Adrian Hanauer

Adrian Hanauer is an American businessman and minority owner and general manager of the Seattle Sounders FC. Hanauer's family owns Pacific Coast Feather Co., a down pillow, feather bed, and high-end bedding products manufacturer that was originally founded in 1884 in Germany, but currently headquartered in Seattle. While Hanauer never held an executive position within the company, he began working at the company at 13. Hanauer founded Museum Quality Framing, which is a chain of custom frame stores in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, in 1988. Hanauer is also the owner of a chain of pizza stores called Mad Pizza. As an early investor in aQuantive, an online based advertising company, Hanauer turned a substantial profit when the company went...