{"id":330,"date":"2015-02-11T19:01:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T19:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=330"},"modified":"2015-02-11T19:01:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T19:01:52","slug":"private-equity-investor-j-christopher-flowers-joins-kasparov-chess-foundation-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Private Equity Investor, J. Christopher Flowers Joins Kasparov Chess Foundation Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>New York, NY, Feb. 11, 2015 \u2013 <\/b>The Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) held its annual board meeting on Friday, February 6<sup>th<\/sup>, in New York City.\u00a0 KCF\u2019s Chairman and former World Champion, Garry Kasparov, welcomed J. Christopher Flowers to join the board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Flowers is an American private equity investor and investment manager focused on the financial services industry. He is the chairman of J. C. Flowers &amp; Co.\u00a0 A graduate of Harvard University, Mr. Flowers worked at Goldman Sachs for 19 years and was named partner in 1988.\u00a0 Mr. Flowers founded J.C. Flowers &amp; Co. in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>According to KCF\u2019s President, Michael Khodarkovsky, the Foundation is delighted to have such an esteemed executive to be part of the Board.\u00a0 \u201cWe believe that Mr. Flowers will be a tremendous asset in furthering the Foundation\u2019s mission to spread chess programs throughout the U.S. and the world,\u201d added M. Khodarkovsky.<\/p>\n<p><b>About Kasparov Chess Foundation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Founded by World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, KCF\u2019s mission is to bring the many educational benefits of chess to children worldwide by providing a complete chess curriculum and enrichment programs. The Foundation promotes the study of chess as a cognitive learning tool in curricular classes and after-school programs for elementary, middle and high schools, both in the public and private school sectors. The not-for-profit Foundation also organizes regional, national, and worldwide tournaments, programs for talented students, and promotional chess events. \u00a0For more information, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/\">https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">#\u00a0 #\u00a0 #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY, Feb. 11, 2015 \u2013 The Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) held its annual board meeting on Friday, February 6th, in New York City.\u00a0 KCF\u2019s Chairman and former World Champion, Garry Kasparov, welcomed J. Christopher Flowers to join the board of directors. Mr. Flowers is an American private equity investor and investment manager focused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}