Principal-led investment platform
Investing where sport, media and adjacent real assets create durable enterprise value.
Three Lions Capital is a principal-led platform focused on selective opportunities across the evolving sports asset class and the sectors that move with it.
Affiliations
Across the principals' portfolio.
Publicly disclosed clubs, venues and developments connected to the principals — offered as background on their experience, not as an indication of fund performance.
Phoenix Rising FCUSL Championship · Arizona
Ipswich Town FCEnglish football · Suffolk
Rhode Island FCUSL Championship · Rhode Island
Tidewater LandingStadium district · Pawtucket
Centreville Bank StadiumVenue · PawtucketWhy Three Lions
A firm built at the intersection of capital and operating judgment.
Principal-led
Decisions sit with the partners who make them. Aligned capital, long horizons, and conviction over consensus.
Operating perspective
We have run public companies, owned clubs, and executed at scale — so we partner as operators, not only as capital.
Institutional rigor
Transactional discipline and board-level governance brought to a category often approached on instinct.
Our approach
A thesis, not a trade.
We believe the value created around modern sports — the clubs, the venues, the rights, the brands, and the real assets that anchor them — is becoming an institutional asset class. We invest at that intersection with patience and an operator's eye.
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Source
Proprietary access through ownership networks across sport, media and real assets.
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Underwrite
Disciplined diligence — cash-flow durability, governance, and downside before upside.
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Build
Value created through operations, brand, real estate and network — not financial engineering alone.
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Steward
Long-horizon ownership with clear governance and a defined path to realization.
What we focus on
Four sectors that move with the sports economy.
Sports
Club equity, rights-driven platforms, and the venues and infrastructure that anchor them.
Media & Entertainment
Content, distribution and the commercial value created around live audiences and IP.
Adjacent Real Assets
Stadium-adjacent real estate and development that compounds with the franchise it serves.
Life Sciences
Selective growth exposure where the partners' networks and judgment create an edge.
The principals
Founder-led, operator-aware, globally sports-literate.
Founder and CEO of Benevolent Capital, a private-equity and family-office platform investing across sport, real estate, consumer brands and venture. A recognized pioneer of sport as an asset class, with ownership and board roles spanning Rhode Island FC, Phoenix Rising FC and Ipswich Town FC, and stadium-anchored developments including Tidewater Landing.
- Brown University, B.A.
- Pepperdine University, MBA
- Harvard Business School, PLP
An operator-investor whose career spans fund management, public-company leadership and professional football ownership. Founder of BBS Capital Management, former President and CEO of Kona Grill, and a founding owner of Phoenix Rising FC. Combines capital-markets judgment with hands-on operating experience in consumer and sports platforms.
- Boston College, B.S. Finance
- Boston College, M.S. Finance
A capital-markets specialist with three decades in industrial real estate, formerly Head of Industrial Capital Markets for the Western U.S. at JLL and co-founder and CEO of Premier Logistics Properties. Brings transactional discipline and board-level governance to the firm, with shareholder and board roles at Ipswich Town FC and Phoenix Rising FC.
- Arizona State University, B.S.
- Board, Ipswich Town FC
- Board, Phoenix Rising FC
Selected experience
Operators, owners, and allocators.
Representative of the principals' publicly disclosed affiliations across sport and real assets. Provided as background on the team's experience — not as an indication of fund performance.
Phoenix Rising FC
Founding ownership
USL Championship club, Arizona
Ipswich Town FC
Ownership & board
English football, Suffolk
Rhode Island FC
Founding & board
USL Championship club
Tidewater Landing
Development
Stadium-anchored district, Pawtucket
A partnership of operators, owners and allocators — investing where sport creates enduring value.
Contact
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