Todd Boehly

Todd L. Boehly (; born September 20, 1973) is an American businessman. He is the co-founder, chairman, chief executive officer (CEO) and controlling member of Eldridge Industries, a holding company headquartered in Miami, Florida. He is also the co-controlling owner and chairman of football club Chelsea, and co-owner of Ligue 1 football club Strasbourg under BlueCo. As of March 2026, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$9.3 billion. Boehly attended Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, graduating in 1991. After feeling overwhelmed with his college experience and not knowing exactly what he wanted to do, he visited his former geometry professor from Landon, Steve Sorkin, for advice. Boehly had an interest in finance and Sorkin advised him to move to London due to the potential opportunities to work in one of the largest global financial centers. and assumed responsibility of its asset management business. He became president of Guggenheim in 2011. Broadcasting from the team-owned network began with the 2014 baseball season.

Eldridge Industries

In 2015, Boehly bought some of the assets he had collected at Guggenheim, including The Hollywood Reporter, Dick Clark Productions, and Security Benefit to found Eldridge Industries, a private holding company which invests in various industries. In addition to its Miami headquarters, Eldridge Industries also has offices in Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Beverly Hills, Chicago, Dallas, Greenwich, Connecticut, New York City, and London. It employed approximately 5,000 employees in the United States as of 2025. In 2023, Boehly appeared on CNBC to discuss Eldridge Industries' focus on credit management and scaling businesses in response to market conditions in the United States. In 2024, he made another appearance on CNBC to discuss growing activity in mergers and acquisitions as part of a shift towards market consolidation. In a 2025 Bloomberg interview, Boehly commented on opportunities in developing credit markets and industries in Asia, particularly Japan, Hong Kong, and China.

Boehly's asset management company Eldridge owns Security Benefit Life Insurance. He invested in Clearcover Insurance, DPL reached over $1 billion in annuity sales in 2022, which doubled in 2023. Eldridge Industries also owns a 10% interest in Blue Owl GP Stakes Fund III.

He helped to found Cain, a real estate firm co-owned by Eldridge Industries, Kennedy Wilson, and European real investment firm Blackbrook Capital. Blackbrook merged with Cain in 2024.

In 2024, the real estate investment firm Eldridge Acre Partners was formed in partnership with AECOM.

Through Eldridge Industries, Boehly has invested in technology, entertainment, sports, and consumer goods. It has over 4,000 locations and processed over $5 billion in payments from 50 million customers as of 2025. The company's artificial intelligence platform is also used in retail, food service, hospitality, and aviation. He has also invested in digital delivery service Gopuff, which had raised $5 billion in total funding as of 2025 and was valued at $40 billion.

Eldridge Boehly is the chairman of Eldridge, an asset manager and insurance holding company founded in 2025 with over $70 billion in assets under management. Several existing Eldridge Industries asset management and investment businesses were reconsolidated under Eldridge. Eldridge Wealth Solutions' holdings comprise Everly Life and Security Benefit Life Insurance, an insurer with $60 billion in assets. Security Benefit had a net income of $1.2 billion as of 2023, and issued an offering of $650 million in senior debt in 2024.

Sports Boehly owns 20% of the Los Angeles Dodgers and is also a part owner of the Los Angeles Sparks. He is an owner of esports organization Cloud9. Boehly and Walter acquired a 27% stake in the Los Angeles Lakers from Philip Anschutz in 2021. At the time, the Lakers were third-highest valued team in the NBA, with an estimated value of $5.14 billion.

On 22 June 2023, Boehly acquired a majority stake in French Ligue 1 club Strasbourg for a reported fee of £65M through BlueCo.

Boehly has also invested in The St. James athletic facility in Springfield, Virginia, which is planned to be part of a network of sports training facilities.

As of 2026, Eldridge Industries and Arctos Partners manage a fund that invests in North American sports leagues and entertainment companies.

Boehly has commented on the professionalization of college sports and increasing demand for more sophisticated sports training programs.

Chelsea F.C. In 2019, Boehly made an attempt to buy the English football club Chelsea for $3 billion, but the owner at the time, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, rejected the takeover bid. In March 2022, alongside Mark Walter, Hansjörg Wyss and Clearlake Capital, he launched a bid to buy the club from Abramovich, who had announced an intention to sell it amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Their consortium was later known as BlueCo. On May 6, 2022, Chelsea F.C. confirmed that the bid had been accepted by its owners and would be finalized by the end of the month. The bid was approved by both the UK and, because of Abramovich's Portuguese citizenship, the Portuguese government, the Premier League, and the European Union. On May 30, the takeover of the club was completed. On January 9, 2023, Boehly stepped down as the interim sporting director of Chelsea.

The Guardian noted that Boehly is following his usual approach of taking an active role in new business operations during their first year, and then stepping back and deferring to "the experts" once they are in place. In May 2023, Boehly called the purchase of the team "a long-term project", commenting that "the fans are demanding, and they want to win. And we get that, we [also] want to win". In 2023, Chelsea partnered with Tempus Ex Machina to integrate additional features into the Chelsea mobile app, such as the ability to switch camera positions while watching livestreams of games, adjust the graphical interface and view highlights. In 2025, Chelsea won the FIFA Club World Cup.

Media and entertainment In 2012, Eldridge Industries provided seed funding for film company A24. The studio has been described as "an indie powerhouse" by Los Angeles Times, and has been nominated for 87 Academy Awards, of which it won 21. In 2023, it became the first studio in history to win the top six Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress) in a single year.

In 2020, it was announced that Boehly formed a joint venture with Penske Media Corporation to manage publications, including Billboard, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Music Business Worldwide. The joint venture managed content such as television series, films and live events, and became the majority owner of South by Southwest in 2021. In 2023, Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge Industries renamed the joint venture Penske Media Eldridge, which also owns properties such as South by Southwest, Life Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival, and Dick Clark Productions.

Dick Clark Productions partnered with Spotify to relaunch the Billboard Music Awards as a digital event in 2023. That year, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which is produced by Dick Clark Productions, was renewed with ABC through 2029.

Boehly led investments in fan engagement platform Laylo, Canadian influencer marketing and technology company, Viral Nation, and Fixated, a content creation management company.

Boehly is the largest investor in Larry Jackson's music company Gamma, followed by A24 and Apple. Gamma acquired music distribution platform Vydia, and expanded into Africa and the Middle East, opening headquarters in Lagos and Dubai.

Golden Globes In 2021, Boehly was named the interim CEO of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. In 2022, Eldridge Industries acquired the HFPA, and announced plans to create a for-profit entity to manage the Golden Globe Awards' intellectual property, as well as a nonprofit entity to manage the HFPA's philanthropic efforts.

Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions acquired the assets, rights and properties of the Golden Globes in 2023, as part of the HFPA's dissolution. Under this deal, the non-profit Golden Globe Foundation was also formed to handle the philanthropic efforts of the former HFPA.

The 81st Golden Globe Awards aired on CBS on January 7, 2024, returning to its traditional time slot on the first Sunday of January. The show introduced two new awards categories, "Stand-up Comedy" and "Cinematic and Box Office Achievement", and six nominees per category, increasing from the previous five nominees. The broadcast was watched by over 9.4 million viewers, earning the show's highest ratings in years. The 83rd Golden Globes added a new awards category: "Best Podcast".

Boards Boehly sits on the boards of Cain, Kennedy Wilson, PayActiv, Vivid Seats and CAIS, which launched the SaaS platform CAIS Solutions.

Reception Boehly was listed on Los Angeles Business Journals list of the 500 most influential people from 2017 to 2023. In 2022, he was included on the Forbes 400 list, and the Bloomberg 50, a list of the most influential people in global business. Boehly was featured on the cover of Forbes in 2024, as part of a feature on his investment, sports and entertainment empire. He was also included in Los Angeles Times 2024 "LA Influential" list.

He is a frequent keynote speaker at symposiums, summits and economic forums.

Personal life Boehly met his wife Katie while he was studying at College of William & Mary. They have three sons. They also sponsor the yearly women's Stock Pitch and Leadership Summit at William & Mary. In 2020, Boehly and Katie committed funding to the construction of a new athletic complex and sports performance center at the college. They were honorary co-chairs of a $55 million campaign to fund William & Mary Athletics in 2021.

In January 2021, Boehly partnered with William & Mary to produce a series of courses for students at the Boehly Center for Excellence in Finance.

He is also actively involved with various organizations, including Finding a Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures (FACES), the Brunswick School, the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Focused Ultrasound Foundation. He also supports the Milken Centre for Advancing the American Dream.