Billionaire businessman Chuck Surack joins Indy Eleven ownership group [Video]

INDIANAPOLIS — On Wednesday, the Indy Eleven soccer team announced a new co-owner as they continue their battle with city officials in securing a Major League Soccer team for the Circle City.

Chuck Surack, a billionaire Fort Wayne businessman, sold a controlling stake in Fort Wayne-based Sweetwater Sound in 2021. Now Surack joins Indy Eleven majority owner Ersal Ozdemir and other investors as they continue striving to bring an MLS team to Indianapolis and develop Eleven Park.

“Chuck Surack has changed our state for the better by consistently identifying opportunities for growth and investing his tireless energy into seizing those moments,” Ozdemir, founder and owner of Keystone Group and Indy Eleven, said in release from Keystone Group. “That is why we are thrilled by his personal commitment to the growth of professional soccer through the Indy Eleven and to the vision of Eleven Park as a neighborhood investment. Chuck shares in our vision for the world’s …