Brian Raduenz – Owner
in 2025, Brian Raduenz enters his 3rd season as owner of the Grizzlies and Bruins. Brian Raduenz is the Chief Executive Officer of a global Defense company, AEVEX Aerospace based out of Solana Beach, California. A native of Eveleth, Minnesota, he is a graduate and hockey alumnus of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel after a 20-year Air Force career before building and leading a successful Aerospace and Defense corporation.
Raduenz played hockey for Eveleth High School and then went on to play Division I college hockey for the United States Air Force Academy. He would receive his Bachelor’s Degree in 1988 from the Air Force Academy and would then go on to obtain his Master’s Degree in 1992 from the Air Force Insitute of Technology in Dayton, Ohio.
Brian Raduenz and his wife, Theresa, started the Iron Ranger Foundation in 2019, which awards scholarships to high school students who have lost a parent to “death (of one/both parents), estrangement, incarceration, terminal illness, or termination of parental rights.” The Raduenz family also donated $250,000 in February 2021 to the Rock Ridge Rising campaign, which raised money for new school and athletic facilities for the newly formed Rock Ridge School District in Eveleth.