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 the former co-controlling owner and chairman of Premier League football club Chelsea, and former 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, whose grandparents emigrated from Germany, was born in Fairfax County, Virginia. His father was an engineer and his mother was a first grade teacher. He has a younger sister. Boehly attended Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, graduating in 1991.

Boehly graduated in 1996 from the College of William & Mary with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in finance. 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.

Taking Sorkin's advice on board, he moved to London on a special British Universities North America Club (BUNAC) visa and studied at the London School of Economics residing at Passfield Hall. Whilst at the London School of Economics, Boehly began working at Citibank and then at CS First Boston.

After graduating, Boehly became an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston, structuring collateralized loan obligations. In 1999, he joined J.H. Whitney & Company where he helped restructure $600 million of Guggenheim Partners' collateralized loan obligations, and first began working with Guggenheim co-founder Mark Walter. In 2001, Boehly joined Guggenheim Partners and bought out J.H. Whitney's $1.5 billion credit business, folding it into Guggenheim. At Guggenheim, Boehly launched the firm's credit investing business, which grew to $60 billion, and assumed responsibility of its asset management business. He became president of Guggenheim in 2011.

In early 2013, Boehly led a deal between Time Warner Cable and the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball to create SportsNet LA, a regional network to broadcast all Dodgers’ games and Dodgers-related programming. Broadcasting from the team-owned network began with the 2014 baseball season.

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. In 2010, he visited Topeka, Kansas to lead Security Benefit's acquisition by Guggenheim and demutualization. While negotiating the acquisition of Security Benefit, Boehly stayed at The Eldridge Hotel, a historic hotel founded by the abolitionist Shalor Eldridge. He later spun Security Benefit out as a part of a new company which he named Eldridge Industries, and Security Benefit became a part of the asset manager Eldridge when it was founded in 2025. Eldridge Industries also owns Zinnia (formerly SE2), a technology platform for insurance companies. He invested in Clearcover Insurance, and DPL Financial Advisors, an RIA insurance network. 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.

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

Boehly was listed on Los Angeles Business Journal's 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.

Boehly met his wife Katie while he was studying at the College of William & Mary. They have three sons. Boehly and his wife helped found the Boehly Center for Excellence in Finance in 2014 at William & Mary's Raymond A. Mason School of Business via a multi-year gift. 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.

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