Patrick C Haden

Pat Haden, a Rhodes Scholar quarterback who played on 2 national championship teams at USC and a Super Bowl squad with the Los Angeles Rams before becoming a successful businessman and football broadcaster, assumed the Charles Griffin Cale Director of Athletics' Chair at his alma mater on Aug. 3, 2010. Along with his athletic director position, he received a joint faculty appointment in the USC Marshall School of Business and USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. From 1987 to 2010, Haden was a partner and managing director of Riordan, Lewis & Haden, a Los Angeles private equity firm that invests in high-growth middle market companies. His partners were former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan and Chris Lewis, an All-American tennis player on a pair of USC’s NCAA championship teams. From 1982 to 1987, Haden was an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Lillick, McHose & Charles. He also was an analyst on college and pro football telecasts for CBS (1982- 90), TNT (1990-97), NBC (1998-2009, where he did Notre Dame games) and FOX (2008) and on radio with CBS and Westwood One. He served on USC’s Board of Trustees from 1991 until 2010. Haden graduated from USC magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in English and was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where he received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 1978. He received a law degree from Loyola Law School in 1982. A seventh round pick of the Los Angeles Rams in the 1975 NFL draft, he played for the Southern California Sun of the World Football League in 1975 and then the Rams for 6 seasons (1976-81) while also attending Oxford. He was born on Jan. 23, 1953. He and his wife, Cindy, have 2 daughters, Natalie O’Connor and Kelly Paulus, she played soccer at Georgetown and her husband, David, played football and basketball there), and 2 sons, Ryan, (he played football briefly at USC), and Taylor as well as 5 grandsons.