Speakers
Philip Anschutz
Chairman, Anschutz Foundation
Philip Anschutz is owner of The Anschutz Corporation, founded in 1965 and based in Denver, Colorado. The company’s major business interests are in the fields of communications, transportation, natural and renewable resources, real estate, lodging, and entertainment. Mr. Anschutz is a governor of the National Hockey League and Major League Soccer and an executive member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. He is chairman of the board of The Anschutz Foundation, a trustee of the Kansas University Endowment Association, an emeritus trustee of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a lifetime honorary trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and an alumnus member of the Smithsonian National Board. He has served in the past on boards and committees of various charitable, civic, industry, and financial organizations. His personal hobbies include jogging, squash, hunting, and collecting paintings of the American West. A native of Kansas, Mr. Anschutz graduated from the University of Kansas in 1961 with a degree in business.
