John Sherman is an entrepreneur, civic leader, philanthropist, third owner of the Kansas City Royals, and the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s 2021 Kansas Citian of the Year.
The award announcement came tonight at the climax of the Chamber’s 134th Annual Dinner meeting, the most prestigious event of the Kansas City business community.
Sherman built two incredibly successful companies within the space of ten years. His first startup was LPG Services Group, founded in 1991. It grew rapidly, merging with Dynergy in 1996. That same year, Sherman founded Inergy L.P. The company went public in 2001, merged with Crestwood Holdings in 2013. A propane supplier, it’s now an industry leader in natural gas storage and transportation worth $6-billion.
Sherman has been named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and, along with Ewing Kauffman and Lamar Hunt, was among the first class of men and women chosen for UMKC’s Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame.
The list of civic organizations Sherman’s been involved in is a long one, and includes the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City, Teach for America, the Ewing M. Kauffman Foundation, UMKC Foundation, Truman Presidential Library, and World War I Museum.
He and his wife Marny founded the Sherman Family Foundation in 2006. The foundation is a strong supporter of education, particularly urban education, including providing the startup costs for UMKC’s Urban Education Research Center. His philanthropy, he says, is centered around the...
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