George Lindemann

George Lindemann

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George Lindemann
Born George L. Lindemann
1936
New York City
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Education B.A. University of Pennsylvania[1]
Occupation businessman
Net worth IncreaseUS$2.4 billion (March 2013)[1]
Spouse(s) Frayda B. Lindemann
Children Adam Lindemann
Sloan Lindemann Barnett
George Lindemann Jr.

George Lindemann is an American businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Union, a pipeline company.[2][3][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-language radio stations.[4][6]

Early life and education[edit]

George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family[7] in 1936 in New York City.[2] He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3][6]

Career[edit]

From 1962 to 1972, he served as the President of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company.[3] He sold Permalens, his family company, to Cooper Labs for $75 million in 1971, and founded Vision Cable in 1972.[2][4][5][6] In 1982, he sold it to Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and his brother for $220 million.[2][4][5][6] Shortly after, he founded a cell phone company called Metro Mobile and later sold it to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion in 1991.[2][4][5][6] He was then the CEO of Southern Union, a pipeline company, which was sold in 2012 to Energy Transfer Equity, LP for approximately $2.0 billion.[2][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-speaking radio stations.[4][6] He has been the President of Cellular Dynamics and the Managing General Partner of Activated Communications Limited Partnership since 1982.[3] He has been a General Partner of Panhandle Eastern since 1990.[3] He sits on the Board of Directors of HI Europe Limited and on the Advisory Board of Hudson Clean Energy Partners.[3]

Philanthropy and political activities[edit]

He has made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ed Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx.[8] He is a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.[9]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann[2] who serves as Vice-President on the Board of the Metropolitan Opera.[5] They have three children:[2]

  • Adam Marc Lindemann, President of Lindemann Capital, a renowned art collector, a columnist for the NY Observer, and a former champion polo player.[5] In 1989, he married Elizabeth Ashley Graham.[10] Her maternal grandfather is Charles R. Denny, former chairman of the FCC.[10]
  • Sloan Lindemann Barnett sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York University School of Law and runs a natural health products business.[5] She is married to Roger Barnett, CEO of Shaklee, the largest natural nutrition company in the United States. They have three children.[11]
  • George Lindemann Jr., is a former highly ranked equestrian, now well-known art collector, investor, environmental advocate and philanthropist in Miami.[5] He serves as the president of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art.

George Lindemann Sr. lives in Palm Beach, Florida, with further homes on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut.[2][4][5][6] As of September 2011, he is the 736th richest person in the world, and the 220th richest in the United States, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2.1 billion.[2] He owns a 180-foot schooner, Adela, which has won international sailing competitions.[5][6] The Lindemanns are members of the Jewish Federation of Long Beach County.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Forbes: The World's Billionaires: "George Lindemann" March 2013
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Forbes profile
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f BusinessWeek profile
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Robert Trigaux, 'Florida boasts 10 of world's richest', in St. Petersburg Times, February 28, 2003 [1]
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Latterman and Michael J. De La Merced, 'Natural Gas Bidding War Puts Spotlight on a Billionaire', in The New York Times, June 28, 2011 [2]
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Wharton Magazine
  7. Jump up ^ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of George Lindemann April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  8. Jump up ^ Huffington Post campaign contributions
  9. Jump up ^ Center for Jewish History Bulletin Fall/Winter 2006
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b New York Times: "Elizabeth Graham, Graduate Student, Is Married to Adam Marc Lindemann" October 16, 1989
  11. Jump up ^ New York University Law Alumni of the Month December 2009: Sloan Lindemann Barnett ’93 retrieved May 3, 2013
  12. Jump up ^ Jewish Federation of Long Beach County Honor Roll 2011
Persondata
Name Lindemann, George
Alternative names
Short description Businessperson
Date of birth 1936
Place of birth New York City
Date of death
Place of death
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George Lindemann Journal "No plans for repeat of Florida's massive python hunt" @miamiherald

George Lindemann

PythonsintheEverglades

The event drew more than 1,500 would-be snake killers from across the United States. News crews arrived from around the world to film the spectacle. And it netted 68 Burmese pythons, the huge non-native constrictors that have challenged alligators for supremacy in the South Florida swamps.

But there are no plans for a repeat of the Python Challenge, the two-month snake-killing contest that took place at the beginning of the year. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission called it a success despite its modest tally because it delivered a mountain of data to scientists and allowed the agency to more sharply focus the future fight against the snake.

But once was enough.

"Our primary goal for the Python Challenge was to raise awareness, and we felt like we reached that goal," said Kristen Sommers, the wildlife agency's Exotic Species Coordination Section Leader.

Everglades National Park last week hosted a meeting of representatives of various state and federal agencies to discuss how to proceed in the fight against the snakes. They assessed various tactics, such as the use of dogs and fitting female snakes with transmitters.

"All of the data is coming back and scientists are looking at it," said Linda Friar, spokeswoman for the park, the center of the infestation. "A number of these techniques work. The big challenge in South Florida is the landscape. They're very difficult to see. The challenge is how you find and remove snakes in this big wilderness that has so many protections. You have 2,400 square miles, and most of it is inaccessible. It's just a very challenging wilderness."

Hunters have never been allowed to go after pythons in Everglades National Park because national parks don't allow hunting. But the park has tried many tactics to eradicate the snakes, which are blamed for taking a growing toll on the park's wildlife, from wading birds and alligators to the rabbits, raccoons and opossums that had once been common sites along the main park road.

"It remains a high priority, and we're concerned," said Friar. "We are seeing less small mammals. We know through necropsies that they eat them, in addition to wading birds."

During the state's Python Challenge, which took place on Everglades lands outside the park, it quickly became clear that the most successful hunters were the ones who had experience catching pythons. So the wildlife agency has begun meeting with hunting groups to train them in the rudiments of finding and killing pythons as they tramp through the woods during hunting seasons that run roughly from August through the middle of April.

"Just because we're not having a Python Challenge, doesn't mean there aren't the opportunities for people to hunt pythons," Sommers said.

It was one such accidental encounter in May that led to the killing of the state's record python, an eighteen-foot, eight-inch monster spotted in some bushes by a man riding an all-terrain vehicle near Florida City. He killed the 128-pound female with a knife, after a long struggle in which the snake wrapped itself around his legs.

The wildlife commission has also established programs to train people who are out in the wild anyway – such as electric company workers and law enforcement officers – how to kill or where to report sightings of the snakes. Since 2010, they have trained 449 people, as well as an additional 1,000 or so in how to detect them.

George Lindemann

George Lindemann

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George Lindemann
Born George L. Lindemann
1936
New York City
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Education B.A. University of Pennsylvania[1]
Occupation businessman
Net worth IncreaseUS$2.4 billion (March 2013)[1]
Spouse(s) Frayda B. Lindemann
Children Adam Lindemann
Sloan Lindemann Barnett
George Lindemann Jr.

George Lindemann is an American businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Union, a pipeline company.[2][3][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-language radio stations.[4][6]

Early life and education[edit]

George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family[7] in 1936 in New York City.[2] He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3][6]

Career[edit]

From 1962 to 1972, he served as the President of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company.[3] He sold Permalens, his family company, to Cooper Labs for $75 million in 1971, and founded Vision Cable in 1972.[2][4][5][6] In 1982, he sold it to Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and his brother for $220 million.[2][4][5][6] Shortly after, he founded a cell phone company called Metro Mobile and later sold it to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion in 1991.[2][4][5][6] He was then the CEO of Southern Union, a pipeline company, which was sold in 2012 to Energy Transfer Equity, LP for approximately $2.0 billion.[2][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-speaking radio stations.[4][6] He has been the President of Cellular Dynamics and the Managing General Partner of Activated Communications Limited Partnership since 1982.[3] He has been a General Partner of Panhandle Eastern since 1990.[3] He sits on the Board of Directors of HI Europe Limited and on the Advisory Board of Hudson Clean Energy Partners.[3]

Philanthropy and political activities[edit]

He has made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ed Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx.[8] He is a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.[9]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann[2] who serves as Vice-President on the Board of the Metropolitan Opera.[5] They have three children:[2]

  • Adam Marc Lindemann, President of Lindemann Capital, a renowned art collector, a columnist for the NY Observer, and a former champion polo player.[5] In 1989, he married Elizabeth Ashley Graham.[10] Her maternal grandfather is Charles R. Denny, former chairman of the FCC.[10]
  • Sloan Lindemann Barnett sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York University School of Law and runs a natural health products business.[5] She is married to Roger Barnett, CEO of Shaklee, the largest natural nutrition company in the United States. They have three children.[11]
  • George Lindemann Jr., is a former highly ranked equestrian, now well-known art collector, investor, environmental advocate and philanthropist in Miami.[5] He serves as the president of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art.

George Lindemann Sr. lives in Palm Beach, Florida, with further homes on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut.[2][4][5][6] As of September 2011, he is the 736th richest person in the world, and the 220th richest in the United States, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2.1 billion.[2] He owns a 180-foot schooner, Adela, which has won international sailing competitions.[5][6] The Lindemanns are members of the Jewish Federation of Long Beach County.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Forbes: The World's Billionaires: "George Lindemann" March 2013
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Forbes profile
  3. ^ a b c d e f BusinessWeek profile
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Robert Trigaux, 'Florida boasts 10 of world's richest', in St. Petersburg Times, February 28, 2003 [1]
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Latterman and Michael J. De La Merced, 'Natural Gas Bidding War Puts Spotlight on a Billionaire', in The New York Times, June 28, 2011 [2]
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Wharton Magazine
  7. ^ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of George Lindemann April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  8. ^ Huffington Post campaign contributions
  9. ^ Center for Jewish History Bulletin Fall/Winter 2006
  10. ^ a b New York Times: "Elizabeth Graham, Graduate Student, Is Married to Adam Marc Lindemann" October 16, 1989
  11. ^ New York University Law Alumni of the Month December 2009: Sloan Lindemann Barnett ’93 retrieved May 3, 2013
  12. ^ Jewish Federation of Long Beach County Honor Roll 2011
Persondata
Name Lindemann, George
Alternative names
Short description Businessperson
Date of birth 1936
Place of birth New York City
Date of death
Place of death
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George Lindemann

George Lindemann

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Jump to: navigation, search
George Lindemann
Born George L. Lindemann
1936
New York City
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Education B.A. University of Pennsylvania[1]
Occupation businessman
Net worth IncreaseUS$2.4 billion (March 2013)[1]
Spouse(s) Frayda B. Lindemann
Children Adam Lindemann
Sloan Lindemann Barnett
George Lindemann Jr.

George Lindemann is an American businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Union, a pipeline company.[2][3][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-language radio stations.[4][6]

Early life and education[edit]

George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family[7] in 1936 in New York City.[2] He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3][6]

Career[edit]

From 1962 to 1972, he served as the President of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company.[3] He sold Permalens, his family company, to Cooper Labs for $75 million in 1971, and founded Vision Cable in 1972.[2][4][5][6] In 1982, he sold it to Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and his brother for $220 million.[2][4][5][6] Shortly after, he founded a cell phone company called Metro Mobile and later sold it to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion in 1991.[2][4][5][6] He was then the CEO of Southern Union, a pipeline company, which was sold in 2012 to Energy Transfer Equity, LP for approximately $2.0 billion.[2][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-speaking radio stations.[4][6] He has been the President of Cellular Dynamics and the Managing General Partner of Activated Communications Limited Partnership since 1982.[3] He has been a General Partner of Panhandle Eastern since 1990.[3] He sits on the Board of Directors of HI Europe Limited and on the Advisory Board of Hudson Clean Energy Partners.[3]

Philanthropy and political activities[edit]

He has made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ed Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx.[8] He is a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.[9]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann[2] who serves as Vice-President on the Board of the Metropolitan Opera.[5] They have three children:[2]

  • Adam Marc Lindemann, President of Lindemann Capital, a renowned art collector, a columnist for the NY Observer, and a former champion polo player.[5] In 1989, he married Elizabeth Ashley Graham.[10] Her maternal grandfather is Charles R. Denny, former chairman of the FCC.[10]
  • Sloan Lindemann Barnett sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York University School of Law and runs a natural health products business.[5] She is married to Roger Barnett, CEO of Shaklee, the largest natural nutrition company in the United States. They have three children.[11]
  • George Lindemann Jr., is a former highly ranked equestrian, now well-known art collector, investor, environmental advocate and philanthropist in Miami.[5] He serves as the president of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art.

George Lindemann Sr. lives in Palm Beach, Florida, with further homes on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut.[2][4][5][6] As of September 2011, he is the 736th richest person in the world, and the 220th richest in the United States, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2.1 billion.[2] He owns a 180-foot schooner, Adela, which has won international sailing competitions.[5][6] The Lindemanns are members of the Jewish Federation of Long Beach County.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Forbes: The World's Billionaires: "George Lindemann" March 2013
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Forbes profile
  3. ^ a b c d e f BusinessWeek profile
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Robert Trigaux, 'Florida boasts 10 of world's richest', in St. Petersburg Times, February 28, 2003 [1]
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Latterman and Michael J. De La Merced, 'Natural Gas Bidding War Puts Spotlight on a Billionaire', in The New York Times, June 28, 2011 [2]
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Wharton Magazine
  7. ^ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of George Lindemann April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  8. ^ Huffington Post campaign contributions
  9. ^ Center for Jewish History Bulletin Fall/Winter 2006
  10. ^ a b New York Times: "Elizabeth Graham, Graduate Student, Is Married to Adam Marc Lindemann" October 16, 1989
  11. ^ New York University Law Alumni of the Month December 2009: Sloan Lindemann Barnett ’93 retrieved May 3, 2013
  12. ^ Jewish Federation of Long Beach County Honor Roll 2011
Persondata
Name Lindemann, George
Alternative names
Short description Businessperson
Date of birth 1936
Place of birth New York City
Date of death
Place of death
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George Lindemann

George Lindemann

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
George Lindemann
Born George L. Lindemann
1936
New York City
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Education B.A. University of Pennsylvania[1]
Occupation businessman
Net worth IncreaseUS$2.4 billion (March 2013)[1]
Spouse(s) Frayda B. Lindemann
Children Adam Lindemann
Sloan Lindemann Barnett
George Lindemann Jr.

George Lindemann is an American businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Union, a pipeline company.[2][3][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-language radio stations.[4][6]

Early life and education[edit]

George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family[7] in 1936 in New York City.[2] He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3][6]

Career[edit]

From 1962 to 1972, he served as the President of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company.[3] He sold Permalens, his family company, to Cooper Labs for $75 million in 1971, and founded Vision Cable in 1972.[2][4][5][6] In 1982, he sold it to Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and his brother for $220 million.[2][4][5][6] Shortly after, he founded a cell phone company called Metro Mobile and later sold it to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion in 1991.[2][4][5][6] He was then the CEO of Southern Union, a pipeline company, which was sold in 2012 to Energy Transfer Equity, LP for approximately $2.0 billion.[2][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-speaking radio stations.[4][6] He has been the President of Cellular Dynamics and the Managing General Partner of Activated Communications Limited Partnership since 1982.[3] He has been a General Partner of Panhandle Eastern since 1990.[3] He sits on the Board of Directors of HI Europe Limited and on the Advisory Board of Hudson Clean Energy Partners.[3]

Philanthropy and political activities[edit]

He has made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ed Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx.[8] He is a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.[9]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann[2] who serves as Vice-President on the Board of the Metropolitan Opera.[5] They have three children:[2]

  • Adam Marc Lindemann, President of Lindemann Capital, a renowned art collector, a columnist for the NY Observer, and a former champion polo player.[5] In 1989, he married Elizabeth Ashley Graham.[10] Her maternal grandfather is Charles R. Denny, former chairman of the FCC.[10]
  • Sloan Lindemann Barnett sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York University School of Law and runs a natural health products business.[5] She is married to Roger Barnett, CEO of Shaklee, the largest natural nutrition company in the United States. They have three children.[11]
  • George Lindemann Jr., is a former highly ranked equestrian, now well-known art collector, investor, environmental advocate and philanthropist in Miami.[5] He serves as the president of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art.

George Lindemann Sr. lives in Palm Beach, Florida, with further homes on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut.[2][4][5][6] As of September 2011, he is the 736th richest person in the world, and the 220th richest in the United States, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2.1 billion.[2] He owns a 180-foot schooner, Adela, which has won international sailing competitions.[5][6] The Lindemanns are members of the Jewish Federation of Long Beach County.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Forbes: The World's Billionaires: "George Lindemann" March 2013
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Forbes profile
  3. ^ a b c d e f BusinessWeek profile
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Robert Trigaux, 'Florida boasts 10 of world's richest', in St. Petersburg Times, February 28, 2003 [1]
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Latterman and Michael J. De La Merced, 'Natural Gas Bidding War Puts Spotlight on a Billionaire', in The New York Times, June 28, 2011 [2]
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Wharton Magazine
  7. ^ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of George Lindemann April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  8. ^ Huffington Post campaign contributions
  9. ^ Center for Jewish History Bulletin Fall/Winter 2006
  10. ^ a b New York Times: "Elizabeth Graham, Graduate Student, Is Married to Adam Marc Lindemann" October 16, 1989
  11. ^ New York University Law Alumni of the Month December 2009: Sloan Lindemann Barnett ’93 retrieved May 3, 2013
  12. ^ Jewish Federation of Long Beach County Honor Roll 2011
Persondata
Name Lindemann, George
Alternative names
Short description Businessperson
Date of birth 1936
Place of birth New York City
Date of death
Place of death
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George Lindemann

George Lindemann

George Lindemann

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
George Lindemann
Born George L. Lindemann
1936
New York City
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Education B.A. University of Pennsylvania[1]
Occupation businessman
Net worth IncreaseUS$2.4 billion (March 2013)[1]
Spouse(s) Frayda B. Lindemann
Children Adam Lindemann
Sloan Lindemann Barnett
George Lindemann Jr.

George Lindemann is an American businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Union, a pipeline company.[2][3][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-language radio stations.[4][6]

Early life and education[edit]

George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family[7] in 1936 in New York City.[2] He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3][6]

Career[edit]

From 1962 to 1972, he served as the President of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company.[3] He sold Permalens, his family company, to Cooper Labs for $75 million in 1971, and founded Vision Cable in 1972.[2][4][5][6] In 1982, he sold it to Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and his brother for $220 million.[2][4][5][6] Shortly after, he founded a cell phone company called Metro Mobile and later sold it to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion in 1991.[2][4][5][6] He was then the CEO of Southern Union, a pipeline company, which was sold in 2012 to Energy Transfer Equity, LP for approximately $2.0 billion.[2][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-speaking radio stations.[4][6] He has been the President of Cellular Dynamics and the Managing General Partner of Activated Communications Limited Partnership since 1982.[3] He has been a General Partner of Panhandle Eastern since 1990.[3] He sits on the Board of Directors of HI Europe Limited and on the Advisory Board of Hudson Clean Energy Partners.[3]

Philanthropy and political activities[edit]

He has made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ed Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx.[8] He is a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.[9]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann[2] who serves as Vice-President on the Board of the Metropolitan Opera.[5] They have three children:[2]

  • Adam Marc Lindemann, President of Lindemann Capital, a renowned art collector, a columnist for the NY Observer, and a former champion polo player.[5] In 1989, he married Elizabeth Ashley Graham.[10] Her maternal grandfather is Charles R. Denny, former chairman of the FCC.[10]
  • Sloan Lindemann Barnett sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York University School of Law and runs a natural health products business.[5] She is married to Roger Barnett, CEO of Shaklee, the largest natural nutrition company in the United States. They have three children.[11]
  • George Lindemann Jr., is a former highly ranked equestrian, now well-known art collector, investor, environmental advocate and philanthropist in Miami.[5] He serves as the president of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art.

George Lindemann Sr. lives in Palm Beach, Florida, with further homes on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut.[2][4][5][6] As of September 2011, he is the 736th richest person in the world, and the 220th richest in the United States, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2.1 billion.[2] He owns a 180-foot schooner, Adela, which has won international sailing competitions.[5][6] The Lindemanns are members of the Jewish Federation of Long Beach County.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Forbes: The World's Billionaires: "George Lindemann" March 2013
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Forbes profile
  3. ^ a b c d e f BusinessWeek profile
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Robert Trigaux, 'Florida boasts 10 of world's richest', in St. Petersburg Times, February 28, 2003 [1]
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Latterman and Michael J. De La Merced, 'Natural Gas Bidding War Puts Spotlight on a Billionaire', in The New York Times, June 28, 2011 [2]
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Wharton Magazine
  7. ^ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of George Lindemann April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  8. ^ Huffington Post campaign contributions
  9. ^ Center for Jewish History Bulletin Fall/Winter 2006
  10. ^ a b New York Times: "Elizabeth Graham, Graduate Student, Is Married to Adam Marc Lindemann" October 16, 1989
  11. ^ New York University Law Alumni of the Month December 2009: Sloan Lindemann Barnett ’93 retrieved May 3, 2013
  12. ^ Jewish Federation of Long Beach County Honor Roll 2011
Persondata
Name Lindemann, George
Alternative names
Short description Businessperson
Date of birth 1936
Place of birth New York City
Date of death
Place of death
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George Lindemann

George Lindemann

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
George Lindemann
Born George L. Lindemann
1936
New York City
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Education B.A. University of Pennsylvania[1]
Occupation businessman
Net worth IncreaseUS$2.4 billion (March 2013)[1]
Spouse(s) Frayda B. Lindemann
Children Adam Lindemann
Sloan Lindemann Barnett
George Lindemann Jr.

George Lindemann is an American businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Union, a pipeline company.[2][3][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-language radio stations.[4][6]

Early life and education[edit]

George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family[7] in 1936 in New York City.[2] He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3][6]

Career[edit]

From 1962 to 1972, he served as the President of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company.[3] He sold Permalens, his family company, to Cooper Labs for $75 million in 1971, and founded Vision Cable in 1972.[2][4][5][6] In 1982, he sold it to Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and his brother for $220 million.[2][4][5][6] Shortly after, he founded a cell phone company called Metro Mobile and later sold it to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion in 1991.[2][4][5][6] He was then the CEO of Southern Union, a pipeline company, which was sold in 2012 to Energy Transfer Equity, LP for approximately $2.0 billion.[2][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-speaking radio stations.[4][6] He has been the President of Cellular Dynamics and the Managing General Partner of Activated Communications Limited Partnership since 1982.[3] He has been a General Partner of Panhandle Eastern since 1990.[3] He sits on the Board of Directors of HI Europe Limited and on the Advisory Board of Hudson Clean Energy Partners.[3]

Philanthropy and political activities[edit]

He has made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ed Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx.[8] He is a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.[9]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann[2] who serves as Vice-President on the Board of the Metropolitan Opera.[5] They have three children:[2]

  • Adam Marc Lindemann, President of Lindemann Capital, a renowned art collector, a columnist for the NY Observer, and a former champion polo player.[5] In 1989, he married Elizabeth Ashley Graham.[10] Her maternal grandfather is Charles R. Denny, former chairman of the FCC.[10]
  • Sloan Lindemann Barnett sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York University School of Law and runs a natural health products business.[5] She is married to Roger Barnett, CEO of Shaklee, the largest natural nutrition company in the United States. They have three children.[11]
  • George Lindemann Jr., is a former highly ranked equestrian, now well-known art collector, investor, environmental advocate and philanthropist in Miami.[5] He serves as the president of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art.

George Lindemann Sr. lives in Palm Beach, Florida, with further homes on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut.[2][4][5][6] As of September 2011, he is the 736th richest person in the world, and the 220th richest in the United States, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2.1 billion.[2] He owns a 180-foot schooner, Adela, which has won international sailing competitions.[5][6] The Lindemanns are members of the Jewish Federation of Long Beach County.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Forbes: The World's Billionaires: "George Lindemann" March 2013
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Forbes profile
  3. ^ a b c d e f BusinessWeek profile
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Robert Trigaux, 'Florida boasts 10 of world's richest', in St. Petersburg Times, February 28, 2003 [1]
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Latterman and Michael J. De La Merced, 'Natural Gas Bidding War Puts Spotlight on a Billionaire', in The New York Times, June 28, 2011 [2]
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Wharton Magazine
  7. ^ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of George Lindemann April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  8. ^ Huffington Post campaign contributions
  9. ^ Center for Jewish History Bulletin Fall/Winter 2006
  10. ^ a b New York Times: "Elizabeth Graham, Graduate Student, Is Married to Adam Marc Lindemann" October 16, 1989
  11. ^ New York University Law Alumni of the Month December 2009: Sloan Lindemann Barnett ’93 retrieved May 3, 2013
  12. ^ Jewish Federation of Long Beach County Honor Roll 2011
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George Lindemann Journal - "A Blend of Beauty and Violence" @wsj -By Mary Lane

George Lindemann Journal

By
Mary M. Lane

Updated Nov. 15, 2013 12:13 p.m. ET

On a fall evening in 2007, New York-based dealer Arne Glimcher sat in a Sotheby's BID +2.46% Sotheby's U.S.: NYSE $51.99 +1.25+2.46% Nov 15, 2013 2:20 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 685,095 P/E Ratio 33.76 Market Cap $3.49 Billion Dividend Yield 0.77% Rev. per Employee $536,709 5352515010a11a12p1p2p3p 11/14/13 Peltz Holds On to Mondelez Sta... 11/14/13 'Pink Star' Diamond Fetches Re... 11/12/13 Stocks to Watch: Sarepta, Dish... More quote details and news » BID in Your Value Your Change Short position auction room in London and watched bidding soar for "Garden of Earthly Delights III," a fantastical painting by artist Raqib Shaw.

The seascape—made with glitter, rhinestones and enamel—featured underwater fights between marine chimaera, including a toucan-headed man attacking a malevolent creature with piranha fangs. When the hammer fell, the painting sold for $5.5 million, almost seven times its $811,000 low estimate. (Mr. Glimcher had given up after $2.5 million.)

Seeing the works convinced Mr. Glimcher that the Calcutta-born artist would be a perfect addition to Pace, his New York-based gallery. The dealer began wooing Mr. Shaw with an ambitious plan to fill three of Pace's four Manhattan spaces with the artist's work for his debut gallery show in America.

That exhibition, "Paradise Lost," opened last week and runs through Jan. 11. It depicts bizarre fantasy worlds being destroyed by violent savagery through 10 paintings, three sculptures and three works on paper. The show has been drawing 1,000 visitors a day—a lot for a small gallery space—and represents four years of labor for Mr. Shaw, a self-described "recluse" who goes weeks without leaving his London studio. He lives there with his dogs Minty and Mr. C and a collection of over 50 indoor bonsai trees.

"I don't do friends and family. I think they're a waste of time," he says, adding that he leaves the long-term safekeeping of his career to Mr. Glimcher, who nurtured the careers of heavyweight artists Robert Rauschenberg and Agnes Martin.

At the Pace show in New York, Mr. Shaw's paintings run from $500,000 to $1.5 million, his works on paper are $275,000 and his sculptures are $375,000 to $3 million. All have already sold.

Each of Mr. Shaw's works requires several months. The 39-year-old artist says that their painstaking detail has ensured that he hasn't taken a vacation in 15 years.

He spends weeks crafting intricate drawings on vellum parchment before transferring them to absorbent, high-grain birchwood panels reinforced by metal. Then, Mr. Shaw uses flammable enamels including Mercedes-Benz auto paint to create fantasy characters in loud colors, including neon green and orange.

In "Arrival of the Rain King—Paradise Lost II," Mr. Shaw depicts an imposing neoclassical edifice being torn apart by zebras with human arms and lion-like heads. The creatures also battle for dominance, tearing off chunks of each other's flesh.

Mr. Shaw's inspiration was the contemporary clash between Eastern and Western cultures, the writings of John Milton and the apocalyptic paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, he says.

The trio of sculptures by Mr. Shaw all feature athletic male nudes with smooth bodies that contrast sharply with the heads of reptiles, rams and rhinoceroses. Each creature wears a pair of trendy, lace-up boots, a reference to Mr. Shaw's original wish to become a fashion designer as a child.

"I can't do scissors and stitching," he says.

George Lindemann Journal - "At $142.4 Million, Triptych Is the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at an Auction" @nytimes -by Carol Vogel

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At $142.4 Million, Triptych Is the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at an Auction

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It took seven superrich bidders to propel a 1969 Francis Bacon triptych to $142.4 million at Christie’s on Tuesday night, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. William Acquavella, the New York dealer, is thought to have bought the painting on behalf of an unidentified client, from one of Christie’s skyboxes overlooking the auction.

The price for the painting, which depicts Lucian Freud, Bacon’s friend and rival, perched on a wooden chair, was more than the $85 million Christie’s had estimated. It also toppled the previous record set in May 2012 when Edvard Munch’s fabled pastel of “The Scream” sold at Sotheby’s for $119.9 million and broke the previous record for the artist at auction set at the peak of the market in May 2008, when Sotheby’s sold a triptych from 1976 to the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich for $86.2 million.

When the bidding for “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” finally stopped, after more than 10 fraught minutes, the overflowing crowd in the salesroom burst into applause. Two disappointed bidders could be seen leaving the room. “I went to $101 million but it hardly mattered,” said Larry Gagosian, the super-dealer who was trying to buy the painting on behalf of a client. Another contender was Hong Gyu Shin, the director of the Shin Gallery on Grand Street in Manhattan, who said he was bidding for himself.

“I was expecting it to go for around $87 million,” Mr. Shin said. Although he explained that he collects mostly Japanese woodblock prints and old master paintings, he found the triptych by the Irish-born painter, who died in 1992, irresistible. “I loved that painting and I couldn’t control myself,” he said. “Maybe someday I’ll have another chance.”

For more than a month now, Christie’s has been billing the sale as a landmark event with a greater number of paintings and sculptures estimated to sell for over $20 million than it has ever had before. The hard sell apparently worked. Nearly 10,000 visitors flocked to its galleries to preview the auction. The sale totaled $691.5 million, far above Christie’s $670.4 million high estimate, becoming the most expensive auction ever. It outstripped the $495 million total set at Christie’s in May.

Of the 69 works on offer, only six failed to sell. All told, 10 world record prices were achieved for artists who, besides Bacon, included Christopher Wool, Ad Reinhardt, Donald Judd and Willem de Kooning.

The sale was also a place to see and be seen. Christie’s Rockefeller Center salesroom was standing room only, with collectors including Michael Ovitz, the Los Angeles talent agent; Aby Rosen, the New York real estate developer; Martin Margulies, from Miami; Donald B. Marron, the New York financier; and Daniel S. Loeb, the activist investor and hedge fund manager.

The Bacon triptych was not the only highflier. A 10-foot-tall mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture that resembled a child’s party favor, Jeff Koons’s “Balloon Dog (Orange)” sold to another telephone bidder for $58.4 million, above its high $55 million estimate, becoming the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction. The pooch was being sold by Peter M. Brant, the newsprint magnate who auctioned the canine to raise money to endow his Greenwich, Conn., foundation. In the 1990s, Mr. Koons had created the sculpture in an edition of five, each in a different color. Four celebrated collectors own the others: Steven A. Cohen, the hedge-fund billionaire, has a yellow one; Eli Broad, the Los Angeles financier, owns a blue one; François Pinault, the French luxury goods magnate and owner of Christie’s, has the magenta version; and Dakis Joannou, the Greek industrialist, has his in red. Christie’s had estimated Mr. Brant’s sculpture would fetch $35 million to $55 million.

(Final prices include the buyer’s premium: 25 percent of the first $100,000; 20 percent of the next $100,000 to $2 million; and 12 percent of the rest. Estimates do not reflect commissions.)

Another strong price was set for a classic image in contemporary art history — Andy Warhol’s “Coca Cola [3],” one of only four paintings of a single Coca-Cola bottle that the artist made in 1961 and 1962. Jose Mugrabi, the New York dealer, bought the painting from S. I. Newhouse Jr. in 1986 and he was said to be selling it on Tuesday night. That painting made $57.2 million. It had been estimated to sell for $40 million to $60 million.

Three bidders went for Rothko’s “No. 11 (Untitled),” one of the artist’s abstract canvases, this one in an orange palette and created in 1957. It was being sold by the estate of Bruce J. Wasserstein, the financier who died in 2009. Christophe van de Weghe, a Manhattan dealer, bought the painting for $46 million, above its high $35 million estimate. Mr. van de Weghe also bought “Apocalypse Now,” a seminal painting by Mr. Wool, whose work is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Bidding on behalf of a client, he paid $26.4 million for the painting. Created in 1988, the white canvas is filled with the words “Sell the House Sell the Car Sell the Kids,” a line from the Francis Ford Coppola movie of the same title. The painting belonged to David Ganek, the former New York hedge fund manager and Guggenheim board member. Mr. Ganek has since resigned from the board.

After the sale, Jussi Pylkkänen, chairman of Christie’s Europe and the evening’s auctioneer, noted how international the bidding was. Besides a healthy showing of American bidders, there were also a lot of potential buyers from Asia and Europe trying to get into the action. “There were more players from the New World than ever before,” he said, “and more people spending over $20 million.

“But,” he warned, in order to have such a successful sale, “you have to have the material.”

A version of this article appears in print on November 13, 2013, on page A27 of the New York edition with the headline: At $142.4 Million, Triptych Is the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at an Auction.

George Lindemann Journal - "Sotheby's Strong Sale Anchored by $50 Million Giacometti Bronze" @wsj -by @KellyCrowWSJ

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After Christie's bumpy lead-in to the New York fall auctions, Sotheby's held a robust sale of Impressionist and modern art on Wednesday that could reassure collectors about the trajectory of the market overall.

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Alberto Giacometti's "Large Thin Head (Large Head of Diego)" sold for $50 million at auction in New York Wednesday. Reuters

Earlier this week, Christie's three-day series of Impressionist and modern art sales totaled $293.7 million. On Wednesday, Sotheby's got nearly that much from its evening sale alone. Its $290.2 million total represented one of the highest in the company's history, thanks to a trio of pieces that each topped $30 million.

New York dealer Bill Acquavella, who buys for American billionaires, paid $50 million for Alberto Giacometti's "Large Thin Head (Large Head of Diego)," a 2-foot-tall, spindly bronze bust of the artist's brother that was priced to sell for $35 million to $50 million. An anonymous telephone bidder also paid $39.9 million for Pablo Picasso's colorful 1935 portrait of his mistress sporting a purple beret, "Head of a Woman." That painting was only expected to sell for up to $30 million.

Picasso's cherry-red, 1969 portrait of a swashbuckling musketeer, "Musketeer with a Pipe," also sold for $30.9 million, exceeding its $18 million high estimate and resetting the high bar for a late-era work by the artist. The buyer was Monte Carlo dealer David Nahmad, whose son Helly was recently accused by federal prosecutors in Manhattan of participating in an illegal gambling ring. The Nahmads have denied any wrongdoing.

The art market is a high-stakes table all its own, and Sotheby's said collectors from 13 countries anted up on Wednesday—notably those hailing from the U.S., Switzerland and Latin America. Collectors from the last group, including Brazilians, took home Francis Picabia's $8.8 million "Volucelle II," a confection of black-and-white stripes dotted with colorful, bowling ball-shaped orbs, as well as works by Marc Chagall. Chinese collectors also underbid heavily for classic examples of Impressionists like Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet.

At least five bidders chased after Monet's shivery "Icicles," and a telephone bidder won it—after a protracted bidding war—for $16.1 million, over its $14 million high estimate.

Dealers said Sotheby's won out this week in part by offering works that hadn't been traded lately in the marketplace, which gave the works a where's-that-been freshness that collectors crave. Only a dozen of its 64 offerings had even turned up at auction in the past two decades and several of the priciest offerings, like the Giacometti bronze, were auction first-timers. After Christie's saw some of its most expensive examples by Picasso fail to find takers earlier this week, Sotheby's also had the luxury of time to go back to its sellers and adjust their reserves, or minimum asking prices, downward. Bidding for some of Sotheby's works, like a Juan Gris that sold for $8.8 million, started at $4.7 million—well below a typical starting price.

But bidders at Sotheby's also exuded more exuberance, a sign they may have simply preferred the house's offerings over its rival this time around. The telephone buyer of the Gris also picked up a $1.9 million Giorgio de Chirico, a $2.6 million Jacques Lipschitz, and a $1.4 million Auguste Rodin.

Overall, 52 of Sotheby's 64 pieces found buyers, helping the sale achieve a strong 92.3% of its potential presale value. Records were broken for artists like Picabia, Lipschitz, Jean Arp, and Gustave Courbet.

After the sale, Sotheby's specialist Simon Shaw said collectors are still willing to shop, but they no longer want to overpay. "The market sorts out what's truly great."