After selling K2 to the Jarden company for $1.2 Billion how is Richard J. Heckmann filling his free time? By starting up a new public company that’s only business is buying other businesses.
Heckmann . . . has based his new Heckmann Corp. at the business education center that bears his name, the Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management at UC Riverside’s Palm Desert campus. Partners in the new venture, in addition to [Dan] Quayle, include ESPN sports commentator and former University of Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz and Alfred E. Osborne Jr., senior associate dean at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
According to the initial public offering Heckmann’s confidence rating is pretty high.
[Link: The Desert Sun]
