Ted Mondale

Theodore Adams Mondale (born October 12, 1957) is an American politician, entrepreneur, public administrator, and former Chief Executive Officer of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, which oversaw Minnesota Vikings stadium from conception to operation. He is the elder son of former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale and Joan Mondale. He served as a Minnesota state senator, Chairman of the Metropolitan Council, 1999–2003, and CEO of Nazca Solutions, Inc. - a technology fulfillment venture based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

After serving in the Minnesota State Senate, Mondale sought the Democratic primary nomination for Minnesota governor in 1998. The race included three other candidates from families famously connected in Minnesota politics: State Attorney General Skip Humphrey, the son of former U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey; State Auditor Mark Dayton of the Dayton Department Store dynasty; and Hennepin Country district attorney Mike Freeman, son of former governor Orville Freeman. Mondale, who was more fiscally moderate than the other candidates and who had distanced himself from labor, did not prevail in the primary.

In 1999, Mondale was appointed chairman of the Metropolitan Council in the Cabinet of Governor Jesse Ventura. He oversaw the initiation of high density housing/retail development in the Twin Cities, as well as light-rail transportation planning from the suburban areas to the central cities. In 2011, he was named chair of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission by Governor Mark Dayton. In 2012, Mondale was named the CEO of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority.

Mondale was married to Pam, with whom he has three children; the couple separated in 2011, not long after their eldest child became an adult, and divorced in 2013 Mondale's sister, Eleanor Mondale (1960–2011), was a television personality who had brain cancer from 2005 until her death from the disease at age 51.