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Ted Waitt
Founder, The Waitt Family Foundation
Co-founder, Gateway, Inc., founder,
Avalon Capital Group, the Waitt Institute
For Violence Prevention and the Waitt Institute
For Discovery.
Ted Waitt, co-founder and former Chairman and
CEO of Gateway, Inc., helped revolutionize
how people use technology to live, work, and
play through pioneering the direct marketing
of personal computers. Labeled a maverick by
national business publications, he has since
gone on to form multiple enterprises: Avalon
Capital Group, Inc., a wholly-owned, billion-dollar
private investment company with diverse interests
in technology, health care, finance, and real
estate; the Waitt Family Foundation; and the
Waitt Institutes, nonprofit organizations dedicated
to the improvement of mankind's knowledge through
historical and scientific exploration.
Through the Waitt Family Foundation, Ted has
become one of America's 50 most generous philanthropists,
according to Business Week.
Established in 1993, the Foundation initially focused on domestic violence prevention and community development in at risk communities knowing that building stronger families and societies would help foster his vision of a better world. After investing millions of dollars in various programs in multiple communities, Ted concluded that the Foundations work in domestic violence had the most measurable impact on those at risk today. The creation of the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention and the Waitt Institute for Discovery in 2005 has allowed the Foundation to broaden its program interests to the global community. Today, in addition to funding the two institutes, the Foundation funds a variety of environmental and scientific programs with an emerging focus on ocean exploration, conservation, and rejuvenation.
Waitt has served as the Chairman of the Founding
Fathers campaign of the Family Violence Prevention
Fund, just one of the efforts that he supports
in the fight to prevent domestic violence.
He also serves on the Advisory Council of the
National Geographic Society and as a Vice Chairman
of the Board for the Jonas Salk Institute for
Biological Studies.
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