Greg Maday has been a successful entrepreneur for nearly four decades. He is currently Chairman, Chief Executive and Co-owner of SpecChem, a manufacturer of specialty construction chemicals for the concrete industry. SpecChem has plants and offices in ten cities in the U.S. and China.

Greg is co-owner of Homefield and BHM. Homefield offers state-of-the-art facilities to elevate the experience of amateur sports and training. BHM is a developer currently engaged in an $800 million development with Homefield Showcase, Homefield Baseball, Margaritaville Hotel & Resort, and Atlas 9 as its anchor tenants.

Greg is a General Partner and Co-Founder of Rock Island Capital, a private equity fund with $320,000,000 in deployed capital and a performance ranking it in the top quartile of like type funds since 2005. Rock Island’s offices are in Chicago and Kansas City.

Additionally, Greg, along with five partners, purchased the Kansas City Wizards from Lamar Hunt in 2006, the MLS team is now known as Sporting KC and plays in an award-winning soccer specific stadium, Children’s Mercy Park.

Greg currently serves on the following business, social and advisory boards: SpecChem, Lyons Manufacturing, Rock Island Capital, OnGoal, UMB, na, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Finance Committee, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, American Royal, and the Trans Mississippi Golf Association.

Greg, and his wife, Elizabeth, are involved in numerous philanthropic efforts. Greg has embraced the opportunity to encourage other potential entrepreneurs by offering his time to various entrepreneurial mentoring programs. Elizabeth and Greg have two children, Alexandra, 29 married to William Bolen and Maxwell, 25. The family enjoys playing golf, cooking, attending Sporting KC matches, traveling and walking the family dog, Lola.

Greg earned a Bachelor of Science Business Administration in Finance from the University of Missouri and completed the nine-year YPO Executive Leadership Program from the Harvard Business School.