Daniel Snyder
| Daniel Snyder | |
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Snyder in 2001
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| Born |
November 23, 1964 Silver Spring, Maryland |
| Residence | Potomac, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Owning the Washington Redskins NFL team |
| Net worth |
 US$2.1 billion (September 2015) |
| Spouse(s) | Tanya Ivey (m. 1994) |
| Children | 3 |
Daniel Marc Snyder (born November 23, 1964) is an American businessman who is the majority owner of the Washington Redskins American football team, founder of Snyder Communications and primary investor in Red Zebra Broadcasting, which is home to the Redskins Radio ESPN.
Snyder was born on November 23, 1964 in Maryland, the son of Arlette (née Amsellem) and Gerald Seymour "Gerry" Snyder. His family is Jewish. His father was a freelance writer who wrote for United Press International and National Geographic. He attended Hillandale Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland. At age 12, he moved to Henley-on-Thames, a small town near London, where he attended private school. At age 14, he returned to the United States and lived with his grandmother in Queens, New York. A year later, his family moved back to Maryland and he graduated from Charles W. Woodward High School in Rockville, Maryland. His first job was at B. Dalton bookstore in the White Flint Mall.
At 17, Snyder experienced his first business failure when he partnered with his father to sell bus-trip packages to Washington Capitals fans to see their hockey team play in Philadelphia. By age 20, he had dropped out of the University of Maryland, College Park and was running his own business, leasing jets to fly college students to spring break in Fort Lauderdale and the Caribbean. Snyder claims to have cleared US$1 million running the business out of his parents' bedroom with a friend and several telephone lines.
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