Norman N. Green is a shopping mall

Shopping mall

A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...

 developer from Calgary

Calgary

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, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

.

Norm Green was an original director and one of the principal investors in Sage Telecom

Sage Telecom

Sage Telecom, Inc was founded in 1996 as a CLEC reselling telecommunications primarily in rural markets served by SBC Communications. Currently the company provides local phone service, local bundled phone service and dial up internet access in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana,...

, a private, telecommunications company operating in eleven US states. He was also chairman and sole owner of Stewart, Green Properties Ltd., which owned a group of private companies specializing in the development and management of major shopping centers in Canada and the U.S., owning and operating approximately 5000000 square feet (464,515.2 m²) of commercial real estate.
He has been a director of TIMET since 2002.

Green, along with Harley Hotchkiss

Harley Hotchkiss

Harley Norman Hotchkiss, was a Canadian business and community leader who was best known for his contributions to health and sports development in Canada. He was one of the original owners that brought the National Hockey League's Atlanta Flames to Calgary in 1980 and remained a team owner until...

, Norman Kwong

Norman Kwong

Norman Lim "Normie" Kwong, CM, AOE is a former professional athlete, sports executive, and was the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta...

, Ralph Scurfield

Ralph Thomas Scurfield

Ralph Thomas Scurfield, B.Sc , the son of Ralph and Ann Scurfield . He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Manitoba in 1948. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Nu-West Group Limited , and was an original owner of the Calgary Flames...

, B.J. Seaman, and Doc Seaman, was one of the original six owners of the National Hockey League

National Hockey League

The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

 franchise, the Calgary Flames

Calgary Flames

The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is the third major-professional ice hockey team to represent the city of Calgary, following the...

., and remained as a co-owner until 1990. He was minority owner with Calgary when they won the Stanley Cup

Stanley Cup

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 in 1989. He gave up his shares with Calgary and bought the Minnesota North Stars

Minnesota North Stars

The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, and the team's colors for most of its history were green, yellow, gold and white...

, later the Dallas Stars

Dallas Stars

The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...

 in 1990. He was the owner of the North Stars who made the decision to move the team to Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

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 in 1993 despite the team making a Cinderella run to the Stanley Cup Championship in 1991. Green eventually ran into financial problems stemming from his business ventures outside of hockey, and was forced to sell the Dallas Stars to Tom Hicks

Tom Hicks

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. He was a member of the National Hockey League Board of Governors from 1979 to 1996, serving on all of its strategic committees.

As is well explained in a 1993 Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated

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article, Green was much reviled in Minnesota following the decision (due to poor attendance during a string of losing seasons, the failure to reach stadium deals in Minneapolis or Saint Paul, and a sexual harassment lawsuit against Green that resulted in his wife threatening to leave him unless he moved the team) to move the franchise. The article included a quote from North Stars booster club president Julie Hammond: "When [Norm Green] came here, he said, 'Only an idiot could lose money on hockey in Minnesota.' Well, I guess he proved that point."

He is a member of the executive committee of the board for the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University

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and has been active in philanthropic and community service activities for over 30 years.