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wyCliffe “wyC” GrousbeCk
Managing Partner, Governor and Chief Executive Officer
Wycliffe Grousbeck has been Managing Partner, Governor and CEO of the Boston Celtics since
December 2002, after organizing and leading a local investment group that purchased the
team.
Wyc named the investment group “Banner 17 LLC” to signify his primary goal, returning the
Celtics to contention for their 17th World Championship. That goal was achieved on June 17,
2008, as the Celtics defeated the Lakers by 39 points and became World Champions for the
first time in 22 years.
In January 2010 Wyc became Chairman of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Mass. Eye
and Ear is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and has been a world leader in advanced research and patient care,
preventing and treating vision and hearing loss, for almost 200 years. It is the largest vision research center in the world. Wyc’s
family has been touched by blindness, and he and his family have been devoted to research and educational initiatives relating
to blindness and other conditions for many years. Wyc founded and co-directs a genetic therapy research project targeting
CEP-290 related blindness, involving eight leading medical institutions and 12 prominent medical researchers (four of whom
are Howard Hughes Investigators). His family was honored to endow the Grousbeck Professorship in Pediatric Hematology/
Oncology at the Harvard Medical School, currently held by Leonard Zon, MD, a leader in stem cell research and cancer biologics.
Prior to purchasing the Celtics with his partners, Wyc served as a General Partner of Highland Capital Partners, co-managing
$1.8 billion in venture capital funds. He led successful investments in medical technology, software and health care services.
His earlier career included four years as a venture capital lawyer in Silicon Valley and two years as a manager in a public
biotech company.
His wife, Corinne, is Founder and Chair of the Trust Board at Perkins School for the Blind (Watertown, MA), an institution devoted
to educating blind and deaf/blind students worldwide. Corinne has also served for many years on the Trust Board of Children’s
Hospital Boston. Wyc and Corinne are also involved in the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation; Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston;
National Braille Press; Horizons for Homeless Children; Cradles to Crayons; and the Lovelane Special Needs Riding Program.
Wyc holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton University (1983), a law degree from the University of Michigan (1986)
and an MBA from Stanford Business School where he was a Miller Scholar (1992). At Princeton he rowed on the undefeated
varsity eight that claimed the Ivy League and national rowing championships in 1983.
H. irvinG GrousbeCk • Managing Partner
H. Irving Grousbeck is a Managing Partner of the Boston Celtics as well as an Executive Committee
Member.
Father of Managing Partner & Governor Wyc Grousbeck, Mr. Grousbeck is a Consulting Professor
or Management at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and co-head of
the school’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. His teaching focuses on an objective means
to develop a greater understanding of the issues faced by entrepreneurial companies and
individuals. In addition to his professorial duties, Grousbeck co-authored the textbook New
Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur. From 1981 to 1985, he was a lecturer at Harvard
University’s Graduate School of Business Administration.
In 1963, Grousbeck co-founded Continental Cablevision and went on to serve as that company’s President from 1964 to 1980
and Chairman of the Board from 1980 to 1985. Continental Cablevision was sold to U.S. West Media Group in November 1996.
Mr. Grousbeck is a graduate of Amherst College and the Harvard Business School. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of
Humane Letters degree by Amherst College in 2000. He serves on a number of private company boards and was formerly
a Trustee of Children’s Hospital Boston, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, New England Eye Bank, the Hewlett Foundation, and the
Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.