Tom Steyer

Farallon Capital Management. 2020 Dem presidential candidate. Backs NextGen Climate Action, Trump impeachment

Played soccer at Yale; graduated summa cum laude. First job in mergers & acquisitions at Morgan Stanley. Earned Stanford M.B.A., then worked for Goldman Sachs' risk arbitrage group. Founded hedge fund Farallon Capital Management 1986. Same year joined private equity outfit Hellman & Friedman. Spun off London, Singapore, Charlotte operations 2005; renamed Noonday Capital. Today separate firms share $36 billion in assets. Stanford trustee.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Leadership & Staff

Kate Gordon Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy

• policy adviser

Christopher S Lehane Vice-president of global affairs, OpenAI; Partner/Founder, Fabiani & Lehane

• adviser

Zach Davis Senior Advisor to billionaire investor Tom Steyer

• Position

Business Positions

Hellman and Friedman LLC Private equity firm founded in 1984 by Warren Hellman and Tully Friedman

• Managing Director

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

• Associate, Risk Arbitrage (past)

Morgan Stanley investment bank

• Financial Analyst, M & A (past)

Board Memberships

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Farallon Capital Management San Francisco-based hedge fund

• Founder ('86→?)

The Hamilton Project Economic policy think tank founded by Robert Rubin & Roger Altman

• Advisory Council member

Climate Power

• Board Member

Beneficial State Foundation The non-profit associated with Beneficial Bank, Oakland, CA

• Founder, Director

Advanced Energy Economy Institute

• Board Member

OneCalifornia Foundation

• Board Member

Precourt Institute for Energy Stanford energy institute

• advisory council member

Center for the Next Generation climate change and child advocacy org

• Board Member

Center for American Progress Democratic insider think tank started by former Clinton administration official John Podesta

• Board Member

Stanford University One of the world's leading research and teaching institutions

• Member, Board of Trustees

Positions

Climate Disaster Relief Fund Founded by Thomas Steyer in 2014

• Founder ('14→?)

Fix the Debt organization advocating fiscal austerity

• CEO fiscal leadership council member ('12→?)

For Our Future

• Co-founder (May '16→?)

NextGen America Progressive advocacy nonprofit and PAC created by Tom Steyer; mobilizes young voters

• Founder ('13→?)*

NextGen Committee Super PAC funded by Thomas Steyer

• Founder

Donors

Kay Yun Co-Founder and Partner at Health Evolution Partners

• Donation/Grant · 260 USD (Jan 1 '19→Oct 14 '19)

Emiko Higashi Founder and managing director of Tomon Partners

• Donation/Grant · 1 USD (Aug 19 '19)

Donations

NextGen Committee Super PAC funded by Thomas Steyer

• Donation · 750,000 USD

New York State Democratic Committee

• 1 contribution · 10,000 USD (Oct 31 '18)

Cyrus Vance Jr DA of New York County

• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD (Jun 29 '09)

Common Sense Media Kid's media watchdog group

• Funder

Need to Impeach Trump impeachment campaign; close to 6 million petition signatures

• Donation/Grant*

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

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Tom Steyer Farallon Capital Management. 2020 Dem presidential candidate. Backs NextGen Climate Action, Trump impeachment

• 899 contributions · 325,464,727 USD (Jul 9 '19→May 11 '20)

Tom Steyer 2020

• 899 contributions · 325,464,727 USD (Jul 9 '19→May 11 '20)

NextGen Climate Action

• 29 contributions · 49,860,981 USD (Feb 22 '19→Jul 12 '21)

Need to Impeach

• 8 contributions · 14,769,861 USD (Jan 10 '19→Oct 24 '19)

Senate Majority PAC Democratic SuperPAC that supports Senate candidates

• 2 contributions · 10,000,000 USD (Apr 21 '14)

Tom Steyer Pac

• 11 contributions · 8,173,603 USD (May 11 '20→May 20 '21)

For Our Future

• 1 contribution · 2,500,000 USD (Jul 24 '20)

CE Action Cmte

• 5 contributions · 1,866,744 USD (Mar 19 '13→May 21 '15)

Biden Action Fund

• 3 contributions · 715,000 USD (Jun 12 '20→Aug 10 '20)

Biden Victory Fund

• 3 contributions · 340,000 USD (Jul 22 '20→Oct 21 '20)

Campaign Donors

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Tom Steyer Farallon Capital Management. 2020 Dem presidential candidate. Backs NextGen Climate Action, Trump impeachment

• 899 contributions · 325,464,727 USD (Jul 9 '19→May 11 '20)

Elliot Peters Attorney, Keker & Van Nest - San Francisco, California

• 4 contributions · 8,900 USD (Aug 2 '19→Apr 24 '20)

Hamid Moghadam Chairman and CEO, Prologis

• 4 contributions · 8,400 USD (Jul 30 '19→Apr 29 '20)

Julian Robertson Jr Prominent hedge fund manager and multi-billionaire

• 3 contributions · 8,400 USD (Oct 4 '19→Apr 7 '20)

Richard C Perry Hedge fund manager; chairman of retail chain Barney's at the time of its bankruptcy

• 3 contributions · 8,400 USD (Jul 9 '19→Apr 29 '20)

Matthew R Barger

• 5 contributions · 8,400 USD (Aug 2 '19→Apr 7 '20)

Hume R Steyer Attorney, partner at Seward & Kissel

• 3 contributions · 8,400 USD (Jul 24 '19→Apr 7 '20)

Seth Klarman American billionaire hedge fund manager

• 2 contributions · 8,400 USD (Feb 4 '20→Apr 24 '20)

Donald Sussman Managed Paloma Partners hedge fund

• 3 contributions · 8,400 USD (Jul 9 '19→Apr 29 '20)

Kathryn A Hall Founder and Co-Chair of Hall Capital Partners LLC; former U.S. ambassador to Austria

• 3 contributions · 8,400 USD (Jul 9 '19→Apr 7 '20)

Holdings

REO Homes LLC

• Investor

Tomkat Charitable Trust

• Owner ('08→?)

EFW Partners energy, food, and water investment firm

• investor

Memberships

Wolf's Head Society One of Yale's super-elite secret societies

• Member

Breakthrough Energy Coalition

• Member

Democracy Alliance "secretive club of wealthy liberals" - membership by invitation only

• Member

Family

James Steyer Founder and CEO, Common Sense Media

• Brother

Kathryn A Taylor banker, environmentalist, wife of Tom Steyer

• wife [+1]

• wife

Hume R Steyer Attorney, partner at Seward & Kissel

• brother

Roy Steyer Sullivan & Cromwell partner; father of Tom Steyer

• father

Schools

Phillips Exeter Academy Regarded as one of the U.S.'s best and most elite private boarding schools, "Exeter" is located in New Hampshire and hosts students from grade 9-12.

• High School

Stanford Graduate School of Business

• MBA (past)

Yale University Private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut - founded in 1701

• Bachelor of Arts / Science