Timothy Boyle
Portland, Oregon
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Oregon
United States
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Columbia Sportswear, Self Made
$2,800,000,000
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#775 Billionaires 2019
#328 Forbes 400 2018
Timothy Boyle dropped out of the University of Oregon in 1970 to help his mother rescue their fledgling family company, Columbia Sportswear. The family business started as Columbia Hat Company in Portland, founded in 1938 by Boyle's grandparents, who had fled Nazi Germany for the U.S.Columbia Sportswear's sales increased 16 percent in the first half of 2018 to a record $1.1 billion. Columbia Sportswear also owns Prana and Sorel brands.Boyle sits on the board of Craft Brew Alliance, which makes Redhook Ale.
When Boyle's father died in 1970, his mother Gert Boyle, then a 46-year-old housewife with three kids, took charge of the family business.Now chairman of the company, Gert Boyle is the author of the book One Tough Mother.
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