Arthur Griffiths

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Arthur Griffiths was the owner of the NHL's Vancouver Canucks from 1988 until selling the team in 1997 to Seattle-based billionaire John McCaw, Jr.. He took over the Canucks from his father, Frank Griffiths.

[edit] GM Place

It was Griffiths who lead the initiative to build GM Place. The original arena of the Canucks, the Pacific Coliseum, was owned the the Pacific National Exhibition, and there was issues regarding revenue from the luxury suites. As a result, Griffiths financed the building of GM Place in 1995. In order to keep up revenue, he also brought about the formation of the NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies.^[1]

[edit] 2010 Olympics

The first proposal of getting the 2010 Winter Olympics to Vancouver was done by Arthur Griffiths in February 1998.^[2] He would help it to become the Canadian bid for the Olympics, seeing it through to being awarded in 2003.^[3]

On February 9, 2005, Infotec Business Systems named Griffiths its President and CEO, a company that was controlled by Edward Clunn, an investor who had been banned for 20 years from trading in British Columbia.^[4]

Griffiths graduated from BCIT in 1980 and soon joined his father in managing the Canucks.

He is married and has five children.

[edit] References

1. ^ Infotec, Infotec Business Systems
2. ^ Reception in honour of Canada being awarded the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Office of the Lieutenant-Governor of BC
3. ^ VANCOUVER 2010 - ORIGINS, HISTORY AND OUR FUTURE, Tourism Vancouver
4. ^ Baines, David (March 29, 2006). Griffiths lines up with banned stock offender. The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved on January 26, 2007.