Career
Boehly started his career working at Citibank, Credit Suisse First Boston, and J.H. Whitney & Company. In 2001, he started working at Guggenheim Partners with billionaire Mark Walter. Boehly helped to grow the company and became its president in 2010.
In 2015, Boehly made his own company, Eldridge Industries. He bought some companies from Guggenheim Partners, like Security Benefit Life Insurance, The Hollywood Reporter, and Dick Clark Productions. Eldridge Industries has a main office in Miami and other offices in New York City, Greenwich, Connecticut, London, Beverly Hills, Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Chicago, and Dallas.
Boehly helped to found multiple companies, including Cain, a real estate company co-owned by Eldridge Industries. His company Eldridge Industries owns and invests in many other companies for technology, entertainment, sports, and consumer goods. Boehly invested in the artificial intelligence company Metropolis Technologies, which is also the largest parking company in North America.
In 2025, he founded a new company called Eldridge, which had $70 billion in assets. The company is owned by Eldridge Industries and Boehly is its chairman.
Magazines like Forbes, Bloomberg, and the Los Angeles Times have said that Boehly is one of the most important businesspeople in the world. He is a billionaire, with a net worth of $9.3 billion in 2026.
Boehly is a part of the board of directors for other companies, like Cain, Kennedy Wilson, PayActiv, Vivid Seats and CAIS.
Sports
Boehly owns 20% of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. He and Mark Walter own 27% of the Los Angeles Lakers. The Dodgers won the 2020 World Series and 2024 World Series after Boehly became part owner, and more people have watched the game. He also owns part of the Los Angeles Sparks women's basketball team. He is an owner of Cloud9, an esports organization.
In 2022, Boehly was part of a group of people and businesses that bought the Premier League football club Chelsea. He is Chelsea's chairman, and was its interim sporting director from 2022 until 2023. In 2025, Chelsea won the FIFA Club World Cup.
In 2023, he bought a majority stake in French Ligue 1 football club Strasbourg.
Film and music
In 2020, Boehly founded a joint venture with Penske Media Corporation. The combined companies owned the magazines Billboard, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Music Business Worldwide. They also own festivals like South by Southwest.
Eldridge Industries founded a joint venture with Penske named Penske Media Eldridge in 2023. It owns companies like South by Southwest, Life Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival and Dick Clark Productions.
Boehly is the biggest investor in Larry Jackson's music company Gamma.
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
In 2021, he became the interim CEO of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the organization that awards the Golden Globe Awards. In 2022, Eldridge Industries bought the HFPA, and announced plans to split it into a private company and a nonprofit organization. Dick Clark Productions bought the Golden Globe Awards and Boehly helped to found the charitable Golden Globe Foundation. With Boehly as CEO, the HFPA was changed to add more voting members, including members from diverse backgrounds.
The Golden Globes Awards was broadcast on television in 2023, coming back from a hiatus. The show has earned its highest ratings in years since being managed by Eldridge.
