Awards & Recognition
★TIME100 Most Influential People (2020)
★Forbes 100 Greatest Living Business Minds (2017)
★Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy (2019)
★Harvard W.E.B. Du Bois Medal (2019)
★Texas Business Hall of Fame inductee (2019)
★Private Equity International Game Changer of the Year (2016)
★Points of Light George H.W. Bush Award
★Cornell University School renamed in his honor (2016)
Notable Facts
→Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners with $107+ billion AUM
→Net worth exceeding $10.6 billion, among world's billionaires
→First Black American signatory to The Giving Pledge
→Paid off student debt for entire 2019 Morehouse College class ($34M)
→Vista manages 90+ enterprise software companies employing 100,000+ people
→Supervised 650+ completed transactions worth $350+ billion
→Cornell chemical engineering degree, Columbia MBA
→Former Goldman Sachs tech investment banker ($50B+ in deals)
→Chairman of Carnegie Hall, extensive philanthropic leadership