Who owns the Seattle Seahawks? Meet Jody Allen, the woman carrying on her late brother’s legacy
this seattle seahawks will return to super bowl It has been 11 years since they were last seen together. The last game was also against new england patriots Tom Brady wins his fourth Super Bowl ring.
During this time, the Seahawks’ majority owner was Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. He bought the team from Ken Behring in 1997 for $200 million. However, Allen passed away in 2018.
Who owns the Seattle Seahawks now?
After Paul died from complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his sister Jodi Allen was named executor and trustee of his estate. According to the American Sun, after Allen’s death, ownership of the Seahawks was transferred to the Paul G. Allen Trust, of which Jodi is a trustee.
Jody thus became president of the Seahawks and continued her brother’s legacy.
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Jody is also Chairman of Vale Group, which she co-founded with Paul in 1986.
The Seahawks’ website states: “They have worked side by side for decades on a range of business and philanthropic endeavors. She led the development of Lumen Field and the Lumen Field Events Center, as well as the Moda Center, home of the Portland Trail Blazers, of which she is also president.”
Jody is also co-founder, chairman and president of the Allen Family Philanthropies, and founding director of MoPOP, Seattle’s renowned pop culture museum.
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The website says she is also “co-founder and board chair of the Allen Institute, dedicated to solving some of the biggest mysteries in biological sciences; board chair of the Science and Technology Foundation, which focuses on bioscience, the environment, and artificial intelligence for good, and a board member of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2).” It adds that Jody, as a trustee of the Paul G. Allen Trust, is “committed to ensuring that Paul’s vision lives on for generations to come.”
This year’s Super Bowl is scheduled to begin on Sunday, February 8 at 6:30 pm ET. The game will be played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
