What company was co-founded by the owner of the Seattle Seahawks?
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Seattle Seahawks The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football franchise based in Seattle, Washington. The Seahawks compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The Seahawks joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team. The Seahawks are owned by Paul Allen and are currently coached by Pete Carroll. Since 2002, the Seahawks have played their home games at CenturyLink Field (formerly Qwest Field), located south of downtown Seattle. The Seahawks previously played home games in the Kingdome (1976–1999) and Husky Stadium (1994, 2000–2001).
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Paul Allen Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding Microsoft alongside Bill Gates. As of June 2017, he is estimated to be the 46th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $20.7 billion.
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2002 Seattle Seahawks season The 2002 Seattle Seahawks season was the team's 27th season with the National Football League.
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Vancouver Dragons The Vancouver Dragons were a professional basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), and one of seven minor league sports franchises owned by Seattle attorney and businessman Michael Tuckman, CEO of West Coast Sports, LLC.
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Renton, Washington Renton is a city in King County, Washington, United States. Situated 11 mi southeast of downtown Seattle, Washington, Renton straddles the southeast shore of Lake Washington, at the mouth of the Cedar River. While long an important salmon fishing area for Native Americans, Renton was first settled by people of European descent in the 1860s, and its early economy was based on coal mining, clay production, and timber export. Today, Renton is best known as the final assembly point for the Boeing 737 family of commercial airplanes, but it is also home to a growing number of well known manufacturing, technology, and healthcare organizations, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes Division, Paccar, Kaiser Permanente, IKEA, Providence Health & Services, UW Medicine Valley Medical Center, and Wizards of the Coast. As of 2016, the population in Renton is 101,300, up from 90,927 at the 2010 census. Renton currently is the 8th largest city in Washington State, and is the 4th largest in King County. The National Football League's Seattle Seahawks have a training facility in Renton. It is the second-largest facility in the NFL at 200000 sqft .
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Seattle Sounders (1974–83) The Seattle Sounders were a U.S. professional soccer team based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1974, the team belonged to the North American Soccer League where it played both indoor and outdoor soccer. The team folded after the 1983 NASL outdoor season.
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Gerald Phipps Gerald Phipps (March 4, 1915 – August 6, 1993) was a businessman, President of Gerald H. Phipps, Inc., a construction company, and owner of the Denver Broncos American football club from 1961 to 1981.
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Tony Ressler Antony P. Ressler (born July 16, 1959) is an American businessman. He co-founded the private equity firm Apollo Global Management in 1990; and co-founded the private equity firm Ares Management in 1997. Ressler and Grant Hill are both owners of the Atlanta Hawks. They purchased the team on June 24, 2015 for estimated $730 million - $850 million.
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Bum Bright Harvey Roberts "Bum" Bright (October 6, 1920 – December 11, 2004) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the owner of the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys from 1984 to 1989.
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John J. Fisher John J. Fisher (born June 1, 1961) is an American businessman. He is the majority owner of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics and has stakes in Major League Soccer's San Jose Earthquakes and Scotland's Celtic F.C. He is the son of Gap Inc. founders Donald Fisher and Doris F. Fisher.
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2012 Seattle Seahawks season The Seattle Seahawks season was the franchise's 37th season in the National Football League and the third under head coach Pete Carroll. The Seahawks had a three quarterback competition with Tarvaris Jackson, Matt Flynn, and Russell Wilson. Jackson was traded to the Bills, and Wilson won the job.
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Clay Bennett (businessman) Clayton Ike Bennett (born 1959) is an American businessman and chairman of the Professional Basketball Club LLC, the ownership group of the Oklahoma City Thunder, an NBA franchise formerly known as the Seattle SuperSonics. Bennett is the chairman of Oklahoma City-based Dorchester Capital Corporation, as well as the chairman emeritus of the board of directors of the Oklahoma Heritage Association and chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma.
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Bill Bidwill William V. Bidwill Sr. (born July 31, 1931) is the principal owner and chairman of the board of the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He was co-owner from 1962 for ten seasons with his brother Charles Jr. and has been sole owner since 1972.
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Bray Cary Bray Cary, born June 15, 1948, is a US-based media and sports marketing entrepreneur and the President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of West Virginia Media Holdings, a multi-media company serving over 90% of West Virginia. In 1984, he founded Creative Sports, a sports & marketing production company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Creative Sports was acquired by ESPN in 1994. Cary is credited as the architect of the growth of NASCAR through a $2.4B deal with FOX and NBC in 1999 and a historic Internet contract between NASCAR and Turner/AOL in 2000. Since 2008, Cary has served as a member of the board of directors of EQT Corporation, an energy corporation traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Turner Entertainment Turner Entertainment Company, Inc. (commonly known as Turner Entertainment Co.) is a multimedia company founded by Ted Turner. Purchased by Time Warner, along with Turner Broadcasting System, the company was largely responsible for overseeing its library for worldwide distribution. In recent years, this role has largely been limited to being the copyright holder, as the library has since been incorporated into that of Turner Broadcasting's sibling company Warner Bros.
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Aero Controls Aero Controls, Inc. is an aerospace engineering company founded in October 1984 by John Titus, the CEO and President of the Company, headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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Seattle Storm The Seattle Storm are a professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team was founded before the 2000 season began. The team is owned by Force 10 Hoops LLC, which is composed of three Seattle businesswomen: Dawn Trudeau, Lisa Brummel, and Ginny Gilder.
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Herman Sarkowsky Herman Sarkowsky (June 9, 1925 – November 2, 2014) was a Seattle, Washington, United States businessman, philanthropist, thoroughbred breeder, and former sports executive. He was a co-founder of two Pacific Northwest sports franchises, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks.
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Bruce Levenson Bruce Levenson is an American businessman, former NBA team owner, and philanthropist. He was a co-owner of Atlanta Hawks, LLC (formerly Atlanta Spirit LLC), which owns and operates the Atlanta Hawks basketball team and Philips Arena. Levenson has also served as the Hawks' Governor on the NBA Board of Governors since 2004.
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City Football Group The City Football Group (CFG) is the holding company established to oversee the creation and administration of a network of linked clubs and other footballing operations. The company is run as a holding company under parent company the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) along with Chinese part-owners China Media Capital and CITIC Capital. The company's aim is to own a team on each continent, each with the identifier "City" in its name.
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Birmingham Sports Holdings Birmingham Sports Holdings () is an investment holding company owned by Chinese businessman Paul Suen through his investment company Trillion Trophy Asia.
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Makis Angelopoulos Mavroeidis "Makis" Angelopoulos (alternate spellings: Mavroeidis, Makis, Aggelopoulos) (Greek: Μαυροειδής "Μάκης" Αγγελόπουλος) is the co-owner of the basketball team AEK Athens.