Note to Boston’s wealthiest power brokers, influencers, and innovators: There’s still time to join “Founders 100” and help finance the Boston 2024 Olympic bid. But those interested should hurry because this “special society is limited to the first 100 businesses/individuals,” and spaces are filling up quickly.
Membership costs start at $50,000.
Founders 100 is currently comprised of 30 members, The Boston Globe’s Beth Healy reports, describing this group of early donors as “a microcosm of the city’s prosperous and powerful:, male, white and at the peaks of their careers.
The following list of names are included in a Boston 2024 presentation to potential Founders 100 entrants, which was obtained first by the Globe. Separate from the Olympic organizing committee’s leadership, these donors, the presentation (embed: below) notes, comprise Boston 2024’s “Deep Bench of Private Support:”
- Bill Achtmeyer: Parthenon Group
- Steve Barnes: Bain Capital
- Roman Blanco: Santander Bank
- Mark Casady: LPL Financial
- Marc Casper: Thermo Fisher Scientific
- John Connaughton: Bain Capital
- Ralph de la Torre: Steward HealthCare
- Andrew Dreyfus: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
- Sandy & Paul Edgerley: Bain Capital & The Boston Foundation
- Bill Glavin: Oppenheimer Funds
- Wyc Grousbeck: Boston Celtics
- John Hailer: Natixis Global Asset Management
- Amos and Barbara Hostetter: Barr Foundation
- Charlie Jacobs: Boston Bruins
- Robert Kraft: New England Patriots
- Jonathan Lavine: SankatyAdvisors
- Alan Leventhal: Beacon Capital Partners
- David Long: Liberty Mutual
- Peter and Carolyn Lynch: Lynch Foundation
- David Mussafer: Advent International
- Jerry Sargent: Citizens Bank
- Scott Schoen: BaylonCapital
- Nigel Travis: Dunkin Brands
- Joe Tucci: EMC
- Adam Weiner: Weiner Ventures
- Additional leadership-level financial support from architectural and engineer firms, banks, real estate developers, and venture capitalists.
To sweeten the deal, Boston 2024 is offering Founders 100 members a handful of Olympic perks. Those include: “Serving as an Ambassador for the Olympic Movement”; “Participating in private events with Olympians”; “Joining regular insider briefings”; “Receiving weekly updates”; and “Enjoying amenities such as Founders Packet, Boston 2024 Memorabilia, and other services.”
Here’s the sales pitched offered in the presentation: “The power of the Olympics will cement Boston’s international reputation as a leader in diversity, sport, health, education, technology and innovation.”
Featured image via Jim Greenhill, CC By 2.0
