John Muse (businessman)

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John Muse
Born
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater United States Air Force Academy
UCLA
OccupationChairman of Lucchese Boot Company
SpouseLyn Muse

John Muse is an American businessman, polo player and philanthropist. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life

John Muse was born in Fort Worth, Texas. [2] He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1973, where he played intercollegiate lacrosse, and received an M.B.A. from UCLA in 1974. [1] [4]

Career

From 1980 to 1984, he served as Senior Vice President and a Director of Schneider, Bernet & Hickman in Dallas. [5] From 1984 to 1989, he directed the investment banking activities of Prudential Securities for the Southwestern United States market. [5] [6] In 1989, he co-founded HM Capital Partners, a hedge fund, with Tom Hicks. [7] He moved to London in 1998 to expand the hedge fund in the European market. [4] [5] [8] He is a member of the 21st Century Group and Senior Advisor of Gerken Capital Associates, two investment firms. [4] [9] [10]

He is Chairman of the Lucchese Boot Company, best known for selling cowboy boots. [2] [11] [12] He is also Chairman of the Board of Kainos Capital and Arena Brands. [5] He sits on the Board of Directors of Dean Foods, Swift and Co, two food corporations, and Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford, a reinsurance corporation. [1] [4] [5] [6] [9] [11] [13] He has served on the boards of Life Partners, the Regal Entertainment Group, International Home Foods, Burton's Biscuit Company, Viatel Holding Ltd., Sunrise Television Corporation, Premier Foods, EurotaxGlass International AG, Lion Capital LLP, and the Morningstar Group. [5]

Muse was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of Nexstar Media Group in January 2017, and is currently serving on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. [14]

Philanthropy

He serves on the board of the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. [1] [5] [11] [13]

Polo

He learned to play polo at the Ascot Park Polo Club in Ascot, Berkshire, England in 2001. [2] [15] He sponsors the Lucchese Polo Team. [2] [12] [15] [16] Other players include Adolfo Cambiaso, Andres Weisz, Jason Crowder, Santiago Torres and Sebastian Merlos. [2] [15] [16]

Personal life

He is married to Lyn Muse, a UCLA alumnus and interior designer. [17] They have five children. [17] They live in a US$50 million mansion in Highland Park, Texas (a suburb of Dallas, Texas). [18] [19] The house was designed by British architect Quinlan Terry, and completed in 2001. It is built in the Neo-Palladian style.

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jennifer Evans, Riding High Archived 2011-11-05 at the Wayback Machine , lucchese.com
  3. ↑ "Featured Donor - John and Lyn Muse". Dallas College Foundation. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Gerken Capital Associates biography
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bloomberg BusinessWeek [ dead link ]
  6. 1 2 Dean Foods Board of Directors
  7. ↑ CEO | John Muse, HM Capital Partners | Season 2 | Episode 10 . Retrieved 2024-12-12– via www.pbs.org.
  8. ↑ UCLA Anderson School of Management
  9. 1 2 21st Century Group Archived 2013-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Gerken Capital Associates team
  11. 1 2 3 Forbes
  12. 1 2 UCLA
  13. 1 2 HM Capital Partners biography Archived 2012-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ "Nexstar Media Group, Inc. | Board of Directors". Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Retrieved 2024-12-12.
  15. 1 2 3 Lucchese Polo Team Archived 2013-03-19 at the Wayback Machine
  16. 1 2 John Zant, Lucchese on Top Again, Santa Barbara Independent , September 4, 2011
  17. 1 2 Dallas County Community College District
  18. ↑ Eric Nicholson, Business Partner Says Co-Founder of Tom Hicks' Private Equity Firm Screwed Him Over, Dallas Observer , August 28, 2012
  19. ↑ The 100 Most Expensive Homes in Dallas 2009 Archived 2013-02-27 at the Wayback Machine , D Magazine , June 22, 2009
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