Jimmy Haslam

James Arthur Haslam III is the CEO of the Pilot Flying J truck stop chain and along with wife, Dee, as a co-owner, is owner of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League and the co-owner of the Columbus Crew SC of Major League Soccer.

• Jimmy Haslam is the CEO of Pilot Flying J, a truck stop company founded in 1958 by his father who paid $6,000 for an existing gas station in Virginia.
• Berkshire Hathaway paid a reported $2.8 billion for 39% of Pilot in 2017 and will acquire another 41% by 2023.
• Pilot has more than 750 locations in 44 states and hit $29 billion in revenue in 2018.
• In 2012, he became the majority stakeholder of Cleveland Browns for roughly $990 million. Today his stake is worth nearly $1.2 billion.
• Jimmy joined the board in 1975 when he was 20 and a senior at the University of Tennessee; company’s annual sales were about $50 million at the time.