Jeff Mallett

Jeffrey Mallett (born August 7, 1964) is a Canadian entrepreneur and investor.

He is best known for building internet giant Yahoo!.

Described as Yahoo's "wizard behind the curtains pulling all the levers," Mallett manages a portfolio of Internet, sports, entertainment and real estate investments in the United States, Canada, England, and China.

The San Jose Giants are a member of the Class A Advanced California League and part of the San Francisco team's minor-league farm system since 1988.

Mallett is recognized as an icon of the Internet technology boom that lit up stock markets from the mid-to-late 1990s.

In 1995, Yahoo!

founder Jerry Yang offered North Vancouver-born Mallett the job of president and COO at Yang's 11-employee startup.

As president and chief operating officer for Yahoo Inc. from 1995–2002, Mallett helped drive growth and success for the company while simultaneously serving as an elected member of the Board of Directors.

Mallett is a principal owner and executive committee member of Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants, a role which includes ownership and management of the AT&T Park and 30% ownership of the San Francisco Bay Area's regional sports cable television network Comcast SportsNet Bay Area.

Mallett helped the company go public in 1996, and during his seven-year tenure, helped build Yahoo into an entertainment and media brands.

Purchased in 1999 by the Mallett family, Vineyard Knolls Golf Club of Napa was Napa's first municipal golf course and was called Little Knolls.

Formed in 2001, given U.S. charitable status in 2004, and Canadian charitable status in 2007, the Steve Nash Foundation is a private foundation dedicated to assisting underserved children in their health, personal development, education and enjoyment of life.

By 2002, Mallett managed a workforce of 4,000 employees in 27 countries, with $1 billion in revenue, and had overseen more than 20 acquisitions for the company.

Mallett joined the San Francisco Giants organization in 2002.

They started the company because of their own struggle to find a reasonably priced made-to-measure suit, launching the website in 2007.

BusinessWeek featured Indochino in their series, America's Most Promising Startups, with the article "This Business Suits the Internet".

Since September 2007, he has been a member of the board of directors of Synacor, a provider of private label digital Internet services to North American cable and telecom companies.

Mallett is an advisor to Steve Nash Enterprises, a portfolio of a dozen ventures which includes Nash's foundation, The Steve Nash Foundation.

On October 15, 2008, the Whitecaps submitted a bid to secure one of two MLS expansion teams for the 2011 season, having announced their bidding plans at a press conference in Vancouver on July 25, 2008.

In early 2008, along with close friend NBA MVP Steve Nash, Mallett became investor and part owner of the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league.

While Nash and Mallett will not operate a team, their investment will fund the ongoing development of WPS.

Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) is the premier women's soccer league in the world.

In April 2009, the San Francisco Giants purchased a 25 percent ownership stake in the San Jose Giants, with the option of buying another 30 percent of the team, or a controlling interest, by the end of 2010.

On March 20, 2009 he became a principal investor of Derby County Football Club, which plays in the English League Championship.

Mallett travels to England frequently as a member of the Derby County Football Club Board of Directors.

Mallett is an investor and co-director of the Vancouver Whitecaps.

The Vancouver Whitecaps ownership group consists of Mallett, Greg Kerfoot, Steve Luczo and Steve Nash.

On March 18, 2009, Major League Soccer (MLS) commissioner Don Garber announced that Vancouver would be the home of the 17th team in MLS.

The venue will undergo approximately $458 million in improvements before the new team takes to the field, and will have a 20,000-seat soccer-specific configuration.[ ] The 2009 Vancouver Whitecaps season went down as one of the most eventful campaigns in club history.

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The inaugural season kicked off in March 2009 with seven WPS teams based in the Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Jersey/New York, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. The league's eighth and nine franchises, Philadelphia and Atlanta, began play in the 2010 WPS Season, which began March 2010.

Mallett is former Chairman and an investor of Indochino, which claims to be the world's largest online retailer of custom suits, with a head office in Vancouver, British Columbia and second office in Shanghai, China.

It was founded by CEO Kyle Vucko, 22, and 26-year-old Heikal Gani – both students at the University of Victoria when they started the company.

Indochino has customers in 60 countries and sales nearly quintupled in 2009, with 35% of orders coming from repeat customers.

The MLS team will begin play in 2011 at the temporary Empire Field, and then move during that season to the newly renovated BC Place Stadium in the city's downtown entertainment district.

Nash has started a film-production company; become a part owner of the Vancouver Whitecaps, which will join Major League Soccer in 2011; and taken equity in several startups, including Mission Skincare, which develops products for athletes.

Part of the revenue will go to his foundation.

Mallett is the owner of Napa Valley's Vineyard Knolls Golf Club of Napa.

The company has plans to open an additional 20 locations in 2019.

Mallett is a board member of Buffalo, New York-based technology firm Synacor.