Phil Knight
Nike co-founder and businessman
Phil Knight is an American businessman who co-founded Nike and later led it as chairman and CEO. He wrote the memoir Shoe Dog.
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American Born 1938 in Portland, United States
About Phil Knight
Philip Hampson Knight, nicknamed Buck, was born on February 24, 1938, in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from the University of Oregon and from Stanford's business school. At Oregon he ran in the track and field club under coach Bill Bowerman, with whom he later co-founded Nike. He went on to serve as the company's chairman and CEO, and he later became its chairman emeritus. Knight also owns the stop motion film studio Laika. He has given hundreds of millions of dollars to each of his two alma maters and to Oregon Health & Science University. His memoir in our catalog is Shoe Dog.