Dan DeVos

The businesses in detail

How the main business makes money. Amway makes vitamins and supplements, beauty products, home-care goods and water and air purifiers. It sells them through independent distributors, not shops. Distributors earn on their own sales and on sales by people they recruit; Amway earns on the products. Nutrition is 64% of the range. An Amway disclosure for 2024 put the average distributor with a sale at $1,199 a year before expenses.

Biggest deals.

• September 1991: Rich DeVos bought the Magic for $85M through RDV Sports.
• 2009: Amway paid $40M for the first naming rights to the new Orlando arena.
• April 2024: Westcourt, a $500M district beside the Orlando arena, was approved; completion is expected in 2027.
• Amway has committed $33M toward the $175M Amway Stadium in Grand Rapids, due to open in 2027.

Career path

1. 1959

   Father Rich DeVos co-founds Amway with Jay Van Andel

2. Amway years

   Dan rises to vice-president posts covering distributor relations, the Pacific region and corporate affairs

3. 1991

   Family buys the Magic; eldest brother Dick, then 35, runs it first

4. 1993

   Dan and Pamella DeVos found DP Fox Ventures

5. 1995

   Dan and Dave Van Andel buy the Griffins franchise; play begins in 1996

6. 1996-97

   Named hockey Executive of the Year in the IHL

7. 2011

   Becomes Magic chairman

8. 2013, 2017

   Griffins win the Calder Cup

9. 2018

   Rich DeVos dies on 6 September; Dan becomes chairman of RDV Sports

10. 1 July 2025

    Magic drop the chief executive role; Ryan DeVos becomes managing director

Teams and sports assets

Owns now 9

• teamOrlando MagicNBA · Basketball · USSince 1991 · family-owned through RDV Sports; split not published · $85M
• teamOsceola MagicNBA G League · Basketball · USthrough RDV Sports
• teamOrlando Solar Bears (ECHL)ECHL · Ice hockey · USSince 2017 · through RDV Sports
• sports businessRDV SportsplexMultiple · USthrough RDV Sports
• teamGrand Rapids GriffinsAHL (IHL until 2001) · Ice hockey · USSince 1995 · majority owner, chief executive and governor · $7M IHL franchise fee, paid with Dave Van Andel
• teamGrand Rapids RiseMajor League Volleyball · Volleyball · USSince 2024 · owner
• teamAC Grand RapidsMLS NEXT Pro from 2027 · Soccer · USco-owner
• teamOrlando City SCMLS · Soccer · USSince 2021 · DeVos family minority stake, mainly advisory · undisclosed
• teamOrlando PrideNWSL · Soccer · USSince 2021 · DeVos family minority stake, mainly advisory · undisclosed

Owned before 4

• teamOrlando Solar Bears (IHL; folded 2001)IHL · Ice hockey · USSince 1995 to 2001 · family-owned
• teamKansas City Blades (IHL; folded 2001)IHL · Ice hockey · USfamily-owned
• teamOrlando MiracleWNBA · Basketball · USfamily-owned
• teamGrand Rapids RampageArena Football League · Arena football · USowner; won the 2001 title

Other investments and assets

• Companies and funds: He is a partner in Georgian Automotive Group in Barrie, Ontario. His wife runs the Pamella Roland fashion label.
• Property: He is president of Cape Eleuthera Resort and Marina in the Bahamas. Westcourt covers 8.5 acres, with a hotel, apartments and a 3,500-capacity venue. The family says it put more than $100M into the Orlando arena.
• Family in the business: Brother Doug co-chairs Amway with Steve Van Andel. Siblings Dick, Cheri and Doug share the largest Magic stakes with Dan. Ryan and Cole DeVos, from the next generation, work at the Magic.

Giving and politics

• Dan chairs the Orlando Magic Youth Foundation and is a trustee of Northwood University.
• The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, set up in 1970, funded buildings and programmes at Grand Valley State and Hope College.
• The family is a long-standing major Republican donor. Sister-in-law Betsy DeVos was US Education Secretary.
• In 2023 the Magic gave $50,000 to a super PAC backing Ron DeSantis. The union for NBA players objected publicly, Front Office Sports reported.

How they run their teams

• The board leads. Basketball president Jeff Weltman reports to it directly.
• There has been no chief executive since 1 July 2025. Alex Martins, who held the job for 14 years, became vice chair.
• The family said the team was not for sale in 2014 and again in 2018. No outside investor has ever been reported.
• Weltman said in July 2025 that the family was ready to spend heavily.

What they have said

• Weeks after his father died, Dan said the family had not even discussed selling the Magic.
• He said the team gives relatives a shared focus that helps hold the family together.
• The family wants the Magic to improve Central Florida, its then chief executive relayed.
• He said the family designed a new role around Alex Martins instead of simply replacing him.
• For the family business, the Amway chief executive blamed a small sales dip on the many other ways to start a business.

Little-known facts

• Dan won an Arena Football title in 2001 with the Grand Rapids Rampage.
• The family once owned the Orlando Miracle of the WNBA.
• Its first Solar Bears team and hockey's Kansas City Blades folded in 2001, when the Griffins joined the AHL.
• China has long been the top Amway market, with about $3B of revenue there in 2010.