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Billionaire CEO Calvin Ayre Announces Retirement
Billionaire CEO Calvin Ayre Announces Retirement
Posted on April 21, 2008
The fun loving, billionaire chief of Bodog has announced his retirement from the company. Additionally he will no longer be involved in Bodog operationally. In mid 2007 he successfully transferred ownership of the Bodog brand in North America to the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group.Ayre will be taking some time to himself in his home in Antigua and will continue to support charitable opportunities through the Calvin Ayre Foundation.
Ayre noted that, "While it has been great fun to live my life in front of the world's cameras and online though my blog, I am looking forward to a more private and meaningful period of giving back and working to support the Calvin Ayre Foundation."
Calvin Ayre has been chronicled on countless TV shows, gossip magazines, you name it - for being one of the coolest CEO's out there.
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