Gordon Gund

Gordon Gund was formerly the principal owner of the NBA franchise the Cleveland Cavaliers, a co-owner of the San Jose Sharks NHL team, and remains the CEO of Gund Investment Corporation and a minority owner of the Cavaliers. He was born October 15, 1939, and is a native of Cleveland. He gradually began going blind in the 1960s because of the disease retinitis pigmentosa. By 1970, Gund was totally blind.

Gund and his brother, George, bought the Cleveland Cavaliers from infamous NBA owner Ted Stepien in 1983, in order to keep the team in Cleveland and at The Coliseum. Gund has never been able to see a basketball game in all the years he has been a Cavaliers owner.

Under Gund's ownership, attendance figures started to rise. In the 1994-1995 season, Gund Arena was built and replaced The Coliseum, and attendance figures stayed high. According to the Cavaliers' media guide, the Cavs had the highest attendance figures in franchise history in 15 of the last 16 seasons, heading into the 2004-2005 season. In 2005, Gund sold controlling interest of the team to real estate magnate Dan Gilbert, maintaining a minority ownership stake for himself.

Gund is the former President of the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts. He went to college at Harvard and has honorary doctorates from Gothenburg University in Sweden, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Whittier College and the University of Vermont. He serves as director of the Kellogg Company of Battle Creek, Michigan, and of Corning Incorporated in Corning, New York.

Gund and his wife, Llura, reside in Princeton, New Jersey. They have two children.