Mark Attanasio

Mark L. Attanasio (born September 29, 1957) is an American businessman from the Bronx who is the principal owner of the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB).

He is worth an estimated $700 million.

He graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1979 and received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 1982.

Attanasio co-founded the Los Angeles investment firm Crescent Capital Group in 1991, which was later bought by Trust Company of the West in 1995.

In 2001, Attanasio joined the board of directors at the telecommunications firm Global Crossing, which filed for bankruptcy in January 2002.

He resigned his position on the board shortly thereafter.

Attanasio is a founder and senior executive with the alternative investment firm Crescent Capital Group.

In September 2004, he reached a deal, on behalf of an investment group, to purchase the Brewers from the family of MLB commissioner Bud Selig for an estimated US$223 million.

In September 2004, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Selig family announced that they had accepted Attanasio's bid to buy the team.

In 2023, the Brewers reached an agreement with Wisconsin lawmakers for taxpayers to subsidize renovations of American Family Field, the Brewers stadium, to the tune of nearly half a billion dollars.

In the lead-up to the agreement, Brewers officials threatened to leave Milwaukee unless the team received taxpayer money.

Along with Brewers assistant general manager Gord Ash and former Brewers pitcher Ben Sheets, Attanasio is also a part-owner of the American Hockey League's Milwaukee Admirals.

He was a major sponsor of the widely acclaimed Andy Warhol exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

In August 2022, it was announced that Attanasio would become a director of Norwich City Football Club, an act Attanasio said was his proudest achievement.

It was later reported that he would be purchasing an 18% stake in the club from Michael Foulger.

Mark is the brother of television writer Paul Attanasio.

He is married to Deborah (née Kaplan) and has two sons, Dan and Mike.

The deal was approved by MLB in 2005.

Attanasio was born in the Bronx, New York, and grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, where he attended high school.

His eldest son Dan and his rock band, Pan Am, performed at Summerfest 2008 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.