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Thomas Fahr "Tom" Steyer (born June 27, 1957) is an American hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and environmentalist. Steyer is the founder and former Co-Senior Managing Partner of Farallon Capital Management, LLC and the co-founder of Beneficial State Bank, an Oakland-based community development bank.〔 Steyer is responsible for funding the creation of the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy at Stanford University, part of the Precourt Institute of Energy. Since 1986, he has been a partner and member of the Executive Committee at Hellman & Friedman, a San Francisco-based $8 billion private equity firm. Farallon Capital Management, LLC, manages $20 billion in capital for institutions and high-net-worth individuals. The firm’s institutional investors are primarily college endowments and foundations.〔〔http://www.hf.com/team/Team.aspx?membercode=tSteyer〕 In 2010, Steyer and his wife signed the Giving Pledge to donate half their fortune to charity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=40 billionaires pledge to give away half of wealth )〕 Steyer is on the board of Next Generation, a non-profit that intends to tackle children's issues and the environment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thomas F. Steyer profile )〕 He serves on the Board of Trustees at Stanford University〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=University Governance )〕 and is active in political campaign fundraising. ==Early life and education== Steyer was born in New York City in 1957. His mother, Marnie (née Fahr), was a teacher of remedial reading at the Brooklyn House of Detention, and his father, Roy Henry Steyer, was a partner in the New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell.〔(New York Times: "Kathryn Taylor Weds T.F. Steyer" ) August 17, 1986〕 His mother was Episcopalian and his father Jewish (a member of the Reform Jewish Congregation Emanu-El of New York).〔(New York Times: "Paid Notice: Deaths STEYER, ROY H." )''New York Times'', June 26, 1997〕 He attended the Buckley School, Philips Exeter Academy and graduated from Yale University ''summa cum laude'' in economics and political science and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was captain of the Yale soccer team. Steyer received his MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The World's Billionaires )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Steyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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