Force 10 Hoops LLC
The Seattle Storm's ownership group, Force 10 Hoops LLC, is comprised of three Seattle businesswomen and civic leaders, all season ticket holders, who stepped forward to purchase the Storm in January 2008 so that the team would remain in Seattle. Their actions were driven by their shared commitment to the importance of giving back to the community and to the philosophy that women and girls should have the chance to compete at every level.
The group’s announcement of intent to purchase the Storm was made on Jan. 8, 2008, and the purchase was approved by the WNBA Board of Governors on Feb. 28, making the Storm one of six independently owned franchises in the WNBA. Force 10 derives its name from the point on the Beaufort wind scale at which bad weather officially becomes a storm.
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Dawn Trudeau is currently serving as Chairperson of Force 10 Hoops LLC Trudeau spent over 20 years in the software industry including 14 years at Microsoft, where she led divisions in Database and Development tools as well as Consumer Products. For the past 10 years she has worked with emerging non-profits to build organizational capacity and sustainability.
Trudeau currently chairs the Board of the Economic Opportunity Institute and is a member of the University of Washington Women’s Center Advisory Board. She also serves on the Board of Social Venture Partners International and the Advisory Board of the Business Partnership for Early Learning.
As an athlete at Yale University, she was named to the Ivy League Women’s Hall of Fame for Softball, MVP on the All-Ivy teams for both basketball and softball, and held a number of university records. She was drafted by the Dallas Diamonds in the 4th round of the 1981 Women’s Professional Basketball League (WBL) draft.
She is active in charitable ventures associated with Hopelink community services, the University of Washington Medical Center, and Yale University.
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Ginny Gilder has started several entrepreneurial ventures, both businesses and non-profits. Today she is principal of her own investment business and president of one of her family’s philanthropic entities, which invests in projects throughout the world that seek to level the economic playing field and promote social justice. She established Washington Works, a local non-profit dedicated to supporting welfare recipients obtain and retain livable-wage employment, and served as its first Executive Director. She has also served on various non-profit boards, locally and around the country, all focused on education or sports.
A rower, she earned four varsity letters at Yale University, and was an All-Ivy Champion twice. Her freshman year she helped usher in the post-Title IX era at Yale by participating in the now-famous women’s crew strip-in protesting the lack of equal facilities. In addition, she represented the United States on four national teams, including two Olympic teams. She was named to the U.S. team which boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games and won a silver medal at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984. She has helped launch two community rowing programs, one in Boston, MA and another in Derby, CT. She received an NCAA Silver Anniversary Award for community service in 2004.
Press Room
Nov. 24, 2010: 
With Team Success, Seattle Storm’s Ownership Group Evolves, Commitment to the Community Grows
Nov. 24, 2010: Force 10 Hoops Fact Sheet
Nov. 19, 2010: Women of Influence: Lisa Brummel (Puget Sound Business Journal)
Nov. 15, 2010: Gilder Team Represents Storm in Head of the Charles
Aug. 25, 2010: Storm's Four Owners are Fans First (Seattle Times)
July 2009: 
Storm 10th Anniversary Video Series
Feb. 28, 2008: WNBA Approves Sale of Seattle Storm to Local Owners
Jan. 10, 2008: Strong Reaction to New Storm Ownership Group
Jan. 8, 2008: Local Ownership Group Secures Option to Purchase Storm
Jan. 8, 2008: A Force for Storm Fans
