James H. Simons

Business Positions

S-7 Associates, LLC A venture capital firm

• Managing member

Renaissance Technologies LLC Hedge fund

• Chairman of The Board (Sep '82→?) [+1]

• Founder ('82→'10)

Board Memberships

Nick Simons Foundation

• Board Member

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Life Trustee Emeritus*

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Berkeley

• trustee

Brookhaven National Laboratory

• trustee

Math for America

• chair

Empire State Relief Fund Charitable fund organized by Cuomo administration after Hurricane Sandy

• Board Member

Stony Brook Foundation, Inc.

• Chair Emeritus

The Simons Foundation

• Board Member

Institute for Advanced Study The academic home of Albert Einstein, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel

• Vice Chairman [+1]

• Trustee

Rockefeller University

• Trustee

Positions

Euclidean Capital family investment firm

• president

SUNY Stony Brook

• Position

Institute for Defense Analyses Non-profit corporation that administers three federally funded research and development centers

• Position (past)

Donations

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SUNY Stony Brook

• Donation · 150,000,000 USD ('11)

The Simons Foundation

• Donation · 80,000,000 USD ('16)

New York Public Library

• Donation/Grant · 25,000,000 USD ('17)*

NYS Senate Republican Campaign Committee

• 8 contributions · 328,000 USD (Aug 3 '11→Jul 19 '18)

New York State Democratic Committee

• 3 contributions · 160,000 USD (Apr 8 '10→Oct 16 '18)

Andrew Cuomo former governor of New York State

• 7 contributions · 150,000 USD (Jun 16 '10→Dec 28 '16)

Eric T Schneiderman Former New York Attorney General

• 8 contributions · 125,000 USD (Oct 18 '10→Sep 11 '17)

NYS Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee

• 8 contributions · 111,750 USD (Oct 30 '09→May 7 '18)

David A Paterson Lobbyist, Sands Las Vegas; Governor of New York (2008-2010)

• 2 contributions · 55,900 USD (Jun 25 '08)

Suffolk County Democratic Committee NYS

• 6 contributions · 52,500 USD (Aug 15 '11→Oct 30 '15)

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

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Senate Majority PAC Democratic SuperPAC that supports Senate candidates

• 9 contributions · 20,000,000 USD (Jan 28 '20→May 3 '24)

Priorities USA Action Pro-Obama/Hillary Clinton Super PAC

• 6 contributions · 14,000,000 USD (Sep 26 '12→Oct 31 '16) [+1]

• 2 contributions · 4,000,000 USD (May 21 '20→Jul 15 '20)

House Majority PAC "holding Republicans accountable and helping Democrats win seats in the House"

• 5 contributions · 13,000,000 USD (Apr 13 '20→May 3 '24) [+1]

• 4 contributions · 11,000,000 USD (Apr 13 '20→May 3 '24)

FF PAC Created in 2018 to support the presidential election of Joe Biden

• 2 contributions · 9,100,000 USD (Dec 14 '23→May 3 '24)

Unite The Country

• 1 contribution · 3,000,000 USD (Mar 12 '20)

Strategic Victory Fund Ie Pac

• 1 contribution · 1,500,000 USD (May 22 '20)

Immigrant Voters Win

• 1 contribution · 500,000 USD (Oct 4 '16)

Harris Action Fund

• 1 contribution · 400,000 USD (Jun 26 '23)

Democracy Engine, Inc., PAC

• 1 contribution · 357,800 USD (Jun 15 '20)

Biden Action Fund

• 1 contribution · 357,800 USD (Jun 15 '20)

Holdings

Renaissance Technologies LLC Hedge fund

• Owner*

Memberships

National Venture Capital Association Premier trade association representing the US venture capital industry

• Member

Family

Caitlin Heising Granddaughter of the hedge-fund billionaire Jim Simons

• grand daughter

Audrey Cappell founder Foundation for a Just Society, daughter of James Simons

• daughter

Elizabeth Simons President of Heising-Simons Foundation; daughter of hedge-fund billionaire Jim Simons

• daughter

Marilyn Hawrys Simons

• wife ('77→?)

Nathaniel Simons Co Founder of Prelude Ventures; Sea Change Foundation. Meritage Group founder, billionaire investor, climate change activist

• son

Services & Transactions

McDonald's Corporation Major fast food chain

• a corp with stock owned by

Apple, Inc. Multinational consumer electronics and software company

• Service/Transaction

Google Inc. American multinational technology company; specializes in Internet-related services, products

• Service/Transaction

Goldman Sachs Wall Street investment banking, securities and investment management firm

• sold shares of stock to ('09→?)

Lorillard Tobacco Company, LLC 3rd largest tobacco company

• a corp with stock owned by

Schools

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics ('55→Jun '58)

University of California Berkeley

• Doctorate

Social

Robert Mercer Renaissance Tech billionaire, Club for Growth backer

• friend and former co worker *

Leonard E Baum Mathematician

• friend

Miscellaneous Relationships

University of California Berkeley

• Affiliation