CK Swett

A California native and Duke University graduate, CK Swett began his career in the auction world in 2006 and has worked at Christie's, Phillips, and Heritage across the intervening years. His charity auctioneering since 2010 has yielded more than $100 million across nearly 1,000 events, supporting causes from school children in Malawi and veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to public schools in Manhattan and the American Cancer Society.

The New York Times credited him with shaking up the staid world of auctioneering. In February 2012 he set the world auction record for boxing memorabilia, selling the gloves Muhammad Ali wore in his 1965 fight against Floyd Patterson for $1.1 million on behalf of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.