Steven Price (born 1962) is an American businessman serving as executive chairman of

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, and minority owner of the

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.The Ledger Enquirer: "Meet the Hawks' new owners" by Tim Tucker
June 27, 2015

Biography

Price was born to a

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family, the son of Margery and Robert Price.New York Times: "Tina Gitlin Wed To Steven Price"
March 17, 1991 His father was the president of the Price Communications Corporation, a publishing and broadcasting company based in New York City. Price graduated from

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude and then attended

Columbia University School of Law Columbia Law School (CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City. The school was founded in 1858 as the Columbia College Law School. The university is known for its legal scholarship dating ba ...

. After school, he practiced law at Davis Polk & Wardwell, worked as an investment banker at

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, served as deputy assistant Secretary of Defense, and worked at two private equity firms before co-founding

and 25madison. Townsquare Media owns and operates 360 radio stations in small to mid-sized markets throughout the USA. In 2014, he bought a stake in the Atlanta Hawks from Bruce Levenson. He maintained his share after the team was purchased by a group in 2015 led by

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along with

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, Sarah Blakely,

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, and Rick Schnall for $850 million.Atlanta Hawks Selling for $850 Million
The Wall Street Journal. Ben Cohen. April 22, 2015. accessed February 9, 2016

Philanthropy

Price directs his charitable activities through the Tina & Steven Price Charitable Foundation.
retrieved November 4, 2017 The fund is active in the New York area Jewish community and has provided funding for the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, the

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, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and the

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. Price serves on the boards of the UJA Federation and

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Personal life

In 1991, he married Tina Gitlin in a

ceremony at the Park Avenue Synagogue.

References

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