Clark Hunt

Clark Hunt, after graduating first in his class at Southern Methodist University in 1987 with a degree in Business Administration and a concentration in finance, where he also served as a four-year letterman and captain of the nationally ranked soccer team, embarked on a distinguished career in professional sports leadership. He began his professional life with two years as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs before transitioning into the National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS). Named Chairman of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2005, Hunt was recognized by his alma mater with the SMU Cox School of Business Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2004, the SMU Cox School of Business Distinguished Alumni Award in 2018, and the prestigious SMU Distinguished Alumni Award in 2020. Hunt’s leadership has been instrumental in the transformation of the Kansas City Chiefs into one of the most successful NFL franchises.

As a founding investor-operator and Chairman and CEO of FC Dallas, and former owner of the Kansas City Wizards and Columbus Crew, Hunt remains active on the MLS Board of Governors, co-chairing the Product Strategy Committee and serving on the Labor Committee. In the NFL, he chairs the influential NFL Finance Committee (since 2019) and is a member of the Personal Conduct Committee, the Management Council Executive Committee (CEC), and the Commissioner’s Special Committee on Ownership Policy, having been instrumental in securing the NFL’s collective bargaining agreements in 2011 and 2020. His impactful career was further recognized in 2022 when he was enshrined in the Dallas Business Hall of Fame.