as has its widespread efforts to transform the community". Sports Business Journal profiled Vinik in 2015 following the Lightning's second appearance in the Stanley Cup Final. Philanthropy In 1998, Vinik and his wife, Penny, donated $1.25 million to endow a professorship at Duke's engineering school. The next year, they donated $5 million towards facilities at the engineering school. In 2012, they donated $10 million to create a challenge fund to endow associate and full professorships dedicated to addressing complex societal challenges. He donated $1.5 million to build a new Jewish Community Center in South Tampa. With his wife, he also donated to Vanderbilt University in 2016-2017. Awards and honors Two-time Stanley Cup Champion (as owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning) - 2020, 2021 References 1959 births American financiers American investment bankers American money managers Boston Red Sox owners Businesspeople from New Jersey Duke University Pratt School of Engineering alumni Harvard Business School alumni Living people National Hockey League owners People from Deal, New Jersey Jewish American sportspeople Tampa Bay Lightning executives Arena Football League executives 21st-century American Jews