<Tr> <Th> Profession </Th> <Td> Businessman, Investor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Net worth </Th> <Td> US $2.2 billion (February 2016) </Td> </Tr> <P> John William Henry II (born September 13, 1949) is an American businessman and investor and the founder of John W. Henry & Company, an investment management firm . He is the principal owner of The Boston Globe, the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club and co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing . In March 2006, Boston Magazine estimated Henry's net worth at $1.1 billion but noted that his company had recently experienced difficulties . In November 2012, the company announced that it would stop managing clients' money by the end of the year, and Henry confirmed that total assets under the firm's management had fallen from $2.5 billion in 2006 to less than $100 million as of late 2012 . As of July 2017, Forbes estimated his net worth to be $2.6 billion . </P> <P> John William Henry II was born on September 13, 1949 in Quincy, Illinois . His parents were soybean farmers, and he split his time growing up between Illinois and Arkansas . His asthmatic condition at the age of 15 prompted his family to move to Apple Valley, California . After his graduation from Victor Valley High School in Victorville, he attended Victor Valley College, then the University of California (at Riverside, Irvine, and Los Angeles), where he majored in philosophy but did not graduate--partly the result of performing on the road in two rock and roll bands, Elysian Fields and Hillary . </P>

Owner of the boston red sox baseball team