Mr. Anschutz is owner of The Anschutz Corporation, Denver, Colorado. The company's major business interests are in the fields of communications, transportation, natural and renewable resources, real estate, lodging, entertainment, and portfolio investments. A native of Kansas, Mr. Anschutz graduated from the University of Kansas in 1961 with a degree in business. He started The Anschutz Corporation in 1965.

He is a governor of the National Hockey League and Major League Soccer and an executive member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. He serves as chairman of the board of The Anschutz Foundation; an emeritus trustee of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; a lifetime honorary trustee of The American Museum of Natural History; and an alumnus member of the Smithsonian National Board, having previously served on those boards. He has served in the past on boards and committees of various charitable, civic, industry, and financial organizations.

Among Mr. Anschutz’s personal interests are the history of the American West (author of two books on the subject) and the collecting of paintings relating to that subject matter.