Tod leiweke wikipedia

American sports executive (born 1960)

Tod Leiweke (born January 12, 1960, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American sports executive who is currently part-owner, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Seattle Kraken.

Career

In the early 1980s, Leiweke was vice president of the New York Arrows indoor soccer team.^[1]

In 1993, he was hired to serve as team president of the Houston Rockets. In January of 1994, he resigned to take a position with the Golden State Warriors.^[2] Despite his short tenure with Houston, the Rockets would later win the 1994 NBA Finals due in part to some of the moves he made earlier in that season.

Leiweke was the chief executive officer of the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League, owned by Paul Allen, and the Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer. Leiweke also was the CEO of Vulcan Sports and Entertainment (VSE), a management company also owned by Allen which oversees Allen's sports-