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Career Highlights
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
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