John Moores has been Chairman of the San Diego Padres since purchasing controlling interest in the club on December 21, 1994. During his tenure, the Padres have won the National League West Championship on four occasions: 1996, 1998, 2005 and 2006. San Diego also captured the franchise's second NL Pennant in 1998.

The Padres 2006 trip to the playoffs marked the first time in franchise history that the club reached the postseason in back-to-back years. San Diego's 88-74 (.543) record in 2006 also secured the Padres three consecutive winning seasons for the first time in club history.

The club's long-term commitment to San Diego, and opportunity to operate as a stable, healthy and competitive baseball organization in a mid-size market were secured by the 2004 opening of PETCO Park.

The downtown ballpark drew a franchise record 3,016,752 fans in its inaugural season and has surpassed the 2.6-million mark in attendance in each of its first three years. In addition, PETCO Park has played host to two Division Series and the inaugural World Baseball Classic semi-finals and finals, as well as several other international sporting events including the 2007 USA SEVENS rugby tournament.

Moores and his wife, Becky, are passionate baseball fans and are committed to putting a team on the field worthy of the fans' support. The Moores are also dedicated to providing new entertainment experiences at the ballpark, marketing the club to a new, broader region, and being active participants in the community.

In January 2005, Moores was elected to a four-year term as a member of Major League Baseball's Executive Council, which consists of eight club-managing general partners (four each from the National and American Leagues). He also serves on the board of directors of Major League Baseball Advanced Media, which is chartered to pursue, on behalf of the clubs, all Internet activity, including video streaming of games over the Internet.

In March 2005, Moores was named Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Carter Center, an international humanitarian organization established in 1982 by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn. The Carter Center is guided by the principle that people with the necessary skills, knowledge and access to resources can improve their lives and the lives of others. The Carter Center has touched the lives of people in more than 65 countries through disease intervention, election monitoring, agriculture, public health training, mental illness advocacy, and civil and international conflict prevention programs. Most of the work of The Carter Center takes place in remote villages in the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Moores became a Trustee of The Carter Center after the organization assumed the operations of The River Blindness Foundation, an organization he founded in 1990. The River Blindness Foundation's mission was to administer medication to treat river blindness, a tropical, parasitic disease afflicting Africa primarily.

Born July 9, 1944, Moores was raised in Texas where he attended public schools and met his wife of 44 years, Becky. He worked full-time as a computer programmer in Houston while he was studying at the University of Houston and supporting his young family. He has no formal education in computers or software development; he gained all knowledge and expertise on the job.

In 1980, after working as an independent software consultant, Moores founded BMC Software, Inc. as its sole shareholder and first programmer. He wrote the initial, highly successful software products at BMC that improved mainframe computer operating system performance. Over time, he added to those programs and built BMC into a significant player in the computer software industry. He served as CEO of BMC until 1987 and Chairman until 1992. Moores continues to be active in providing his creative talents for the development of computer software for many new start-up software companies.

Moores' busy professional life has been complemented by his extensive humanitarian work. For more than 11 years, he and Becky have been among the most prolific philanthropists in the world, donating much of their personal wealth to a wide variety of causes around the globe. They have also become major contributors to San Diego's sports, civic, cultural and educational communities. The couple recently donated $21 million to the University of California-San Diego to establish the John and Rebecca Moores Cancer Center. The Moores family also established the Padres Foundation in 1995, which helps fund programs in education, recreation, health and other youth-oriented philanthropy.

Moores' other affiliations include: The Regents of The University of California, for which he served as Chairman from 2002-2004; Board Member of the Campanile Foundation of San Diego State University; Trustee of The UCSD Foundation; Advisory Board, San Diego Hall of Champions; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Scripps Research Institute; and Co-Chairman, John Burnham & Co.