Ice Edge Holdings, LLC is a company that has been formed to acquire the Phoenix Coyotes. The current Ice Edge ownership group includes individuals with financial and marketing backgrounds who believe that the Coyotes are an undermanaged and underutilized asset. It is the group’s intention to pursue a strategy to keep the team in Arizona for the longer term. Ice Edge Holdings has developed a detailed plan to create a viable hockey future in Arizona.
Anthony LeBlanc is the Chief Executive Officer of Ice Edge Holdings, LLC. LeBlanc has spent his career in senior sales and marketing positions with some of Canada's highest profile companies. Most recently he spent 8 years at Research In Motion (RIMM), where he was the Vice President of Global Sales and led a team that was responsible for the direct interaction with RIM’s largest customers worldwide. Anthony is on the Board of Governors of Lakehead University and is a member of the Canadian American Business Council, an organization based in Washington, DC that works to foster trade relations and business links between US and Canadian businesses.
Keith McCullough is the Chairman of Ice Edge Holdings, LLC and the CEO of Research Edge LLC, the first real-time investment advisory firm of its kind. Prior to founding Research Edge, Keith built a 10-year background of managing money at The Carlyle Group’s hedge fund, Magnetar Capital, Falconhenge Partners, and Dawson-Herman Capital Management. Keith got his start as an institutional equity sales analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston after earning his BA in Economics from Yale University, where he captained the Yale Varsity Hockey Team to a Division I Ivy League Championship his senior year.
Daryl Jones is the Chief Operating Officer of Ice Edge Holdings, LLC and has served as the group’s public spokesperson. Daryl is a native of Bassano, Alberta and played collegiate hockey at Yale University under former U.S. Olympic Coach, Tim Taylor. He is currently a Managing Director at Research Edge, LLC where he runs the Macro business, and the firm’s consulting and principal investing activities. Prior to Research Edge, Jones was a Research Analyst with Onex Corporation, Dawson-Herman Capital Management and J.P. Morgan. He has a BA in Political Science from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia University.
Todd Jordan is the Chief Financial Officer of Ice Edge Holdings, LLC and Managing Director of Gaming, Lodging and Leisure at Research Edge. Todd has been a Portfolio Manager, Managing Director, and Analyst at Jefferies Asset Management, Cobalt Capital, and Ardsley Partners. Previously Todd worked as a sell-side analyst at Raymond James, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and Buckingham Research. He has extensive contacts in the gaming and leisure industries, and was previously on the board of Shuffle Master, a publicly traded company. Todd has his MBA from the University of Chicago.