Background and career
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 2026, it was reported that Boehly led a group proposing to purchase the sanctioned Russian oil company Lukoil. He previously contributed $2 million to PACs and political causes affiliated with Donald Trump.
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. 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. Boehly has also invested in AI parking management company Metropolis Technologies, the largest parking company in North America. 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.
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. In 2025, it opened an office in Singapore. Eldridge is wholly owned by Eldridge Industries and includes the asset management division Eldridge Capital Management, and the insurance and retirement division Eldridge Wealth Solutions. 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.
Boehly owns 20% of the Los Angeles Dodgers and is also a part owner of the Los Angeles Sparks. Under his ownership, the Dodgers won the 2020 and 2024 World Series, and their games have seen a rise in viewership. 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. In an interview with CNBC, Boehly analyzed the use of experiential technologies including artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and virtual reality on audience participation in sports, and its impact on avenues of sports monetization such as sports betting.
