Howard D. Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman and billionaire. He was chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks, from 1986 to 2000, and, again, from 2008 to 2017, then its executive chairman, from 2017 to 2018. He is a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, and was a member of the board of directors of Square, Inc. In 1998, Schultz co-founded Maveron, an investment group, with Dan Levitan. He was named by Forbes, in 2019, as the 145th-richest person in the United States, with a net worth of $4.1 billion, as of November 2019.