NEW YORK, April 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- OppenheimerFunds today announced a new brand partnership
with baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken
Jr. and renowned chef Daniel Boulud, who will
join the global asset manager's exclusive client events focused on
the firm's core investment principles of looking to the long term,
making global connections, taking intelligent risks and investing
with proven teams.
"OppenheimerFunds strives to serve our clients with trusted,
long-term, active management and unconventional insights.
Cal Ripken and Daniel Boulud are
both highly respected for exceptional achievements over the course
of their successful careers, and we are excited to partner with
these inspiring leaders," said Art
Steinmetz, Chairman, CEO and President of OppenheimerFunds.
"Cal and Daniel's track records of consistent standout performance
resonate with our clients, from institutions and high net worth
managers to financial advisors serving individual investors."
Select client events will feature OppenheimerFunds' investment
perspectives as well as Ripken's or Boulud's insight on current
developments in their respective businesses and highlights from
their stellar professional journeys.
"I am very excited to be entering into this partnership with
OppenheimerFunds. Not only are they an incredibly strong brand
and leaders in their field but their optimistic view and forward
thinking strategy for growth are traits that resonate with me. As I
get to know both the OppenheimerFunds leadership and Chef Boulud, I
am confident and hopeful that this is a relationship that will grow
and be long-term. After my baseball career, I embarked on a
business life and the work that OppenheimerFunds does for its
clients is something I appreciate and value now more than ever,"
said Ripken.
"OppenheimerFunds was a natural fit for me and for my
restaurants because we share many core principles. We both
strive for excellence, we take intelligent risks, we focus on
long-term growth and success and aim to bring value to our clients
– all while keeping our eyes open to the changing world around us
and finding creative solutions," said Boulud. "I look forward to
having the opportunity to work closely with their team and to share
my own insights learned from over 30 years as a chef and
restaurateur."
Cal Ripken is baseball's
all-time Iron Man. He retired from baseball in 2001 after 21
seasons with the Baltimore Orioles. His name appears in the record
books repeatedly, most notably as one of only eight players in
history to achieve 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. In 2007, he was
inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He received the
third-highest percentage of votes in history and collected the
highest vote total ever. In 1995, Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's Major League record for consecutive
games played (2,130), and in 1996, he surpassed Japanese great
Sachio Kinugasa's streak of 2,215 straight games and voluntarily
ended his streak on Sept. 20, 1998,
after playing 2,632 consecutive games. Although he began and
finished his career at third base, Ripken is best known for
redefining the position of shortstop.
In the fall of 2007, Ripken was named as a Special Public
Diplomacy Envoy to the U.S. State Department. In that role, he
travels the globe and uses baseball as a tool to spread goodwill.
In October 2007, he traveled to
China with former teammate
B.J. Surhoff and in November 2008, he visited Nicaragua with former teammate and Nicaraguan
native Dennis Martinez. His most
recent trip came in November 2011,
when he and former teammate Brady
Anderson visited Japan and
spent time with the children affected by the great earthquake and
tsunami that devastated much of Japan in March
2011.
Due to the success of his Aberdeen youth complex as a tournament
destination and the desire to grow the game of baseball worldwide,
Ripken opened the Ripken Experience complex in Myrtle Beach, S.C. This complex hosts youth
baseball tournaments with teams across the United States. Today, Ripken is working to
replicate the proven Ripken Experience model in other markets
across the country, including its latest complex in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., set to open in spring
2016.
Ripken is also a best-selling author and a highly sought-after
public speaker. His books, which have all landed on best-seller
lists, include: "The Only Way I Know," "Play Baseball The Ripken
Way," "Parenting Young Athletes The Ripken Way," "The Longest
Season" and "Get In The Game: 8 Elements of Perseverance That Make
The Difference." In the spring of 2011, he launched a series of
youth novels with a baseball theme through Disney Book Group. The
fifth in the series was released in March
2014. He is also a spokesman for several brands including
Under Armour, Rawlings, NewDay USA, Transitions Optical, Northern Safety and
Kellogg's. Ripken is also a regular-season and post-season baseball
broadcaster for TBS.
Daniel Boulud is Chef-Owner of several award-winning
restaurants and the Feast & Fetes catering company. While he
hails from Lyon, France, it is in
New York that he has truly
mastered the dining scene and is today considered one of America's
leading culinary authorities. Raised on his family's farm in the
village of St Pierre de Chandieu,
the chef remains inspired by the rhythm of the seasons and menus
driven by fine ingredients. Since arriving in the United States in 1982, Boulud has become
renowned for the contemporary appeal he adds to soulful cooking
rooted in French tradition.
His New York City restaurants
include his flagship DANIEL, a Michelin-starred Relais &
Chateaux member; the elegant Michelin-starred Cafe Boulud with its
adjacent Bar Pleiades; the casual db bistro moderne; three adjacent
Upper West Side locations including the charcuterie-centric Bar
Boulud, Mediterranean-themed Boulud Sud and eat-in and take-out
market and cafe Epicerie Boulud; and DBGB Kitchen and Bar on the
Bowery, the Chef's relaxed downtown restaurant where the French
brasserie meets the American Tavern.
Beyond Manhattan, the chef has
created Cafe Boulud in Palm Beach
and db bistro moderne in downtown Miami,
Fla. The chef has extended his culinary reach
internationally with a db bistro moderne at Singapore's Marina Bay
Sands. Bar Boulud, his first restaurant in the United Kingdom opened in London's Mandarin Oriental in May 2010. In 2012, two new partnerships were
forged with legendary names in hospitality, when Boulud and his
restaurant management team opened a Cafe Boulud in Toronto's Four Seasons hotel and a Maison
Boulud in Montreal's Ritz-Carlton.
Additionally, he returned to Las
Vegas in partnership with The Venetian® Las Vegas in spring 2014. In September 2014, he opened a DBGB Kitchen and Bar
in Washington D.C.'s CityCenterDC
and a Bar Boulud in Boston's
Mandarin Oriental.
Boulud's culinary accolades include James Beard Foundation
awards for Outstanding Restaurant, Outstanding Restaurateur, Best
Chef, New York City and
Outstanding Chef of the Year. In addition, he has been named Chef
of the Year by the Culinary Institute of
America and Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur by the French
government. Restaurant DANIEL has been cited as "one of 10 best
restaurants in the world" by the International Herald Tribune, has
earned multiple Michelin stars and Wine Spectator's "Grand Award."
The Chef's culinary style is reflected in his nine cookbooks,
including his most recent books "DANIEL: My French Cuisine" and
"My Best: Daniel Boulud."
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