Matthew Silverman (born May 20, 1976) is an American

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executive. He is currently the co-president, along with

Brian Auld Brian Auld is an American professional baseball executive. He is currently the co-president, along with Matthew Silverman, of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). Career Auld received his bachelor's degree in economics and master's ...

, of the

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(MLB).

Biography

Silverman is Jewish and was raised in a

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

family,New York Times: "Religion and Baseball, a Scheduling Conflict" by Alan Schwartz
October 2, 2008 He graduated

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from

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in 1998 after graduating from

St. Mark's School of Texas The St. Mark's School of Texas is a nonsectarian preparatory day school for boys in grades 1–12 in Dallas, Texas, United States, accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest. History St. Mark's traces its origins to the T ...

in Dallas. Silverman began his career at

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...

in its

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division. At the company he helped

Stuart Sternberg Stuart L. Sternberg (born August 8, 1959) is an American Wall Street investor. He is the principal shareholder of the ownership group that owns the Tampa Bay Rays and acts as the team's Managing General Partner since November 2005. Early life T ...

structure his bid to purchase a controlling interest in

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. Silverman was hired as president of the team and became part of the transition group that changed the name of the franchise from the Devil Rays to the Rays. Under his leadership, the team moved from last place to a berth in the

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in 2008. In January 2009, Street & Smith's ''Sports Business Journal'' named Silverman to its 2009 "Forty Under 40" list which honors accomplished and promising sports executives under the age of 40. Silverman served as team president for nine years before he was named the director of baseball operations in 2014. He returned to the role of team president in 2017. He currently resides in

St. Petersburg, Florida St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 258,308, making it the fifth-most populous city in Florida and the second-largest city in the Tampa Bay Area, after Tampa. It is the ...

, and he is the team representative at the Tampa Bay Partnership. He is a board member of the Pinellas Education Foundation, the

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, the Hillsborough Education Foundation, and Starting Right, Now.

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