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Eddie Lampert

Eddie Lampert
Born
Edward Scott Lampert

(1962-07-19) July 19, 1962 (age 62)
EducationYale University
OccupationHedge fund manager
TitleChairman, Transform Holdco LLC
TermFebruary 2019-
Board member of
Spouse
Kinga Lampert
(m. 2001)
Children3[1]
Chairman, Sears Holdings
In office
January 2013 – February 14, 2019
Preceded byHerman Darling
Succeeded byOffice abolished (assets sold to Transform Holdco LLC)
Chairman, Transform Holdco LLC
Assumed office
February 2019
Preceded byOffice established

Edward Scott Lampert (born July 19, 1962)[2] is an American billionaire businessman. He is the former chief executive and chairman of Sears Holdings, the founder of Transformco, and the founder, chairman, and chief executive of ESL Investments. Until May 2007, he was a director of AutoNation.[3] He was a director of AutoZone from 1999 to 2006.[4] As of October 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$2 billion.[1]

Early life and education

Lampert was born in 1962 to Dolores Lampert and Floyd M. Lampert. He is Jewish.[5] His mother was a housewife. His father was a senior partner in the law firm of Lampert & Lampert in New York City. He has a younger sister Tracey.[6] Lampert's grandmother was a passive investor and a fan of Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street Week television program. She instilled in him an interest in investing. His mother would later recall that young Eddie would sit with his grandmother reviewing and evaluating the performance of her stock picks in the daily newspaper.[2]

Lampert's father died in 1977,[7] and his mother took a job as a clerk at Saks Fifth Avenue.[8] His mother would later say: "Eddie really assumed the responsibility, knowing that life had changed and we had to accomplish something by ourselves now."[2] In order to help support his family, Lampert worked after school and on weekends at various warehouses, stocking shelves and filling orders. Despite working, he earned good grades, played both soccer and basketball, and won the scholar athlete award at his high school. He received financial aid to help pay for college.[8] Lampert graduated from Yale University in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in economics, summa cum laude, where he was a member of Skull and Bones[2][9] and Phi Beta Kappa.

Career

In July 1984, Lampert worked as an intern at Goldman Sachs,[10] and then worked in the firm's risk arbitrage department from March 1985 to February 1988. While there, he worked directly with Robert Rubin. When Lampert decided to go out on his own, Rubin warned him it would be a bad career decision.

In April 1988, Lampert left the bank to form ESL Investments, based in Greenwich, Connecticut (the name derives from Lampert's initials). Richard Rainwater, whom Lampert had met on Nantucket Island, gave him $28 million in seed money and introduced him to clients, such as David Geffen.

A 2004 profile by Businessweek likened Lampert's investment style to that of financier Warren Buffett.[2] Lampert's earnings in 2004 were estimated to be $1.02 billion, making him the first Wall Street financial manager to exceed an income of $1 billion in a single year.[11] In 2006, Lampert was featured on the Time 100 list for most influential people in the world for being one of the "brightest minds on Wall Street" and leading a new class of activist hedge funds.[12] Lampert was the richest person in Connecticut in 2006 with a net worth of $3.8 billion.[13]

In March 2012, Lampert was No. 367 on the Forbes world's wealthiest people list with a net worth of $3.1 billion.[14] By August, 2016, Lampert had fallen to No. 810 on the list, with a net worth of $2.2 billion.[1]

In January 2013, it was announced that Lampert would take over as chief executive officer at Sears after Louis D'Ambrosio stepped down due to family health matters; this took effect in May 2013.[15]

Lampert restructured Sears into approximately 30 separate business units, which were evaluated based on individual profits, rather than any estimation of their effect on Sears' overall profit. These units were to buy and sell services amongst themselves through competitive bidding. [16] Some sources say these policies were based upon the ideas of Ayn Rand. It is generally agreed that they failed to slow Sears' decline. [17]

In July 2016 he held 28% of shares in Sears Holdings Corp, worth approximately $408 million.[18]

In early 2017, Lampert, then president, chief executive officer and top shareholder of Sears Holdings, was estimated to have personal assets of $2 billion, primarily in the hedge fund ESL Investments.[19] Early in the year, he committed to providing an additional loan of $500 million to Sears and said he would provide letters of credit to Sears for additional amounts, reportedly totaling $200 million and possibly increasing to a half billion dollars in the future.[20]

Lampert was criticized by employees and corporate staff for "shredding" his employees in corporate meetings and "being out of touch with reality", as well as for failing to invest in the physical stores, as many of them were deteriorating.[21] During his tenure as chief executive, Sears lost around half its value within five years, and closed more than half of its physical stores.

On October 15, 2018, Lampert stepped down as chief executive of Sears Holdings, while remaining chairman of the board, as part of Sears Holdings bankruptcy actions. On December 6, 2018, Lampert, through his company ESL Investments, offered to buy all of Sears for $4.6 billion in cash and stock.[22] The offer would be financed by $950 million in added debt,[22] but no additional cash.[23] In early 2019, five hundred stores remained in operation; the remainder were in liquidation.[22] According to a company filing, Lampert stepped down as chairman of Sears Holdings Corp on February 14, 2019.[24]

In January 2019, a group of Sears' creditors hoping to persuade a federal judge to force Sears to liquidate alleged that Lampert had orchestrated a "multiyear and multifaceted scheme" to strip away the company's assets and benefit from its decline.[25] In May 2019, Lampert, months after purchasing the remains of Sears from the holding company, threatened not to pay out the $43 million in pension payments[26] owed to 90,000 former Sears and Kmart employees and retirees.[27]

Personal life

In 2001, Lampert married Kinga Keh, an attorney with whom he has three children.[1][2] They own houses in Indian Creek Village, Florida,[28] and Greenwich, Connecticut.[29] The couple are active members of their local Chabad house.[30]

Lampert is the owner of the Fountainhead, an 87.78 m (288 ft) motor luxury yacht.[31]

In 2003, Lampert was kidnapped from the parking lot of his Greenwich office but persuaded his captors to let him go after two days of captivity by promising to pay them a ransom.[2]

Lampert is a self-proclaimed supporter of free market economics and is a fan of Objectivism writer Ayn Rand.[32]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Forbes profile: Edward Lampert". Forbes. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Berner, Robert (November 22, 2004). "The Next Warren Buffett?". Businessweek. Archived from the original on July 5, 2012. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
  3. ^ Miller, James P. (March 26, 2007). "Sears chief won't run for AutoNation's board". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 17, 2007.
  4. ^ "SEC filing". AutoZone, Inc. Retrieved April 16, 2007.
  5. ^ Jewish Business News: "Edward Lampert's Plan to Re-Organize Sears Begins to Take Shape"
  6. ^ "Gary R. Smith Is Wed To Tracey R. Lampert". The New York Times. April 1, 1990.
  7. ^ Social Security Death Index, February 1977.
  8. ^ a b Sellers, Patricia (February 6, 2006). "Eddie Lampert: The best investor of his generation". CNN Money.
  9. ^ Robbins, Alexandra (2002). Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power. Little, Brown and Company. p. 180.
  10. ^ "The Next Warren Buffett?". Bloomberg. 2004-11-22. Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  11. ^ Martin, Patrick (2005-06-09). "Highest Wall Street pay tops $1 billion a year". Retrieved 2007-04-14.
  12. ^ Kadlec, Daniel (2006-05-08). "The 2006 Time 100". content.time.com.
  13. ^ "The 400 Richest Americans (Connecticut Rankings)". Forbes.com. 2006-09-21.
  14. ^ Mason, Melvin (8 March 2012). "Greenwich Home to Billionaires on Forbes List". The Greenwich Daily Voice. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  15. ^ Smith, Aaron (January 8, 2013). "Hedge fund manager Lampert adds CEO role at Sears". CNN Money. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
  16. ^ "At Sears, Eddie Lampert's Warring Divisions Model Adds to the Troubles". Bloomberg. Bloomberg.com. 11 July 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  17. ^ "Ayn Rand Killed Sears". Salon.com. 19 July 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  18. ^ "LAMPERT EDWARD Insider Trading". InsiderMole.com. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  19. ^ "Edward Lampert". Forbes. January 9, 2017. Retrieved January 9, 2017. ...took over as Sears CEO in 2013 ... has presided over a remarkable dismantling.
  20. ^ Sweeney, Brigid (January 5, 2017). "With Craftsman sale, Sears takes another step toward the grave". Chicago Business. Crain Communication, Inc. Retrieved January 9, 2017. The company may need $2.5 billion in cash to get through 2017 amid sales declines and store closures, including almost $600 million in minimum pension contributions.
  21. ^ "Inside Sears' death spiral: How an iconic American brand has been driven to the edge of bankruptcy". businessinsider.com. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  22. ^ a b c "Billionaire who led Sears into bankruptcy offers to buy it". www.cbsnews.com. 6 December 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  23. ^ "Seeking Alpha (9 December 2018) Lampert Is Effectively Paying Nothing Additional For Sears". seekingalpha.com. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  24. ^ "Eddie Lampert steps down as chairman of Sears' board". Business Insider. Reuters. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
  25. ^ "Lampert's Sears Takeover Effort Runs Into Pension Insurer Objection". finance.yahoo.com. 31 January 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  26. ^ Business, By Chris Isidore, CNN (May 29, 2019). "Sears' owner wants to get out of paying $43 million in severance to former employees | CNN Business". CNN. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  27. ^ "Government fears Eddie Lampert would wipe out Sears' pension plans". February 1, 2019.
  28. ^ "Edward Lampert". Forbes. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  29. ^ Fabrikant, Geraldine (February 17, 2002). "Personal Business; Big Returns, Minus the Pleasantries". The New York Times.
  30. ^ Jewish Business News: "Edward Lampert's Plan to Re-Organize Sears Begins to Take Shape" November 26, 2013 | They live in Greenwich Connecticut, where they are active members of the local Chabad House
  31. ^ Finucane, Martin (2017-08-14). "Meet the new superyacht in town: the Fountainhead". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
  32. ^ Kimes, Mina (2013-07-11). "At Sears, Eddie Lampert's Warring Divisions Model Adds to the Troubles". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
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Preceded by
Herman Darling
Chairman of Sears Holdings
January 2013 – February 2019
Succeeded by
Vacant
Preceded by
Herman Darling
CEO of Sears Holdings
January 2013 – October 2018
Succeeded by
Vacant
Preceded by
CEO & Chairman of ESL Investments
April 1988 –
Succeeded by
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