CK Swett

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CK Swett

CK Swett is a Brooklyn-based charity auctioneer who began his career at Christie's in 2006 and has had a focus on benefit galas since 2010. Over the last 14 years he has helmed nearly 1,000 events worldwide, including fêtes in Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, London, Toronto, the Caribbean, and across the US, raising more than $100 million for charitable endeavors along the way. He's conducted auctions for Rihanna's Diamond Ball (co-hosting the gala with Dave Chapelle), AmFar, UNICEF, The United Way, St. Jude's, the Clinton Foundation, and in 2012 he sold a pair of boxing gloves for $1.1 million at Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday party.

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Clinton Kenneth Swett

International Auctioneer

CK Swett, a California native and Duke University graduate, began his career in the auction world in 2006, and has worked at Christie’s, Phillips and Heritage during the intervening eighteen years.

CK’s charity auctioneering efforts since 2010 have yielded more than $100 million across more than 750 events that support everything from school children in Malawi and veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan to public schools in Manhattan and the American Cancer Society.

Hailed by the New York Times as having “managed to shake up the staid world of auctioneering,” CK set the world auction record for boxing memorabilia in February 2012, selling the gloves Muhammad Ali wore during his 1965 fight against Floyd Patterson for $1.1 million on behalf of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.