Wycliffe Grousbeck

Wycliffe "Wyc" Grousbeck is CEO, Governor, and co-owner of the National Basketball Association basketball team the Boston Celtics. Grousbeck, after spending 7 years as a partner at a venture capital firm, Highland Capital Partners, put together and led the group Basketball Partners LLC (along with his father H. Irving Grousbeck, Adam Kelcourse and Stephen Pagliuca) that bought the Celtics in 2002 for $360 million. Grousbeck graduated from Noble a... more
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