Kenneth Jeffrey Feld

Kenneth Jeffrey Feld (born 1948 in Washington, DC) is the CEO of [http://www.feldentertainment.com/ Feld Entertainment] , which owns Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, Disney on Ice!, [http://www.doodlebops.com Doodlebops Live!] and [http://www.DisneyLive.com Disney Live!] He is also the producer of several Broadway plays. The business was started by his father Irvin Feld and Ken became CEO upon his father's death in 1984.

Biography

He graduated from the Boston University School of Management in 1970 with a Management degree (Feld is currently a member of the BU Board of Trustees). [ [http://web.bu.edu/trustees/boardoftrustees/members/index.html Members of the BU Board of Trustees] ] According to a 2004 article in Forbes Magazine, he was worth $775 million and lives in Potomac, Maryland. His mother committed suicide in 1958 so he and his sister Karen were raised by their aunt and uncle. [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/19/AR2005111901467_pf.html Send in the Clowns] ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Send In The Clowns |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/19/AR2005111901467_pf.html|quote=The tale begins on a summer day 15 years ago when CEO Kenneth Feld opened his copy of Regardie's, a slick magazine that covered the Washington business scene. He turned to Page 44 and began reading a lengthy article about himself. It was written by Pottker, a freelancer who had once interviewed him for a book about corporate heirs. Headlined "The Family Circus," the piece began flatteringly enough, portraying Feld as a hands-on executive committed to providing quality entertainment. |work=Washington Post |date= |accessdate=2008-08-04 ]

In July 2006, he was inducted into the International Circus Hall of Fame. [ [http://www.circushalloffame.com/Main.asp?SectionID=63&SubSectionID=266&ArticleID=88 Circus Hall of Fame Inductees] ]

Clair George has testified in court that he worked as a consultant in the early 1990s for Kenneth Feld and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus where he was involved in the surveillance of Janice Pottker, a journalist who was writing about the Feld family, and of various animal rights groups such as PETA. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Greatest Vendetta on Earth |url=http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/08/30/circus/index.html |quote=On a gloomy Veterans Day in 1998, Janice Pottker answered an unexpected knock on the door of her home in Potomac, Md., a woodsy, upscale suburb of Washington. Standing there was a man she'd never seen before, a private detective who introduced himself as Tim Tieff. He told Pottker, a freelance writer married to a senior government official, that he had a discreet message from Charles F. Smith, a former top executive with Feld Entertainment, owner of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey Circuses, Disney Shows on Ice, and other subsidiaries that make it the largest live entertainment company in the world. |work=Salon.com |date=August 30, 2001 |accessdate=2008-08-04 ]

As of February 2007, Kenneth Feld will be producing the new ice show, "High School Musical On Ice", based on the hit Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel Original Movie, "High School Musical". [ [http://disneyonice.disney.go.com/disneyonice/location.jsp?market=0 Disney On Ice: United States Tour Dates] ]

External links

* [http://www.ringling.com/explore/history/feld_1.aspx Ringling Brothers Feld Stewardship]
* [http://www.kevo.com/profile/kennethfeld Kenneth Feld's Kevo]

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