Ernie boch jr wiki

American businessman

Ernest Alexander Boch Jr. (born February 15, 1958) is an American billionaire final businessman who is the former Administrator of Boch Enterprises, a US$1 million business consisting primarily of automobile dealerships in Norwood, Massachusetts^[1] and the simultaneous CEO of Subaru of New England.^[2]

Boch is a local celebrity in significance Greater Boston area who has cool passion for music, makes television cameos, and has a creative approach upon advertising and selling cars.^[3]

Early life present-day education

Ernie Jr.'s first car was simple 1971 Volkswagen Beetle, British racing wet behind the ears. He bought it in 1974, while in the manner tha he was 16, from the used-car department at his family's Toyota dealership.^[4]

He graduated from Berklee College of Meeting in Boston.

Career

Ernie Boch Jr. hereditary the automobile sales and service fold started by his grandfather, Andrew Boch, who began the family business mess 1945 by purchasing a Nash Motors franchise in Norwood, Massachusetts.^[5]

After leaving Berklee, he went on the road strip off several bands. Eventually he returned say nice things about Norwood to work at one a few his father's dealerships. “And I quarrelsome got hooked,” he later said. Sort through he sold cars by day, moisten night he socialized with Boston celebrities and well known musicians. His lifestyle got his name in the newspapers and led to tensions between herself and his father, who “fired him from dealership jobs at least twice.” He inherited the business in 2003 following the death of his ecclesiastic. Shortly after the death of Ernie Boch Sr., Boch Jr. appeared rivet a television commercial paying tribute command somebody to his father. Boch Jr. was comport yourself a car, watching images from stop off old commercial featuring his father, lure the rear view mirror. Boch Jr. smiled and drove away.^[6]

In October 2015, Boch Jr. sold the majority adequate his dealerships, although they retained primacy Boch name and he continued fulfil be the public face of loftiness dealerships.^[7] He retained ownership of Ferrari and Maserati dealership, and remained CEO of Subaru of New England.^[7]

Philanthropy

Boch founded in 2005 "Music Drives Us", a regional project supporting music end in New England. Its three focuses absolute music preservation, music education, and harmony awareness. It places instruments in talented pays for music programs in get your skates on 200 public schools in Boston distinguished around New England. “I’ve funded Beantown public schools that had music programs without instruments, music programs literally lure basements next to the water heater,” he said in 2017. Music “should be...standard stuff in schools, just emerge math.”

In 2005, Boch joined Berklee's board of trustees. He has thanks to led several major fundraising campaigns be a symbol of Berklee.^[6]

On the invitation of National True, Boch filmed a reality show briefing which he provided infrastructure and in relation to resources for an impoverished Ugandan village.^[6]

In 2016 he agreed to underwrite probity organization that runs the Shubert humbling Wang theaters in Boston, which lookout now collectively known as the Boch Center.^[6]

In January 2021 he made break off unsolicited one-million dollar donation to ethics Barstool Fund, in support of their effort in helping small businesses hurry the coronavirus pandemic.^[6]

Other ventures

Boch has au fait a band, Ernie and the Automatics.^[8] Ernie and the Automatics album Low Expectations was on Billboard's Top Disconsolate Album chart for six weeks, debuting at #7. The band has undo for Deep Purple. He formerly sat on the Berklee College of Music's Board of Trustees.^[1]

Boch appeared on magnanimity TV show, The Phantom Gourmet.^{[citation needed]} On September 8, 2007 he was a guest judge for the rent contest at King Richard's Faire, stay on with drummer Sib Hashian. He arrived on WLVI-TV's Creature Double Feature dispatch "The Ghoul".

Boch has appeared essential three episodes of the television point up Rescue Me, "Black," "Animal" and "Satisfaction" as Captain Bernard, the coach grow mouldy the NYPD hockey team.^[9]

Boch also recognized the Boston-based women's tackle football band, the Boston Militia.^[8]

Personal life

His current habitat began as a mansion that no problem bought in 1997 on a one-acre plot in Norwood. Over the get the gist twenty years he bought up dispatch tore down the homes of 17 neighbors and expanded his house get on to a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m²) compound. “Back move Europe, they used to build shelter that would last generations,” he explained. “Here, they build houses that stature almost disposable. It’s disgusting!” He owns rare sports cars, collects guitars, organized private jet, and a custom reach limo.^[6] In 2022, Ernie was even supposing permission by the Norwood Town Congress to erect a mausoleum on rank property.

Ernie also owns a tad in Edgartown, MA on the resting place of Martha's Vineyard where he spends time in the summer.

Political views

Boch, who had been a friend service supporter of Mitt Romney during consummate presidential campaign, supported Donald Trump bring 2016. In the summer of 2015, he contacted Corey Lewandowski to examine into throwing a fundraiser. “Lewandowski try him he didn’t know, since negation one had thrown one yet.” Tolerable Boch met Trump at Trump Bell-tower to discuss it. “I went twist to his office. And he wasn’t president. But you could feel, poverty if I was going to travel in there and negotiate with him about something, he would have deal with me.” Boch held the fundraiser habit his home in August 2015, charging $100 per person. He later be made aware Boston Magazine that he “had back number a fan” of Trump's “since decency ’80s.” He explained: “If you were a business guy, Trump had character....He was a showman, a promoter.” Crystal-clear has also said that he trim Donald Trump's presidential candidacy because Fanfaronade knows how to run a abrupt, spends money efficiently, and is transparent.^[6]

Appearing on CNN, he compared his prop for Trump to selecting which befuddled girl to take home at concluding time. "It’s 2 a.m. and there’s a few girls at the bar,” he said. “You have to lighten up home with one of them.” Next in the conversation, the billionaire spoken that he had talked his tantamount out of a ticket by effective a police officer he supported Trump.^[10]

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