Sam Zell

Sam Zell ( born September 28, 1941) is an American businessman and billionaire.

Cell is co-founder and chairman of the US-based investment firm Equity Group Investments. After the U.S. magazine Forbes list cell is performed on 52 out of the wealthiest Americans with a personal fortune of around $ 6 billion. Zell was born in 1941 in Chicago the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. The father of the cell changed the family name from Zielonka in cell shortly after the family had moved from Seattle to Chicago. Cell reached a B. A. 1963 at the University of Michigan. In 1966 he succeeded in J. D. at the University of Michigan Law School. Together with Robert Lurie he founded after his university days, the company Equity Group Investments, LLC, the three subsidiaries Equity Residential (large owners of apartments in the United States), Equity Office Properties (large owners of offices in the United States) and manufactured home communites controlled. Furthermore, cell founded a number of other companies. So he checked the company SZ Investments LLC.

Zell is also the chairman of Capital Trust and Anixter International.

On 2 April 2007 Zell bought by the U.S. media company Tribune Company newspapers Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other media as well as the baseball team Chicago Cubs. and gained control of the Tribune Company in August 2007.