Gregory McLaughlin

Gregory T. McLaughlin is currently serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Tiger Woods Corporation, which is composed of two tax-exempt organizations Tiger Woods Charity Event Corporation (“TWCEC”) and Tiger Woods Foundation (“TWF”) located in Irvine, California. The TWCEC acts as the event and sports marketing arm of TWC while conducting 12 - 15 events annually including the Tiger Jam benefit concert; Block Party music festival; Rock Fore Charity concert; Pebble Beach Invitational; AT&T National
PGA TOUR golf tournament and Chevron World Challenge PGA TOUR golf tournament. All net proceeds generated by TWCEC go to support TWF philanthropic programs that support “college access.” These not-for-profit programs include the Tiger Woods Learning Center - Orange County (TWLC-OC); a youth education facility located in Southern California that launched in 2006 and represents the vision of Tiger Woods and his goal to provide youth from diverse backgrounds an interactive enrichment program that will improve individual aptitude in science, technology, engineering and math. Additional Centers have been launched in Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA. Other programs include the Earl Woods Scholarship Program, which offers students four-year college scholarships and international grant initiatives made to youth-based programs in China, Thailand and Korea.
McLaughlin is a member of the Board of Director’s of Realty Income Corporation. Realty Income is Real Estate Investment Trust traded on the NYSE under the symbol “O”. Realty Income is known as the Monthly Dividend Company where the primary goal is to provide dependable monthly income to its shareholders. They do this by acquiring and owning retail real estate that generates lease revenue which is passed on to its shareholders in the form of monthly dividends. McLaughlin is a member of the Audit, Compensation and Strategic Planning Committees.
Prior to joining the Tiger Woods Foundation in 1999, McLaughlin served 11 years as V.P. Business Development for several organizations that directed PGA TOUR events for charity, including the Western Golf Association / Evans Scholars in Chicago, Illinois and the Nissan Open in Los Angeles, California, where he met Tiger Woods in 1991. He first met Woods 20 years ago and gave him his first U.S. PGA Tour sponsor exemption, to the Nissan Open at Riviera Country Club, when Woods was 16.
McLaughlin obtained his Bachelor of Science from Ohio State University and a J.D. from Chicago Kent College of Law. He is married with two daughters and currently resides in Orange County, California.

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