William Porter Payne
William Porter "Billy" Payne (born October 13, 1947) is the chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, having served in that position since 2006 and overseen the introduction of the first women to the club's membership rolls. He is also a managing director at Gleacher & Company, a New York based investment bank. Through the late 1980s and early 1990s he was a leading advocate for bringing the Olympic Games to Atlanta and, in 1996, Payne was named president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG).
Read more about William Porter Payne: Early Life, 1996 Olympics, Tenure As Augusta National Chairman
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