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Jeffrey Vanderbeek

American businessman (born )

Jeffrey Vanderbeek (born ) is the former owner of the New Jersey Devils, a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League. Vanderbeek, a New Jersey native and Devils season ticket holder since the late s, bought a minority stake in the Devils when Puck Holdings, an affiliate of YankeeNets, purchased the team in In , he bought the team outright and resigned his position as an executive vice president of Lehman Brothers,[1] which he joined in [2] He was ranked the ninth highest paid executive of by Business Week with pay totaling over $29 million.[3]

Owner of the New Jersey Devils

In August , he sold the franchise and the Prudential Center to an investment group led by Josh Harris and David Blitzer for $ million.[4]

Personal life

Raised in Somerville, New Jersey, Vanderbeek moved to Bridgewater Township as a child and graduated from Bridgewater-Raritan High School East in [5]

He resides in Warren Township, New Jersey, having previously resided in South Orange, New Jersey.[6]

References

  1. ^Caldwell, Dave (). "Wall Street Executive to Buy Devils". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 23, Retrieved
  2. ^"Lehman Brothers Holdings, Form DEF 14A, Filing Date Mar 1, ". . Retrieved May 14, Filed Retrieved on
  3. ^Lavelle, Louis (). "Exec Pay: More Pain for CEOs". Business Week. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  4. ^"Devils announce sale of team to billionaire Josh Harris". The Star-Ledger. August 15, Archived from the original on February 6, Retrieved August 15,
  5. ^Frezza, Harry; Deak, Mike. "Jeff Vanderbeek, former Devils owner, to coach Somerville H.S. football"[permanent dead link&#;], Courier News, January 21, Accessed September 4, "Jeff Vanderbeek is a graduate of Bridgewater-Raritan East High School He returns to a place he lived until when the family left their East Spring Street home a few blocks from Brooks Field to live on Northern Drive in Bridgewater."
  6. ^Caldwell, Dave. "Hockey; Wall Street Executive To Purchase Devils", The New York Times, March 3, Accessed October 21, "Vanderbeek said he had been a Devils season-ticket holder for about 15 years. Before he moved to Warren, N.J., Vanderbeek lived in South Orange, not far from the team training complex in West Orange."