Paul Skjodt

Paul Skjodt is an American-Canadian businessman and former ice hockey player, born on 28 June 1958 in Toronto, Ontario. From 1975 he played junior-level ice hockey for the Kitchener Rangers, Windsor Spitfires, Royal York Royals and Toronto Nationals, and also for the Erie Blades and the Crowtree Chiefs. In 1986 he moved to Indianapolis to pursue a career with the Indianapolis Checkers of the International Hockey League. He went on to found and own the Indiana Ice of the United States Hockey League, a team that has since folded and that won the Clark Cup championship in 2009 and 2014. Away from the rink he has worked as a property developer, and with his wife Cindy Simon he is a leading political donor and, through their Samerian Foundation, a philanthropic supporter of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.