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Dennis K. Berman is a Partner at The Najafi Companies, a holding company with investments across Internet services, consumer products, media, sports and entertainment. Among its holdings are full ownership or large stakes in The Phoenix Suns, McLaren Racing, the X Games, StubHub, Beach House Group and Book-of-the-Month Club.
Prior to joining Najafi, Dennis served as a Managing Director in Lazard's Technology, Media, and Entertainment practice, specializing in digital-media transactions, and advising on deals with a cumulative value of more than $70 billion.
Previously he spent 17 years at The Wall Street Journal, as reporter, columnist and both Business and Financial Editor. He is the winner of two Loeb Awards for excellence in business journalism and the Pulitzer Prize for work on corporate fraud.
Dennis sits on the Board of Advisors of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, the Foundation Board of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, and the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Governors’ Scholars Program.
He holds a magna cum laude History degree from the University of Pennsylvania, is a Financial Leadership Fellow of the Aspen Institute and is a Kentucky Colonel.
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