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James R. Crane is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Crane Capital Group. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of Crane Worldwide Logistics, a Houston-based single-source provider of global transportation and logistics services, since August 2008. Prior to that time, he founded and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EGL, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed global transportation, supply chain management and information services company based in Houston, Texas, from 1984 until its sale in August 2007. Since February 2010, he has served as a director of Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Health Care Service Corporation. Mr. Crane also served on the board of HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. from 1999 to November 2007. In 2011, Major League Baseball unanimously approved Crane's acquisition of the Houston Astros. Crane is the largest investor of the group, the MLB control person and Chairman of the Board. In 2010, Crane purchased The Floridian and quickly turned into one of the nation's premier golf clubs with a completely reconstructed golf course designed by world renowned Tom Fazio (https://floridian.cc).
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