Thomas S. Monaghan

Thomas S. Monaghan, is an American entrepreneur who founded Domino’s Pizza in 1960. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and owned the Detroit Tigers from 1983 to 1992. He established the Mater Christi Foundation, better known as the Ave Maria Foundation, to focus on catholic education, media, community projects and other charities in 1983. Monaghan dedicated his time and considerable fortune to Catholic causes. A champion of the pro-life movement and other Catholic teachings “to combat the nation’s ‘moral crisis’”, Monaghan has spent hundreds of millions of dollars promoting them.