaper in Oklahoma; The San Francisco Examiner (purchased in 2004, sold in November 2011); The Washington Examiner, a right-wing weekly tabloid that was consolidated from group of D.C.-area suburban dailies; The Baltimore Examiner, which launched in April 2006 and was shut down in early 2009; the now-closed Examiner.com, a hyper-local web portal where contributors wrote on local topics from news to blog-like stories; the conservative Weekly Standard (purchased in 2009);[29] and The Gazette, Colorado's second-largest newspaper, with a daily circulation of 74,172 (purchased on November 30, 2012)[30] (Anschutz has trademarked the name "Examiner" in more than 60 cities.). [31], It was announced on September 15, 2011, that Anschutz would acquire all assets of the Oklahoma Publishing Company (OPUBCO) from the Gaylord and Dickinson families. His grandfather, Carl Anschutz,[6] was an ethnic German who emigrated from Russia and started the Farmers State Bank in Russell. Members of the media with inquiries about the PCW wind energy project Michigan. Not surprisingly, then, the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific entered into what turned out to be lengthy discussions about a merger. It is the world's largest owner of sports teams, sports events, and sports venues. Anschutz contemplated and then abandoned takeovers of two publicly traded companies in the 1980s, ITT and Pennwalt; in the process of buying and selling shares in the companies, he pocketed more than $100 million. Upon closing, Anschutz would operate OPUBCO separately from his other publishing and media assets as an independent company. In July 1996--despite opposition from the U.S. departments of Justice, Transportation, and Agriculture; from such rival railroads as Kansas City Southern and Consolidated Rail; and from the governor of Texas, George W. Bush--the STB approved the merger in July 1996, with the only major stipulation being that UP grant trackage rights for about 4,000 miles of track to Burlington Northern Sante Fe. The Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) is a sporting and music entertainment presenter and a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation. No one could say if any of these ventures would turn into another billion-dollar payoff, but after the naysayers were proved very wrong when they had questioned Anschutz's forays into railroads and telecommunications, few people were willing to bet against him. He is the majority owner of the NHL's Los Angeles Kings,. Prior to joining CU Anschutz, she managed funding and entrepreneurship programs in Science Foundation Ireland, the Irish government science funding agency. The one-hour program features market and geopolitical discussions with a rotating panel of influential voices including thought leaders, CEOs, policy makers and economists. Prior to CU, Raja worked as a Commercialization Manager at the University of Kentucky Privacy Policy. By the early 21st century, Anschutz had an estimated net worth of more than $16 billion. Reflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day. The Anschutz Corporation Address: 555 17th Street, Suite 2400 Denver, Colorado 80202 U.S.A. Telephone: (303) 298-1000 Fax: (303) 298-8881 Statistics: Private Company Incorporated: 1958 NAIC: 551112 Offices of Other Holding Companies Key Dates: 1958: The Anschutz Corporation is founded by Fred Anschutz, an oil wildcatter. [54], Anschutz prefers to stay out of the limelight. Key Principal: Phillip Anschutz See more contacts Industry: Investment holding companies, except banks , Newspapers , Oil and gas exploration services , Sports clubs, managers, and promoters Printer Friendly View Address: 555 17TH St Ste 2400 Denver, CO, 80202-3987 United States See other locations Phone: Website: www.anschutz-exploration.com As William P. Barrett noted in Forbes, 'Beyond the original cash stake in the Rio Grande, Anschutz put not a penny more into the deal,' thereby making him the first individual to own a major railroad in decades. Frank Smith is President and Chief Executive Officer of Anschutz Film Group (AFG) and Walden Media. SB Nation, The Two Sides of Phillip Anschutz: An American Soccer Savior With a Disturbing Social Agenda, November 10, 2011. Henry Dubroff of the Denver Post estimated that Anschutz had pocketed pretax profits of as much as $500 million from the stock offerings. He had now made billion-dollar fortunes in three separate industries: oil, railroads, and telecommunications. Javascript is disabled in your web browser. - Responsible for Governance, Risk & Compliance oversight across the company's portfolio. brand messaging. Tulsa. Two years later, Anschutz acquired Qwest Communications Inc., a Dallas-based digital microwave company, and merged SP Telecom into it, setting up headquarters in Denver. In another effort to reduce the debt load, 30 million shares were offered in August 1993. the Head of Patent Development for Intellectual Ventures Invention Development and resided in Asia. [40] In 2010, he financed the pro-charter school film Waiting for Superman. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. The employee data is based on information from people who have self-reported their past or current employments at The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation. Operations Officer at Sintact Medical Systems. Doreen has also previously worked as a research assistant at the University of Colorado in the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology as well as a teacher of high school biology. The Anschutz Corporation also owns The Broadmoor-Sea Island Company which operates The Broadmoor hotel, The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway and the Sea Island resort. In 1996 he engineered the sale of Southern Pacific to rival Union Pacific Corporation , pocketing $1.4 billion in profits from an initial $90 million investment. Get Contact Info for All Departments The Anschutz Corporation Org Chart Dan Eppich At that point, Anschutz had managed to turn his initial $55 million investment in SP Telecom into $4.9 billion. Anschutz is the son of Fred and Marian Pfister Anschutz. The Rio Grande's small size and its position as a bridge carrier (providing connections between other rail lines) led Anschutz to pursue the acquisition of the railroad giant Southern Pacific (SP) in an attempt to save the much smaller Rio Grande. The Anschutz Company 555 17th Street, Suite 2400 Denver, Colorado 80202-3941 U.S.A. Telephone: (303) 298-1000 Fax: (303) 298-8881 Private Company Incorporated: 1992 Employees: 100 NAIC: 551112 Offices of Other Holding Companies Bloomberg Wall Street Week, hosted by David Westin, is a reinvention of the iconic Wall Street Week, which aired on PBS for over 30 years and was hosted by late financial journalist Louis Rukeyser. Director of Investments Executive Director Contact | Bio Licensing Mary Tapolsky, PHD Senior Licensing Manager Contact | Bio Claire has conducted research on the immune response in neurological disorders and developed a prodromal diagnostic test for Alzheimers disease. A marathon runner, Anschutz has built his $16-billion-plus fortune through tenacity, savvy dealmaking, strategic timing, and a knack for spotting trends. In 1988, the Rio Grande railroad purchased the Southern Pacific Railroad under his direction. The data presented on this page does not represent the view of The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation and its employees or that of Zippia. Campus, he has worked both with the PreAward Shared Services team under the Dean's Office within the School of Medicine and as the Research Budget and Grants Manager for the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the Department Kimberly joined the University of Colorado from Yale University where she was formerly the Deputy Director of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI), and managed New Ventures in the Office of Cooperative Research. Prior to moving The proposed merger elicited immediate opposition from government officials and Santa Fe's competition, and with the added impetus of pressure from Anschutz, whom Forbes called 'politically influential,' the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1987 blocked the Santa Fe-SP merger as anticompetitive. In this role, she administers the vision, strategy, and goals of the SPARK|REACH Program. The Anschutz Corporation also owns Ken Ehrlich Productions and the Clarity Media Group, the parent company of The Gazette, a newspaper in Colorado Springs and Washington Examiner, a conservative news website and weekly magazine.[5]. On September 18, 2012, Anschutz announced he was putting AEG up for sale, but he decided not to accept[20] any of the bids, and on March 14, 2013, took AEG off the market. . [2][3][4][5] His father was an oil tycoon and land investor who invested in ranches in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, and eventually went into the oil-drilling business. Ashlee Vance explores innovations in new tech, software, engineering, and science in places outside of Silicon Valley. Xanterra purchased the resort from Busch Properties, Inc. (BPI). Through AEG Live, it owns the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. In those roles, Raja led the development and launch of multiple commercial (UK) Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) for about 3 years, where his primary responsibilities included assessment, marketing and licensing of intellectual property in the life sciences area focusing on innovations developed Consistently ranked as the richest person in Denver, Anschutz became better known nationally in the late 1980s and early 1990s for acquiring railroad lines, including the small Rio Grande Railroad and a railroad giant, Southern Pacific Rail Corporation. In 1970, Anschutz bought the 250,000-acre (1,000km) Baughman Farms, one of the country's largest farming corporations, in Liberal, Kansas, for $10 million. grant fund, and a nearly $50 million venture fund. Counsel staff, Ms. Ross was a litigator with Messner Reeves in Denver. Soon after Ronald Reagan became president in 1980, he deregulated the U.S. railroad industry. SP Telecom continued digging trenches along the tracks and laying fiber-optic cable, then leasing the lines to such telecommunications firms as AT & T and MCI. Department of the Treasury. It is also the owner of entertainment venues and under AEG Live the world's second-largest presenter of live music and entertainment events after Live Nation. 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Emily joined the CU Innovations team in May of 2021 as a Project Manager. Second, Moyers focused on service to SP's customers, putting pressure on his subordinates to improve the operations. To fund the cost of constructing the massive network--initially estimated at $1.4 billion--Qwest in 1996 reached an agreement with Frontier Corporation, whereby Frontier, at the time the number five U.S. long distance company, would invest $500 million in Qwest in exchange for the right to 25 percent of the capacity of the Qwest network for the following 50 years. In March 2012, it was reported that Anschutz was interested in buying the Rangers. Ascension provides care in 19 states and the District of Columbia. In April 2002, the Anschutz Exploration Corporation gave up its plans to drill for oil in the area. It was not until 1968 that he made his first major strike--and his first million--while contract drilling for Chevron near Gillette, Wyoming. For some time, while MLS was struggling, Anschutz owned six MLS franchises concurrently and experienced significant financial losses. Forbes Vetted deals writer Jordan Thomas says Philips' SmartSleep Sunrise Alarm Clock has transformed her morning routine. 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