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Robert F. Smith (investor)

August 24, 2023

For other people named Robert F. Smith, see Robert F. Smith (disambiguation).

Robert Frederick Smith (born December 1, 1962) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.

Robert Smith
Born
Robert Frederick Smith

(1962-12-01) December 1, 1962 (age 60)
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
EducationCornell University (BS)
Columbia University (MBA)
Occupation(s)Businessman, philanthropist
TitleChairman & CEO, Vista Equity Partners
Spouse(s)
Suzanne McFayden
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(m. 1988; div. 2014)​

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(m. 2015)​
Children7
Websitehttps://robertsmith.com/

Early life

Smith was born to Dr. William Robert Smith and Dr. Sylvia Myrna Smith, who were both school teachers.[1] He grew up in a predominantly African American, middle-class neighborhood in Denver, Colorado.[1] When he was an infant, his mother apparently carried him at the March on Washington, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.[2] He attended Carson Elementary School and East High School[3] in Denver.[1][4]

In high school, he applied for an internship at Bell Labs but was told the program was intended for college students. Smith persisted, calling each Monday for five months. When a student from M.I.T. did not show up, he got the position, and that summer he developed a reliability test for semiconductors.[5][6] Smith earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1985.[7][8] In 1994, he received his Master of Business Administration from Columbia University with concentrations in finance and marketing.[1][9][10]

Career

After graduating from Cornell, Smith worked at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Air Products & Chemicals, and later at Kraft General Foods as a chemical engineer,[1] where he registered two United States and two European patents.[11] From 1994 to 2000, he worked for Goldman Sachs in technology investment banking, first in New York City and then in Silicon Valley.[1] He advised on merger and acquisition activity with companies such as Apple and Microsoft.[12] In 2018, Smith was included in Vanity Fair's New Establishment List, which is an annual ranking of individuals who have made impactful business innovations.[13][14]

Vista Equity Partners

In 2000, Smith founded Vista Equity Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm of which he is the principal founder, chairman and chief executive.[10] According to Black Enterprise magazine, Smith is credited with consistently generating a 30 percent rate of return for his investors from the company's inception to 2020.[15] As of 2019, Vista Equity Partners was the fourth largest enterprise software company after Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP, including all their holdings.[16][17][18] Vista has invested in companies such as STATS, Ping Identity, and Jio.[19][20][21] As of 2019, Vista Equity Partners had closed more than $46 billion of funding.[22]

In 2016, Smith was named Private Equity International's Game Changer of the Year for his work with Vista.[23]

The 2019 PitchBook Private Equity Awards named Vista Equity Partners "Dealmaker of the Year".[24]

Philanthropy

On May 19, 2019, during his 2019 commencement speech at Morehouse College, Smith pledged a reported $34M in student loan debt, "(including) the debt of parents and guardians incurred" over the educational pursuit of each member of the 2019 graduating class.[25] In a June 2020 report, Time reported the launch of The Student Freedom Initiative, a nonprofit led by Smith, to benefit HBCU students.[26] According to Forbes, "Smith is the first African-American to sign the Giving Pledge, a commitment to contribute the majority of his wealth to philanthropic causes."[27]

Politics

In December 2022, taking a stand together against increasing instances of racism and antisemitism in the US, Smith joined New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Reverends Al Sharpton and Conrad Tillard, World Values Network founder and CEO Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, and Elisha Wiesel to host 15 Days of Light, celebrating Hanukkah and Kwanzaa in a unifying holiday ceremony at Carnegie Hall. [28][29] Smith said: "When we unify the souls of our two communities, we can usher in light to banish the darkness of racism, bigotry, and antisemitism."[30]

Tax evasion

In August 2020, Bloomberg reported that Smith was facing a tax inquiry regarding a potential failure to pay U.S. taxes on $200 million in assets, intended for U.S. charities, that were transferred through offshore entities.[31] In October 2020, Smith reached a non-prosecution agreement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), agreeing to pay a fine of $139 million. This agreement came alongside Smith agreeing to assist the DOJ in creating a separate case against Robert T. Brockman, who had been charged with hiding $2 billion in income.[32][33][34][35][36] According to the DOJ, Brockman, the backer of Smith’s first private equity fund, led him to use the offshore trust that concealed income.[37]

According to reports in Bloomberg and The Washington Post, Brockman approached Smith in the 1990s about creating a private equity fund and offered to back the initial fund.[31][37] As part of the deal, Brockman required an offshore trust be set up to conceal earnings from tax authorities and avoid litigation in US courts.[31][37] Brockman also required the first fund to be located in the Cayman Islands and set aside some of the interest earned to protect him against losses.[38] According to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, Brockman's lawyer helped Smith set up the offshore entity.[39][40]

The reports state that Brockman's proposal was a "take-it-or-leave-it offer".[31][37] According to Smith's non-prosecution agreement, Brockman dictated "the unique terms and unorthodox structure to the arrangement" and he accepted the offer as a "unique business opportunity he eagerly wanted to pursue".[31][37]

In early October 2021, Smith and Brockman were both among those listed in the Pandora Papers revelation, exposing the offshore sheltering of financial assets by hundreds of politicians, businesspeople, and celebrities.[36]

Other achievements

In 2014, Smith became the founding director and president of the Fund II Foundation, which has invested in organizations such as Cornell, the National Park Foundation, and Susan G. Komen.[2][41][42] Also in 2014, Smith received an honorary doctorate from Huston-Tillotson University.[43]

In 2015, Smith sponsored the college education of all returned Boko Haram girls.[44][45]

Smith has also served as the chairman of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights,[46] on the board of overseers of Columbia Business School, as a member of the Cornell Engineering College Council,[47] on the Cornell University Tech Board,[9] and as a Trustee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco.[48] He has donated to the Sphinx Organization, which supports diversity in the arts.[49]

Smith became the board chairman of Carnegie Hall in 2016, the first African American to hold that position.[2][50]

Also that year, Cornell University named the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering after him, following a donation.[51][52] He was later recognized as a distinguished alumnus by the college.[7]

Smith was named in The Chronicle of Philanthropy's "Philanthropy 50" in 2017.[53] In May 2017, The Giving Pledge announced that Smith had joined as its first African-American signatory.[54] That year, Smith was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Denver.[55][56]

In 2018, Fund II Foundation gave a $2.7 million grant to the Louis Armstrong House Museum, and Smith has served as a board member since. This grant helped digitize Armstrong's collection to make it available to the public.[57][58]

In 2018, Smith was the largest individual donor at the City of Hope Gala, which funds prostate cancer treatment and breast cancer research for black men and women.[59] That same year, Smith donated $2.5 million to the Prostate Cancer Foundation to advance prostate cancer research among African-American men.[60] Also in 2018, Smith donated $1 million to the Cultural Performance Center at the Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park in Harlem, which was later renamed the Robert Frederick Smith Center for Performing Arts.[61]

Smith has received the Candle in Business and Philanthropy Award from Morehouse College,[62] the International Medical Corps Humanitarian of the Year Award,[63] Ebony’s John H. Johnson Award,[64] and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Chairman's Award, among others.[65][66] He was awarded an honorary doctorate of International Affairs from American University's School of International Service[67][68] and an honorary doctorate from Morehouse College.[69]

In May 2019, while at Morehouse College to receive an honorary doctorate and deliver the commencement address, he announced that he and his family would pay off the entire student loan debt of the 2019 Morehouse College graduating class of 396 students.[69][70][71][72] He had previously donated $1.5 million to the school in January 2019, to be used for scholarships and a park.[73]

In October 2019, Smith received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, which is given to individuals who have donated private wealth to the public.[74] Smith was also inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame as a Class of 2019 Legend.[75] In April 2020, Governor Greg Abbott named Smith to the Strike Force to Open Texas – a group "tasked with finding safe and effective ways to slowly reopen the state" amid the COVID-19 pandemic.[76] Smith was included on the Time 100, Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2020.[77]

In February 2022, Smith’s non-profit organization, the Student Freedom Initiative, partnered with Prudential Financial to provide up to  $1.8 million in microgrants to students of HBCUs.[78][79]

In April 2022, Smith launched the Mount Sinai Robert F. Smith Mobile Prostate Cancer Screening Bus in Harlem, New York, in partnership with Mount Sinai Hospital.[80][81]

In May 2022, Cornell University announced a $15 million donation from Robert Frederick Smith that will provide financial aid to engineering students from historically underrepresented communities. The gift will support an undergraduate scholarship fund to provide at least 7 students a year from urban high schools with up to $45,000 in grants, in addition to setting up a graduate fellowship fund to support 12 master’s students and five doctoral students who attended historically black colleges and universities.[82]

In October 2022, media outlets including TMZ,[83] Revolt TV,[84] Variety, and Vibe Magazine[85] published an article highlighting Smith being nominated by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. to serve as executive producer of a series of film and television projects titled "The GOAT" aimed to tell Mayweather's life story. Mayweather said: “As someone who owns his own brand, I can’t think of better partners than Deon (Deon Taylor), Roxanne (Roxanne Avent Taylor), Robert F. Smith — the wealthiest African American in the world — and Hidden Empire Films, a prolific Black-owned production company.”[86]

Personal life

In 1988, Smith married his first wife, fellow Cornell alum Suzanne McFayden. They divorced in 2014. Smith married Hope Dworaczyk, the founder and CEO of skincare company MUTHA, a former Playboy playmate, healthy living advocate, and fashion editor, on July 25, 2015, after she gave birth to their first child in December 2014.[87][88][89]

Smith has three children with his first wife.[90] He also has two sons and two daughters with his wife Hope.[91]

Smith owns homes in Austin, Texas, Malibu, California, New York City, Denver, and Florida.[92][10][93][94][95]

Smith partnered with Matthew Burkett to purchase the historic Lincoln Hills, Colorado property in Gilpin County and convert it into an exclusive invitation-only fly fishing club.[96] Lincoln Hills was founded in the 1920s as a destination summer resort for Black families.

See also

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robert, smith, investor, other, people, named, robert, smith, robert, smith, disambiguation, robert, frederick, smith, born, december, 1962, american, billionaire, businessman, philanthropist, founder, chairman, private, equity, firm, vista, equity, partners, . For other people named Robert F Smith see Robert F Smith disambiguation Robert Frederick Smith born December 1 1962 is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist He is the founder chairman and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners Robert SmithBornRobert Frederick Smith 1962 12 01 December 1 1962 age 60 Denver Colorado U S EducationCornell University BS Columbia University MBA Occupation s Businessman philanthropistTitleChairman amp CEO Vista Equity PartnersSpouse s Suzanne McFayden m 1988 div 2014 wbr Hope Dworaczyk m 2015 wbr Children7Websitehttps robertsmith com Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Vista Equity Partners 4 Philanthropy 5 Politics 6 Tax evasion 7 Other achievements 8 Personal life 9 See also 10 References 11 External linksEarly life EditSmith was born to Dr William Robert Smith and Dr Sylvia Myrna Smith who were both school teachers 1 He grew up in a predominantly African American middle class neighborhood in Denver Colorado 1 When he was an infant his mother apparently carried him at the March on Washington where the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr delivered his I Have a Dream speech 2 He attended Carson Elementary School and East High School 3 in Denver 1 4 In high school he applied for an internship at Bell Labs but was told the program was intended for college students Smith persisted calling each Monday for five months When a student from M I T did not show up he got the position and that summer he developed a reliability test for semiconductors 5 6 Smith earned a bachelor s degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1985 7 8 In 1994 he received his Master of Business Administration from Columbia University with concentrations in finance and marketing 1 9 10 Career EditAfter graduating from Cornell Smith worked at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Air Products amp Chemicals and later at Kraft General Foods as a chemical engineer 1 where he registered two United States and two European patents 11 From 1994 to 2000 he worked for Goldman Sachs in technology investment banking first in New York City and then in Silicon Valley 1 He advised on merger and acquisition activity with companies such as Apple and Microsoft 12 In 2018 Smith was included in Vanity Fair s New Establishment List which is an annual ranking of individuals who have made impactful business innovations 13 14 Vista Equity Partners EditIn 2000 Smith founded Vista Equity Partners a private equity and venture capital firm of which he is the principal founder chairman and chief executive 10 According to Black Enterprise magazine Smith is credited with consistently generating a 30 percent rate of return for his investors from the company s inception to 2020 15 As of 2019 Vista Equity Partners was the fourth largest enterprise software company after Microsoft Oracle and SAP including all their holdings 16 17 18 Vista has invested in companies such as STATS Ping Identity and Jio 19 20 21 As of 2019 Vista Equity Partners had closed more than 46 billion of funding 22 In 2016 Smith was named Private Equity International s Game Changer of the Year for his work with Vista 23 The 2019 PitchBook Private Equity Awards named Vista Equity Partners Dealmaker of the Year 24 Philanthropy EditOn May 19 2019 during his 2019 commencement speech at Morehouse College Smith pledged a reported 34M in student loan debt including the debt of parents and guardians incurred over the educational pursuit of each member of the 2019 graduating class 25 In a June 2020 report Time reported the launch of The Student Freedom Initiative a nonprofit led by Smith to benefit HBCU students 26 According to Forbes Smith is the first African American to sign the Giving Pledge a commitment to contribute the majority of his wealth to philanthropic causes 27 Politics EditIn December 2022 taking a stand together against increasing instances of racism and antisemitism in the US Smith joined New York City Mayor Eric Adams Reverends Al Sharpton and Conrad Tillard World Values Network founder and CEO Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Elisha Wiesel to host 15 Days of Light celebrating Hanukkah and Kwanzaa in a unifying holiday ceremony at Carnegie Hall 28 29 Smith said When we unify the souls of our two communities we can usher in light to banish the darkness of racism bigotry and antisemitism 30 Tax evasion EditIn August 2020 Bloomberg reported that Smith was facing a tax inquiry regarding a potential failure to pay U S taxes on 200 million in assets intended for U S charities that were transferred through offshore entities 31 In October 2020 Smith reached a non prosecution agreement with the United States Department of Justice DOJ agreeing to pay a fine of 139 million This agreement came alongside Smith agreeing to assist the DOJ in creating a separate case against Robert T Brockman who had been charged with hiding 2 billion in income 32 33 34 35 36 According to the DOJ Brockman the backer of Smith s first private equity fund led him to use the offshore trust that concealed income 37 According to reports in Bloomberg and The Washington Post Brockman approached Smith in the 1990s about creating a private equity fund and offered to back the initial fund 31 37 As part of the deal Brockman required an offshore trust be set up to conceal earnings from tax authorities and avoid litigation in US courts 31 37 Brockman also required the first fund to be located in the Cayman Islands and set aside some of the interest earned to protect him against losses 38 According to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times Brockman s lawyer helped Smith set up the offshore entity 39 40 The reports state that Brockman s proposal was a take it or leave it offer 31 37 According to Smith s non prosecution agreement Brockman dictated the unique terms and unorthodox structure to the arrangement and he accepted the offer as a unique business opportunity he eagerly wanted to pursue 31 37 In early October 2021 Smith and Brockman were both among those listed in the Pandora Papers revelation exposing the offshore sheltering of financial assets by hundreds of politicians businesspeople and celebrities 36 Other achievements EditIn 2014 Smith became the founding director and president of the Fund II Foundation which has invested in organizations such as Cornell the National Park Foundation and Susan G Komen 2 41 42 Also in 2014 Smith received an honorary doctorate from Huston Tillotson University 43 In 2015 Smith sponsored the college education of all returned Boko Haram girls 44 45 Smith has also served as the chairman of Robert F Kennedy Human Rights 46 on the board of overseers of Columbia Business School as a member of the Cornell Engineering College Council 47 on the Cornell University Tech Board 9 and as a Trustee of the Boys amp Girls Clubs of San Francisco 48 He has donated to the Sphinx Organization which supports diversity in the arts 49 Smith became the board chairman of Carnegie Hall in 2016 the first African American to hold that position 2 50 Also that year Cornell University named the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering after him following a donation 51 52 He was later recognized as a distinguished alumnus by the college 7 Smith was named in The Chronicle of Philanthropy s Philanthropy 50 in 2017 53 In May 2017 The Giving Pledge announced that Smith had joined as its first African American signatory 54 That year Smith was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Denver 55 56 In 2018 Fund II Foundation gave a 2 7 million grant to the Louis Armstrong House Museum and Smith has served as a board member since This grant helped digitize Armstrong s collection to make it available to the public 57 58 In 2018 Smith was the largest individual donor at the City of Hope Gala which funds prostate cancer treatment and breast cancer research for black men and women 59 That same year Smith donated 2 5 million to the Prostate Cancer Foundation to advance prostate cancer research among African American men 60 Also in 2018 Smith donated 1 million to the Cultural Performance Center at the Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park in Harlem which was later renamed the Robert Frederick Smith Center for Performing Arts 61 Smith has received the Candle in Business and Philanthropy Award from Morehouse College 62 the International Medical Corps Humanitarian of the Year Award 63 Ebony s John H Johnson Award 64 and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation s Chairman s Award among others 65 66 He was awarded an honorary doctorate of International Affairs from American University s School of International Service 67 68 and an honorary doctorate from Morehouse College 69 In May 2019 while at Morehouse College to receive an honorary doctorate and deliver the commencement address he announced that he and his family would pay off the entire student loan debt of the 2019 Morehouse College graduating class of 396 students 69 70 71 72 He had previously donated 1 5 million to the school in January 2019 to be used for scholarships and a park 73 In October 2019 Smith received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy which is given to individuals who have donated private wealth to the public 74 Smith was also inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame as a Class of 2019 Legend 75 In April 2020 Governor Greg Abbott named Smith to the Strike Force to Open Texas a group tasked with finding safe and effective ways to slowly reopen the state amid the COVID 19 pandemic 76 Smith was included on the Time 100 Time s list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020 77 In February 2022 Smith s non profit organization the Student Freedom Initiative partnered with Prudential Financial to provide up to 1 8 million in microgrants to students of HBCUs 78 79 In April 2022 Smith launched the Mount Sinai Robert F Smith Mobile Prostate Cancer Screening Bus in Harlem New York in partnership with Mount Sinai Hospital 80 81 In May 2022 Cornell University announced a 15 million donation from Robert Frederick Smith that will provide financial aid to engineering students from historically underrepresented communities The gift will support an undergraduate scholarship fund to provide at least 7 students a year from urban high schools with up to 45 000 in grants in addition to setting up a graduate fellowship fund to support 12 master s students and five doctoral students who attended historically black colleges and universities 82 In October 2022 media outlets including TMZ 83 Revolt TV 84 Variety and Vibe Magazine 85 published an article highlighting Smith being nominated by Floyd Mayweather Jr to serve as executive producer of a series of film and television projects titled The GOAT aimed to tell Mayweather s life story Mayweather said As someone who owns his own brand I can t think of better partners than Deon Deon Taylor Roxanne Roxanne Avent Taylor Robert F Smith the wealthiest African American in the world and Hidden Empire Films a prolific Black owned production company 86 Personal life EditIn 1988 Smith married his first wife fellow Cornell alum Suzanne McFayden They divorced in 2014 Smith married Hope Dworaczyk the founder and CEO of skincare company MUTHA a former Playboy playmate healthy living advocate and fashion editor on July 25 2015 after she gave birth to their first child in December 2014 87 88 89 Smith has three children with his first wife 90 He also has two sons and two daughters with his wife Hope 91 Smith owns homes in Austin Texas Malibu California New York City Denver and Florida 92 10 93 94 95 Smith partnered with Matthew Burkett to purchase the historic Lincoln Hills Colorado property in Gilpin County and convert it into an exclusive invitation only fly fishing club 96 Lincoln Hills was founded in the 1920s as a destination summer resort for Black families See also Edit Business portal United States portal Biography portalReferences Edit a b c d e f D Castle Michael July 14 2016 Black In America This Century Hurts Lulu com ISBN 978 1 365 22265 8 a b c Cooper Michael Gelles David June 2 2016 At Carnegie Hall a New Leader With a Son Named Hendrix The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved June 17 2020 Heritage Hall Inductees East Angel Friends amp Alumni Foundation Retrieved February 13 2020 Billionaire Denver native donated 20 million to new African American museum Video www bizjournals com Retrieved June 17 2020 Reeves Benjamin April 8 2015 Private Equity s Philosopher Alumni Columbia edu Retrieved October 9 2015 David Gelles April 10 2014 A Private Equity Titan With a Narrow Focus and Broad Aims The New York Times Retrieved October 9 2015 a b Mehta Alek March 1 2020 Cornell Engineering To Recognize Robert F Smith 85 With 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award The Cornell Daily Sun Retrieved June 17 2020 Najja Parker The Atlanta Journal Constitution 5 things to know about Robert F Smith Morehouse donor to pay off Class of 2019 s student loans The Atlanta Journal Constitution Retrieved June 17 2020 a b Smith 85 to receive engineering college alumni honor Retrieved June 6 2020 a b c Rogers Katie Warren Taylor Nicole Meet Robert F Smith the billionaire who s paying off student loans owns a home in Malibu and married a former Playboy model in a lavish Italian ceremony Business Insider Retrieved June 17 2020 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Marotti Ally May 20 2019 Who is Robert F Smith Before he was wiping out Morehouse College student debt he was patenting coffee brewing at Kraft chicagotribune com Retrieved June 17 2020 Gelles David May 19 2019 Who Is Robert F Smith the Man Paying Off Morehouse Graduates Loans The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved June 17 2020 100 Greatest Living Business Minds Forbes Archived from the original on September 20 2017 Retrieved May 19 2019 About Vanity Fair s New Establishment Summit Retrieved June 17 2020 Robinson Deven January 7 2021 Influential Black Entrepreneurs Robert Smith Black Enterprise Retrieved January 30 2021 Vista Equity The Biggest Software Group You ve Never Heard Of PCMAG Retrieved November 18 2018 Robert F Smith Vista Equity Partners Vista Equity Partners Retrieved March 1 2019 Vista Equity Partners to pay 1 9 billion in private equity deal for Apptio GeekWire November 12 2018 Retrieved November 18 2018 Vista Equity Partners to invest 1 5B in India s Reliance Jio Platforms TechCrunch May 8 2020 Retrieved August 24 2020 Stats LLC sold to private equity firm Crain s Chicago Business May 15 2014 Retrieved August 24 2020 Vista Equity Partners Is Acquiring Ping Identity Fortune Retrieved August 24 2020 Harmeet Kaur May 19 2019 What to know about Robert F Smith the man paying off Morehouse grads student loans CNN Retrieved August 24 2020 Mitchenall Toby March 1 2017 Vista s Smith named PEI s 2016 Game Changer Private Equity International Retrieved May 19 2019 Cover Story Robert F Smith Chairman amp CEO of Vista Equity Partners March 17 2020 Archived from the original on April 20 2020 DE LA GARZA ALEJANDRO May 19 2019 Who Is Robert F Smith Learn More About the Billionaire Whose Generosity Shocked a Graduating Class Time Magazine Reilly Katie June 23 2020 Billionaire Robert F Smith Launches New Initiative to Ease Student Debt at Historically Black Colleges Time Magazine Robert F Smith Investor 8B Forbes October 10 2022 Black and Jewish Leaders Gather at Carnegie Hall to Take a Stand Against Antisemitism and Racism Yahoo December 20 2022 Reports AmNews Staff December 21 2022 Mayor Eric Adams Rev Al Sharpton others gather for joint Kwanzaa Hanukkah celebration New York Amsterdam News Mayor Eric Adams Rev Al Sharpton Robert F Smith Robert F Smith Rev Conrad Tillard Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Elisha Wiesel join together to host 15 Days of Light celebrating Hanukkah and Kwanzaa JNS org a b c d e Voreacos David Weinberg Neil August 21 2020 Billionaire Robert Smith Fighting U S Criminal Tax Inquiry Bloomberg Jonathan Browning Retrieved August 21 2020 Voreacos David Weinberg Neil October 15 2020 Houston Tech Mogul Indicted for Largest Ever Tax Charge bloomberg com Retrieved October 17 2020 Primack Dan October 16 2020 Billionaire philanthropist Robert Smith s tax fraud roils Vista Equity Axios Retrieved October 17 2020 Rogers Taylor Nicole Read the full letter private equity titan Robert F Smith sent to investors about his 139 million tax evasion settlement Business Insider Retrieved October 17 2020 Saunders Laura October 23 2020 The IRS Reels in a Whale of an Offshore Tax Cheat and Goes for Another Wall Street Journal a b Offshore hvens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed in unprecedented leak October 3 2021 The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists retrieved October 4 2021 a b c d e Whoriskey Peter Torbati Yeganeh Alexander Keith L A dodgy deal helped make him a billionaire It worked until now The Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Retrieved November 9 2020 Weinberg Neil February 3 2021 How Billionaire Robert Smith Avoided Indictment in a Multimillion Dollar Tax Case www bloomberg com Retrieved January 31 2022 Goldstein Matthew March 12 2021 A Buyout Fund C E O Got in Tax Evasion Trouble Here s Why Investors Shrugged The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved January 31 2022 Maremont Miriam Gottfried and Mark March 3 2021 The Billionaire Behind the Biggest U S Tax Fraud Case Ever Filed Wall Street Journal ISSN 0099 9660 Retrieved January 31 2022 Robert F Smith Inside Philanthropy Retrieved November 18 2018 Now the Richest Black American He s Also One of America s Biggest Philanthropists Inside Philanthropy Retrieved November 18 2018 Austin billionaire who paid off students debt has history of giving back KXAN Austin May 20 2019 Retrieved August 24 2020 Kazeem Yomi December 28 2016 A quiet African American billionaire is offering Nigeria s rescued Chibok girls a new lease of life Quartz Africa Retrieved August 24 2020 Mark Monica November 17 2015 US tycoon helps Chibok pupils back into the classroom The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved August 24 2020 Robert Smith Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice amp Human Rights RFK Human Rights Retrieved October 9 2015 ECC Active Members 2015 PDF Engineering cornell edu Retrieved October 9 2015 Board amp Trustees Kidsclub org Retrieved October 9 2015 Robert Frederick Smith Prize Sphinx Organization Retrieved August 24 2020 Smith Jennifer June 2 2016 Carnegie Hall Names New Board Chairman Private Equity Financier Robert F Smith The Wall Street Journal Retrieved June 10 2016 Cornell names Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in recognition of the leadership of philanthropist Cornell Chronicle Casler Andrew Cornell names engineering school after alumnus The Ithaca Journal Retrieved August 24 2020 The 2017 Philanthropy 50 The Chronicle of Philanthropy 7 More U S Philanthropists Sign Giving Pledge May 30 2017 Billionaire Denverite Robert F Smith pledges to pay off student loan debt for Morehouse College class of 2019 The Denver Post May 19 2019 Retrieved August 24 2020 NEXUS Summer Program Students Dream Big in Teen Entrepreneurship Challenge University of Denver August 9 2019 Retrieved August 24 2020 Russonello Giovanni Bajar Nathan November 16 2018 Louis Armstrong s Life in Letters Music and Art The New York Times Retrieved November 18 2018 Simas Kayla October 8 2018 Louis Armstrong s unseen artifacts almost ready for public view amNewYork Retrieved August 24 2020 Warner Chappell Music CEO Jon Platt Lauded at City of Hope Gala He s the Obama of the Music Industry Billboard Retrieved November 18 2018 Billionaire Power 100 Honoree Robert F Smith Donates to Prostate Cancer EBONY EBONY January 16 2018 Retrieved November 18 2018 Pogrebin Robin October 24 2018 Riverbank s Cultural Center Renamed After 1 Million Gift The New York Times Retrieved November 18 2018 Morehouse gets two 1M gifts at anniversary gala bizjournals com Retrieved November 18 2018 AAC 2018 International Medical Corps November 6 2018 Retrieved November 18 2018 Ebony com EBONY Power 100 2017 Honoree Robert F Smith EBONY Power 100 2017 Retrieved November 18 2018 President Obama to Deliver Final Keynote at 46th ALC Phoenix Awards Dinner Congressional Black Caucus Foundation August 24 2016 Harlem Columbia Grad Billionaire Man Robert F Smith Video Harlem World Magazine May 2 2018 Retrieved August 24 2020 American University May 10 2015 SIS Commencement Speaker Robert F Smith retrieved November 18 2018 Alex Kelly March 24 2015 AU Announces 2015 Commencement Speakers American University Washington DC American University Retrieved August 24 2020 a b Emerson Bo May 19 2019 JUST IN Morehouse commencement speaker to pay off Class of 2019 s student loans The Atlanta Journal Constitution Retrieved May 19 2019 Billionaire Robert F Smith pledges to pay off Morehouse College Class of 2019 s student loans The Washington Post May 19 2019 Retrieved May 20 2019 Whack Errin Haines May 19 2019 Graduation speaker pledges to pay class of 2019 student debt Associated Press Retrieved May 19 2019 Burch Audra D S Gelles David May 19 2019 Morehouse Graduates Student Loans to Be Paid Off by Billionaire The New York Times Retrieved May 20 2019 Stirgus Eric January 18 2019 Morehouse to use 1 5 million gift on scholarships and a new park The Atlanta Journal Constitution Retrieved May 19 2019 Announcing the 2019 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Recipients Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Retrieved October 17 2019 Kendra Scott s and Robert Smith Invited to be Inducted in 2019 Texas Business Hall of Fame TBHF May 16 2019 Retrieved October 17 2019 These are the experts leaders working with Gov Abbott s strike force to reopen Texas khou com April 17 2020 Retrieved April 21 2020 Wai Jonathan Makel Matthew C November 2 2020 Why graduates of elite universities dominate the Time 100 and what it means for the rest of us The Conversation Retrieved December 7 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officially in the works Revolt TV CORRINE AMBER October 7 2022 Floyd Mayweather Will Tell His Story His Way With The GOAT Docuseries VIBE Magazine Jackson Angelique October 6 2022 Floyd Mayweather Inks Life Rights Deal With Hidden Empire Films Announces The GOAT Docuseries About Life and Career Variety Marquina Sierra Brown Brody September 28 2015 Hope Dworaczyk Smith Pregnant With Second Child Us Weekly Retrieved August 7 2018 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Alexander Keith L September 24 2016 Who is this Robert Smith A quiet billionaire makes some noise with 20 million gift to the African American museum Washington Post Retrieved August 7 2018 Salonga Bianca Inspiring Female Founders In The Beauty Industry Forbes Retrieved August 24 2020 John Caroline May 22 2019 Suzanne McFayden Wiki Facts about Billionaire Robert F Smith s Ex Wife Earn The Necklace Retrieved May 24 2019 Barnes Brooks June 17 2020 How Robert F Smith the Wealthiest Black American Is Making Change Town amp Country Retrieved December 27 2020 Forbes Staff March 1 2016 The World s Billionaires 2016 ranking 688 Robert Smith Forbes Retrieved January 5 2017 Barnes Brooks June 17 2020 How Robert F Smith the Wealthiest Black American Is Making Change townandcountrymag com Retrieved February 5 2021 Yakketyyak Yolanda May 12 2016 Real Housewives of Malibu Part 2 Yolanda Hadid Foster sells to Robert amp Hope Smith for nearly 20 million Yolanda s Little Black Book Archived from the original on June 25 2018 Toma Glenda Billionaire Robert Smith Is Buyer Of Record Breaking 59M New York Penthouse Forbes Retrieved August 24 2020 McCormick Cavanagh Conor May 22 2022 The Last Resort Lincoln Hills Has a Colorful Past and an Invitation Only Future Westword Retrieved July 19 2023 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Robert F Smith investor Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Robert F Smith investor 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