Robert K. Kraft

Robert Kraft is the Founder, Chairman, and President of The Kraft Group; a diversified holding company with assets in manufacturing of paper and packaging, international distribution of forest products, sports and entertainment, real estate development, philanthropy, and a private equity portfolio. Kraft's best-known holdings are the National Football League's New England Patriots and Major League Soccer's New England Revolution, as well as Gillette Stadium. Since Kraft bought the Patriots in 1994, they became the most successful franchise in the NFL. Currently he is on the Board of Directors of Viacom, serves as a trustee of Boston College and is on the Executive Committee of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He served as a Trustee of Columbia University from 1992 to 2004. He has served on the board of directors of numerous institutions, including the Federal Reserve of Boston (New England), the board of overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and has received honorary degrees from a variety of New England universities. In 2006, Kraft was awarded the NCAA's highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Award, presented annually to a distinguished citizen of national reputation and outstanding accomplishments. Among the many institutions the Krafts have supported are Columbia University, Harvard Business School, Brandeis University, The College of the Holy Cross, Boston College, Tufts University, the Belmont Hill School, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, the Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, and Massachusetts General Hospital.