Malin Burnham

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Malin Burnham
BornNovember 12, 1927
San Diego, California
NationalityAmerican
Occupationsailor, real estate developer, philanthropist

Malin Burnham (born November 12, 1927, in San Diego, California[1]) is an American sailor, real estate developer and philanthropist.

Sailing[]

At the age of 17, he won the Star World Championships in 1944 (crewing for Gerald Driscoll) and 1945 (together with Lowell North). He was involved in Dennis Conner's 1987 and 1988 Stars & Stripes America's Cup campaigns and named to the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 2002.[2][3] Burnham was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2016.[4]

Career[]

Burnham has a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.[3] He has been an active real estate developer in the San Diego area since the 1940s; his family owns real estate brokerage firm, Burnham Real Estate Services, was founded in 1891 and was acquired by Cushman & Wakefield in 2008.[5]

Philanthropy[]

He is also known for his extensive charitable activities in San Diego. The Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute is partially named in his honor for his gift in 1996.

Beginning in 2014 he led a group of San Diegans seeking to acquire the U-T San Diego newspaper from Doug Manchester and run it as a nonprofit entity.[6][7]

He is a board member to , called by Reuters as the Nobel Prize for Sustainability.

References[]

  1. ^ "PH1412 People". sdyc.org. San Diego Yacht Club. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Herreshoff Marine Museum & America's Cup Hall of Fame". www.herreshoff.org. Archived from the original on 19 December 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Biography - Malin Burnham, Emeritus - School of Business - University of San Diego". www.sandiego.edu. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Malin Burnham 2016 Inductee". Nshof.org. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  5. ^ Mike Freeman, "N.Y. firm is buying Burnham brokers", U-T San Diego, December 18, 2007.
  6. ^ Fred Dickey, "Philanthropist's vision for buying U-T: Malin Burnham has big plan, 4 partners in bid for San Diego's largest news source." U-T San Diego, October 13, 2014.
  7. ^ Frank Gormlie, "What Does Malin Burnham’s Possible Take-Over of the U-T San Diego Mean?", San Diego Free Press, October 23, 2014, and "Malin Burnham and the U-T San Diego Idea Factory", San Diego Free Press, October 23, 2014.

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