Education
Creighton University. Northwestern University School of Law.
Creighton University. Northwestern University School of Law.
He is also the Chairman of the Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball franchise. Mark is a Cedar Rapids, Iowa native and Graduate of Cedar Rapids Jefferson High School. In 1996, he co-founded the Liberty Hampshire Company, Limited Liability Company with Steven East. Johnson, in Chicago.
In 2000, he helped found Guggenheim Partners, Limited Liability Company. Today, he is the chief executive officer of Guggenheim Partners, which has rapidly grown into a global, diversified financial services firm with more than $170 billion in assets under management, 2,200 employees, and 25 offices in nine countries around the world.
On December 10, 2012, in its annual survey of the "50 Most Influential People in Sports Business," the SportsBusiness Journal named Walter the 8th most influential person in sports business due to the historic Dodgers purchase. Mark Walter also serves as a trustee or director of several organizations including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Northwestern University and the Field Museum.
