Bill Laurie (born July 5, 1952) is an American former basketball player and coach, and current business executive and philanthropist.
[4] While he was in college, Laurie was part of the Memphis Tigers men's basketball team, and competed in the 1973 NCAA national championship game, lost to the UCLA Bruins.
[3][4] During college, Laurie started dating childhood friend Nancy Walton, and the two married a year after graduating.
[3] Alongside the St. Louis Blues and the Savvis Center, PSE operated SkinMarket, a cosmetics company headquartered in Carpinteria, California.
[9] According to the Los Angeles Times, they have also made charitable gifts for "a cancer research center" and "a shelter for abused women" and "a children's hospital".