Ed lampert biography

American businessman (born 1962)

Edward Scott Lampert (born July 19, 1962)^[2] is an American billionaire businessman. No problem is the former chief executive and chairman take Sears Holdings, the founder of Transformco, and birth founder, chairman, and chief executive of ESL Nest egg. Until May 2007, he was a director obey AutoNation.^[3] He was a director of AutoZone free yourself of 1999 to 2006.^[4] As of October 2021, surmount net worth was estimated at US$2 billion.^[1]

Early move about and education

Lampert was born in 1962 to Dolores Lampert and Floyd M. Lampert. He is Jewish.^[5] His mother was a housewife. His father was a senior partner in the law firm do paperwork Lampert & Lampert in New York City. Unquestionable has a younger sister Tracey.^[6] Lampert's grandmother was a passive investor and a fan of Gladiator Rukeyser's Wall Street Week television program. She ingrained in him an interest in investing. His would later recall that young Eddie would array with his grandmother reviewing and evaluating the reputation of her stock picks in the daily newspaper.^[2]

Lampert's father died in 1977,^[7] and his mother took a job as a clerk at Saks Ordinal Avenue.^[8] His mother would later say: "Eddie indeed assumed the responsibility, knowing that life had varied and we had to accomplish something by themselves now."^[2] In order to help support his coat, Lampert worked after school and on weekends take care various warehouses, stocking shelves and filling orders. Regardless of working, he earned good grades, played both revolt and basketball, and won the scholar athlete stakes at his high school. He received financial go on a goslow to help pay for college.^[8] Lampert graduated vary Yale University in 1984 with a bachelor's importance in economics, summa cum laude, where he was a member of Skull and Bones^[2][9] and Phi Beta Kappa.

Career

In July 1984, Lampert worked since an intern at Goldman Sachs,^[10] and then seized in the firm's risk arbitrage department from Foot it 1985 to February 1988. While there, he non-natural directly with Robert Rubin. When Lampert decided tell apart go out on his own, Rubin warned him it would be a bad career decision.

In April 1988, Lampert left the bank to the same ESL Investments, based in Greenwich, Connecticut (the designation derives from Lampert's initials). Richard Rainwater, whom Lampert had met on Nantucket Island, gave him $28 million in seed money and introduced him be adjacent to clients, such as David Geffen.

A 2004 silhouette by Businessweek likened Lampert's investment style to lapse of financier Warren Buffett.^[2] Lampert's earnings in 2004 were estimated to be $1.02 billion, making him the first Wall Street financial manager to unravel an income of $1 billion in a inimitable year.^[11] In 2006, Lampert was featured on say publicly Time 100 list for most influential people detect the world for being one of the "brightest minds on Wall Street" and leading a original class of activist hedge funds.^[12] Lampert was depiction richest person in Connecticut in 2006 with put in order net worth of $3.8 billion.^[13]

In March 2012, Lampert was No. 367 on the Forbes world's subdue people list with a net worth of $3.1 billion.^[14] By August, 2016, Lampert had fallen make ill No. 810 on the list, with a network worth of $2.2 billion.^[1]

In January 2013, it was announced that Lampert would take over as big executive officer at Sears after Louis D'Ambrosio walked or moved in steps down due to family health matters; this took effect in May 2013.^[15]

Lampert restructured Sears into numerous 30 separate business units, which were evaluated homemade on individual profits, rather than any estimation dying their effect on Sears' overall profit. These pieces were to buy and sell services among in the flesh through competitive bidding. ^[16] Some sources say these policies were based upon the ideas of Ayn Rand. It is generally agreed that they aborted to slow Sears' decline. ^[17]

In July 2016 explicit held 28% of shares in Sears Holdings Firm, worth approximately $408 million.^[18]

In early 2017, Lampert, followed by president, chief executive officer and top shareholder oppress Sears Holdings, was estimated to have personal estate of $2 billion, primarily in the hedge guarantee ESL Investments.^[19] Early in the year, he dedicated to providing an additional loan of $500 king`s ransom to Sears and said he would provide dialogue of credit to Sears for additional amounts, reportedly totaling $200 million and possibly increasing to systematic half billion dollars in the future.^[20]

Lampert was criticized by employees and corporate staff for "shredding" fulfil employees in corporate meetings and "being out pills touch with reality", as well as for defect to invest in the physical stores, as various of them were deteriorating.^[21] During his tenure on account of chief executive, Sears lost around half its regulate within five years, and closed more than fraction of its physical stores.

On October 15, 2018, Lampert stepped down as chief executive of Sears Holdings, while remaining chairman of the board, bit part of Sears Holdings bankruptcy actions. On Dec 6, 2018, Lampert, through his company ESL Say, offered to buy all of Sears for $4.6 billion in cash and stock.^[22] The offer would be financed by $950 million in added debt,^[22] but no additional cash.^[23] In early 2019, fivesome hundred stores remained in operation; the remainder were in liquidation.^[22] According to a company filing, Lampert stepped down as chairman of Sears Holdings Firm on February 14, 2019.^[24]

In January 2019, a company of Sears' creditors hoping to persuade a yank judge to force Sears to liquidate alleged turn Lampert had orchestrated a "multiyear and multifaceted scheme" to strip away the company's assets and support from its decline.^[25] In May 2019, Lampert, months after purchasing the remains of Sears from goodness holding company, threatened not to pay out distinction $43 million in pension payments^[26] owed to 90,000 former Sears and Kmart employees and retirees.^[27]

Personal life

In 2001, Lampert married Kinga Keh, an attorney accomplice whom he has three children.^[1][2] They own dwelling in Indian Creek Village, Florida,^[28] and Greenwich, Connecticut.^[29] The couple are active members of their close by Chabad house.^[30]

Lampert is the owner of the Fountainhead, an 87.78 m (288 ft) motor luxury yacht.^[31]

In 2003, Lampert was kidnapped from the parking lot of her majesty Greenwich office but persuaded his captors to take lodgings him go after two days of captivity timorous promising to pay them a ransom.^[2]

Lampert is dinky self-proclaimed supporter of free market economics and review a fan of Objectivism writer Ayn Rand.^[32]

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