Bill Gates

Leadership & Staff

Boris Nikolic Managing director, bng0 LLC; managing partner, Biomatics Capital

• Chief Advisor, Science and Technology (past)

Business Positions

TerraPower LLC Bill Gates' nuclear power company, HQ Washington State

• chairman

Teledesic Bill Gates-backed technology startup

• Co-Founder ('94→?)*

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska

• Independent Director

Costco Wholesale Corporation

• Director (Board of Directors) (?→'15)

Board Memberships

Microsoft Corporation computer technology

• Non-Independent Director (Board of Directors), Founder and Technology Advisor (?→'15) [+1]

• Board Member

American Energy Innovation Council

• principal

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Family foundation of Microsoft founder Bill Gates

• Co-chair and Trustee

Positions

TED Owned by the Sapling Foundation since 2001; started in 1984 as a conference where technology, entertainment and design converged

• Brain Trust member

FWD.us Zuckerberg-backed advocacy group

• founder ('13→?)

Kymeta telecommunications company

• Position

United Nations Foundation A public charity, was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner's historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes

• Co-Chair*

Global Commission on Adaptation Climate Change Management

• Co-Chair ('18→?)*

Bloomberg New Economy Forum Policy Discussions Joining East and West

• Advisory Board Member*

Lakeside High School Elite Seattle high school

• Alumnus - Donor - Parent* [+1]

• Position

Village Global VC Big Fin-Tech Venture Capital

• Affiliate

Donations

MIT Media Lab Human/machine research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Donation/Grant · 20,000,000 USD

Yes on 1240: Washington Coalition for Public Charter Schools Statewide Initiative Committee

• Donation · 3,075,000 USD (past)

Doug Burgum interior secretary, former governor of North Dakota, former Great Plains Software owner

• Donation · 213,396 USD (May 10 '16) [+1]

• Donation · 107,000 USD ('16)*

Citizens for Working Courts - Enterprise Washington Political Action Committee

• Donation · 200,000 USD (past)

Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Climate solutions venture capital fund created by Bill Gates

• Donation/Grant (Jan 1 '21)

Carbon Engineering Canadian carbon capture firm owned by Occidental Petroleum

• Donation/Grant

Upside Foods

• Donation/Grant

Co-Impact Billionaire philanthropic group

• Founder and Backer

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

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Microsoft Corporation Political Action Committee

• 23 contributions · 101,000 USD ('89→Jul 8 '14)

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Political Fundraising Committee for Democratic Senatorial Candidates

• 6 contributions · 45,000 USD ('97→May 9 '16)

National Republican Congressional Committee

• 3 contributions · 35,000 USD ('10→May 9 '16)

Business Software Alliance PAC

• 6 contributions · 30,000 USD ('06→'11)

National Republican Senatorial Committee Campaign committee for Republican U.S. Senate candidates

• 2 contributions · 30,000 USD (Jun 17 '14→May 11 '16)

2004 Joint State Victory Committee

• 1 contribution · 25,000 USD ('04)

Dave Reichert Former Republican US Representative from Washington (WA-08)

• 6 contributions · 16,400 USD ('05→'11)

Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers US Representative from Washington (R-WA 5)

• 8 contributions · 15,700 USD ('05→May 9 '16)

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions

• 2 contributions · 15,000 USD ('08→'10)

Democratic National Committee Governing body for the U.S. Democratic Party

• 1 contribution · 12,900 USD ('12)

Holdings

Microsoft Corporation computer technology

• Co-founder; percent stake: 3%

Gates Ventures Venture capital firm owned by Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and mega-philanthropist

• Owner ('08→?); percent stake: 100%

Ginkgo Bioworks

• Owner

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust

• Trustee

Cascade Investment, L.L.C. Bill Gates' wholly owned holding company, led by Michael Larson

• Owner ('94→?); percent stake: 100%

Waste Management, Inc. Has the largest trucking fleet in the garbage industry

• Owner*; percent stake: 8%

Mente LLC Bill Gates' private aviation management company

• Owner

bng0 LLC Created to invest in Editas Medicine

• Investor

Memberships

Yellowstone Club A private community and luxury real estate in Big Sky, Montana and the only private mountain ski resort in the world.

• Member

Breakthrough Energy Coalition

• Member

Clinton Global Initiative Annual conference that coincides with U.N. General Assembly in NY.

• Member

Augusta National Golf Club Exclusive, formerly all-male golf club in Georgia

• Member

Family

Melinda French Gates Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation; former Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• wife (past)

Rory Gates Son of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates

• son

Phoebe Gates Daughter of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates; founder Phia, a web browser/app, aims to be the Booking.com of fashion

• daughter

Jennifer Gates Eldest daughter of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates

• daughter

Libby Gates Sister of Bill Gates

• sister

Mary Maxwell Gates Longtime regent of the University of Washington

• mother

Kristianne Blake President, Kristianne Gates Blake, PS.

• Sister

William H Gates Sr Father of Bill Gates and formerly partner at Preston Gates

• father

Services & Transactions

Crown Castle International Corp. Owns, operates, and leases towers for wireless communications

• Purchased by · 627,000,000 USD (Feb '19→?)

Schools

Harvard University Elite private university located in Cambridge, MA

• Drop Out

Social

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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor former Duke of York

• Social

Jeffrey Epstein Wealthy money manager, registered sex offender

• Social

Mila Antonova Russian bridge player and software engineer associated with Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates

• affair partner

Alexander Galitsky Investor involved in the creation of the first VPN for windows

• Social

Arianna Huffington Co -Founder of Huffington Post

• Social

Bono Entertainer; Philanthropist

• friend

Paula Hurd Widow of Oracle president, Mark V Hurd

• friend

Ted Turner American Media mogul; Turner Broadcasting founder

• Collaborator UN / Giving Pledge ('10→?)

Paul G Allen Late Microsoft co-founder

• Friends - Business Partner*

Brendan Clouston Canadian telecom billionaire

• close friend

Miscellaneous Relationships

OpenAi, Inc. Ai research non-profit | Co-founded Greg Brockman & Ilya Sutskever

• Affiliation*

World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum is an independent, international organization incorporated as a Swiss not-for-profit foundation.

• Speech Creative Capitalism (Jan 24 '08→?)*

Lucis Trust formerly the Lucifer Publishing Company

• Affiliation

Bill and Melinda Gates Center For Computer Science and Engineering Molecular Technology and Molecular Engineering at University of Washington

• At Opening ('19→?)*

The Good Club Secret Group of Billionaires Working On Global Impact Investing

• Launched by ('09→?)*

First Annual APEC Meeting 1993, Seattle, WA Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

• Met With Clinton During ('93→?)*

The Giving Pledge Group of Wealthy Giving Fortunes Away

• Project ('10→?)*