Timothy Boyle Biography | Who is Timothy Boyle?
Timothy Boyle is an American billionaire and the president and CEO of Columbia Sportswear. Boyle is one of three children born to Joseph Cornelius “Neal” Boyle, an Irish Catholic and Gertrude Lamfrom.
His mother was Jewish and fled as a teenager from Nazi Germany. She immigrated to Portland, Oregon, and converted to Catholicism after marrying her husband. He has two sisters: Kathy Boyle (born 1952) and Sally Boyle (born 1958).
His grandfather purchased the Rosenfeld Hat Company and changed its name to the Columbia Hat Company (after the river). His father became president of Columbia Hat after his grandfather died and then diversified the hat business into outerwear for hunters, fishermen, and skiers.
In 1960, his mother designed the first fishing vest (his father was an avid fisherman) and the name of the company was changed to Columbia Sportswear.
Boyle was educated at Jesuit High School, in Beaverton, Oregon, just outside Portland, followed by the University of Oregon, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1971.
Timothy Boyle Age | How Old is Timothy Boyle?
Timothy Boyle is an American billionaire and the president and CEO of Columbia Sportswear. Timothy Boyle was born in 1947, he is 70 years old as of the year.
Timothy Boyle Early life, Siblings
Boyle is one of three children born to Joseph Cornelius “Neal” Boyle, an Irish Catholic and Gertrude Lamfrom. His mother was Jewish and fled as a teenager from Nazi Germany.
She immigrated to Portland, Oregon, and converted to Catholicism after marrying her husband. He has two sisters: Kathy Boyle (born 1952) and Sally Boyle (born 1958).
His grandfather purchased the Rosenfeld Hat Company and changed its name to the Columbia Hat Company (after the river).
His father became president of Columbia Hat after his grandfather died and then diversified the hat business into outerwear for hunters, fishermen, and skiers. In 1960, his mother designed the first fishing vest (his father was an avid fisherman) and the name of the company was changed to Columbia Sportswear.
Boyle was educated at Jesuit High School, in Beaverton, Oregon, just outside Portland, followed by the University of Oregon, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1971.
Timothy Boyle Height And Weight | How Tall is Timothy Boyle?
Timothy Boyle is an American billionaire and the president and CEO of Columbia Sportswear. Boyle has a height of 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)tall while her weight is around 80 kg
Timothy Boyle Career
Boyle was still at university when his father died in 1970 at the age of 47. He left to join his mother, who had become president of Columbia, which was then earning $800,000 in annual sales.
The company struggled and teetered on bankruptcy until in the 1970s when Boyle and his mother refocused the business on outdoor clothing and casual wear which paralleled a general trend away from formal work attire. In 1975, they were the first company to introduce Gore-Tex parkas.
In 1986, Columbia released the Bugaboo, a jacket with a zip-out lining which became quite trendy and further propelled the company’s growth. Columbia was unique among specialty clothing manufacturers in that it would sell its products to any retail shop or chain.
In 1987, Columbia had $18.8 million in sales and by 1997 it had grown to $353.5 million. The company went public in 1998.
In the early 2010s, Boyle refocused Columbia away from top-line products and more towards the mid-range, moderately priced products; he also continued to align sales with changes happening in the retail industry, shifting the company more toward the internet sales.
Boyle’s 41% ownership interest in Columbia Sportswear was worth over $1.0 billion in 2013.
Timothy Boyle Net Worth And Salary | How Old is Timothy Boyle?
Timothy Boyle is an American billionaire and the president and CEO of Columbia Sportswear. Boyle and his wife Mary have a son, educated at Drake University in Des Moines, and a daughter, educated at the University of Washington.
In 2007, he and his wife Mary donated $5 million to the University of Oregon. In 2016, he donated $10 million to the University’s aquatic animal care facility. Timothy Boyle has an estimated net worth of 2.6 billion USD as of 2019
Timothy Boyle Wife, Daughter, Family | Who is Timothy Boyle Married to?
Timothy Boyle is an American billionaire and the president and CEO of Columbia Sportswear. He is a married man, he is married to wife Mary.
Boyle and his wife Mary have a son, educated at Drake University in Des Moines, and a daughter, educated at the University of Washington.
In 2007, he and his wife Mary donated $5 million to the University of Oregon. In 2016, he donated $10 million to the University’s aquatic animal care facility.
Who is Timothy Boyle, Son
Timothy Boyle is an American billionaire and the president and CEO of Columbia Sportswear whose son’s name is Joseph P. Boyle. Joseph P. Boyle is the Executive Vice President – Columbia Brand President of Columbia Sportswear Company.
Mr. Boyle joined Columbia in 2005 and has served in a variety of capacities of increasing leadership and responsibility, including brand management, sales,
planning, General Merchandising Manager of Outerwear, Accessories, Equipment, Collegiate and Licensing, Vice President of Apparel Merchandising, and Senior Vice President of Columbia Brand Merchandising & Design.
He was promoted to Executive Vice President, Columbia Brand President in 2017. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Boyle served in a business development role for Robert Trent Jones II Golf Course Architects.
Mr. Boyle is a fourth-generation member of Columbia’s founding Boyle family, the son of Columbia President and CEO Timothy P. Boyle, the grandson of Gertrude Boyle and nephew of Columbia director Sarah A. Bany.
Timothy Boyle Mother Death, Father, And Parents
Gert Boyle is full name is Gertrude Boyle (née Lamfrom; March 6, 1924 – November 3, 2019) was a German-born American businesswoman in the state of Oregon.
After her family fled Nazi Germany, her father started Columbia Sportswear, wherein 1970 she became company president.
She remained president until 1988 and additionally served as chairwoman of the company’s board of directors from 1983 until her death.
Starting in the 1980s, she appeared in a series of advertisements for Columbia Sportswear alongside her son Timothy Boyle, often humorously testing the quality and durability of their products. She was also a philanthropist and memoirist.
Born Gertrude Lamfrom to a German Jewish family in Augsburg, Germany, she was the daughter of Marie (née Epstein) and Paul Lamfrom. Her father used to own the largest shirt factory in Germany until it was seized. Her mother was a nurse during World War I.
In 1937 when she was 13, her family fled Nazi Germany and immigrated to Portland, Oregon, in the United States; her grandmother who stayed behind died in a concentration camp. When she arrived, she did not speak English.
In 1938, her father borrowed money from a relative and purchased the Rosenfeld Hat Company, changing its name to the Columbia Hat Company (after the river). She attended Grant High School in Portland and later graduated with a B.A. in sociology from the University of Arizona.
Career
In 1964, Boyle’s father died and her husband, Neal Boyle, became president; her husband diversified the hat business into outerwear for hunters, fishermen, and skiers. In 1960, Gert Boyle designed the first fishing vest (her husband was an avid fisherman) and the name of the company was changed to Columbia Sportswear.
In 1970, her husband died unexpectedly at the age of 47 of a heart attack; she became president of the company, then with $800,000 in annual sales.
The company struggled and teetered on bankruptcy until in the 1970s, she and her son Timothy, refocused the business on outdoor clothing and casual wear which paralleled a general trend away from formal work attire. In 1975, they were the first company to introduce Gore-Tex parkas.
In 1983, Boyle became chairman of Columbia’s board of directors (a position she ultimately retained for 36 years, until her death in 2019).
Boyle started starring in commercials for the company in 1984. In the ads, she stars as Ma Boyle, who is “One Tough Mother” and uses her son as a test dummy for new products. In 1986, they released the Bugaboo, a jacket with a zip-out lining which became quite trendy and further propelled the company’s growth.
Columbia was unique among specialty clothing manufacturers in that it would sell its products to any retail shop or chain. In 1987, Columbia had $18.8 million in sales and by 1997 it had grown to $353.5 million. The company went public in 1998.
She stepped down as company president in 1988, handing the reins to her son Tim, but remained chairman of the board.
Philanthropy
In 1995, Boyle outfitted the Special Olympics Team USA for the World Games. She donated the royalties from her autobiography One Tough Mother to the Special Olympics and Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children.
In 2010, she endowed the Hildegard Lamfrom Chair in Basic Science in association with the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health and Science University with $2.5 million which honors her sister, Hildegard, who died from a brain tumor in 1984. In 2014, Boyle donated $100 million to the Knight Cancer Institute.
Personal life
In 1948, she married Joseph Cornelius “Neal” Boyle, an Irish American from Pennsylvania whom she met in college, at All Saints Church in Portland, Oregon. Gert Boyle converted to her husband’s Catholic faith.
They had three children: Timothy Boyle (born 1949); Kathy Boyle (born 1952); and Sally Boyle (born 1958). As of 2013, her son Tim is the CEO of Columbia; Kathy is an artist and real estate saleswoman; and Sally is the co-owner of Moonstruck Chocolates, an upscale chocolatier.
In 2010, she was tied up at gunpoint by an armed robber in her home in West Linn, Oregon. She was able to trigger a silent alarm that alerted police, and the robber was later captured.
Boyle died in an assisted living facility in Portland on November 3, 2019, at the age of 95. The cause of death was not disclosed by the company spokesman who announced news of Boyle’s passing.