Howard Lincoln
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Howard Charles Lincoln
- School University of California, Berkeley
- Born February 14, 1940 in Oakland, CA USA
Howard Lincoln is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nintendo of America, who owns the Seattle Mariners; Lincoln represents the Mariners, a job he assumed in 2004 after principal owner Hiroshi Yamauchi's shares of the team were transferred to Nintendo of America.
After graduating from law school, Lincoln served in the United States Navy as a lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1966 to 1970 before going into private practice. He worked for the Nintendo Corporation on a high profile case beginning in 1981, then was hired as Senior Vice President and General Counsel in 1983. He was elected chairman in 1994.
