Vice Chairman
Mr. Ginsberg became Vice Chairman of the Red Sox upon the club's acquisition on February 27, 2002. Since 2002, he has also been Vice Chairman of Fenway Sports Group (FSG), the holding company that owns the Red Sox, New England Sports Network (NESN), Fenway Sports Management (FSM), and the Liverpool Football Club (LFC), is a partner in Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing (RFK), and owns a controlling interest in the Pittsburgh Penguins.
In addition, Mr. Ginsberg is Vice Chairman of LFC and is a partner in FSG. Since the inception of FSG, he has provided advice and assistance to the holding company and its principals on business, financial and commercial and investment banking issues, including actively working on capital events and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Ginsberg is primarily responsible for arranging, structuring and negotiating FSG's and its subsidiaries' credit facilities. He played an integral role in the analysis, financing, negotiation, and execution of the acquisitions of the Red Sox, NESN, LFC, RFR and the Penguins. Additionally, he played an integral role in negotiating and executing John Henry's sale of the Florida Marlins in 2002 and the Redbird Capital Partners' investment into FSG in 2021. He had previously been Vice Chairman of the Marlins starting in 1999.
Mr. Ginsberg is also a member of the Overseers Board of the Red Sox Foundation/Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program, which is dedicated to improving the lives of veterans who suffer from deployment related stress (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury.
Following FSG's acquisition of LFC at the end of 2010, Mr. Ginsberg became Vice Chairman of LFC and joined FSG on a full time basis through 2014. He was primarily responsible for the close oversight of LFC's business and financial activities. Ginsberg was also primarily responsible for arranging FSG's and its subsidiaries' credit facilities and overseeing interest rate strategy, interactions with lenders, and merger and acquisition activities, and was the point-person primarily responsible for coordinating FSG's real estate strategy and transactions. Ginsberg was also a member of the Board of Directors of Roush Fenway Racing.
In October 2015 Mr. Ginsberg had rejoined Raptor Group, heading up the proposed project to build a new football stadium in Rome for AS Roma until December 2018. He was a Managing Director and a Founding Partner of Raptor Group from 2009-10, an investment management company. From 2006-08 he was the Managing Director of the Special Opportunities Group at Tudor Investment Corp. Ginsberg served as the Special Advisor to the Chairman and as a Director at John W. Henry & Company (JWH) beginning in 1999 until June 2002. Prior to the Marlins and JWH, Mr. Ginsberg was a private investor and consultant. At Global Asset Management (GAM) in London, he started and served as the Managing Director of the Multi-Manager Group, from its inception in 1989 until 1995. This Group was one of the largest fund of hedge funds groups globally during that period. Prior to joining GAM, he was Vice President in charge of the Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory Group at the National Westminster Bank USA, where he began his career as a corporate lender in 1981.
A native of Winthrop, MA, Ginsberg graduated from the Northfield Mount Hermon School and received a BA from Kenyon College. He received an MBA, with a concentration in finance, from the Boston University Graduate School of Management.