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Paul G. Allen
Founder and Chairman of the Board, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
Investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen creates and advances world-class projects and high-impact initiatives that change and improve the way people live, learn, work, and experience the world through arts, education, entertainment, sports, business, and technology. He co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, remained the company's chief technologist until he left in 1983, and is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc.
Allen's multibillion dollar investment portfolio includes diverse holdings in real estate, technology, media, and other companies. In 2004 Allen funded SpaceShipOne, the first privately backed effort to successfully put a civilian in suborbital space and winner of the Ansari X-Prize competition. Allen also owns the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League, the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association, and is part of the primary ownership group for the Seattle Sounders FC, Seattle's Major League Soccer team.
With lifetime giving exceeding $1 billion, Allen has been named one of the top philanthropists in America. Allen's philanthropy takes many forms. His family foundation, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, supports nonprofits working to strengthen communities in the Pacific Northwest. In 2003, Allen contributed $75 million to create the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a research facility dedicated to performing innovative basic research on the brain and disseminating its discoveries to researchers around the world. In 2006 the Allen Institute completed its inaugural project, the Allen Brain Atlas, a Web-based, three-dimensional map of gene expression in the mouse brain. Detailing more than 21,000 genes at the cellular level, the Atlas, which is freely accessible online, continues to lead scientists to new insights and propel the field of neuroscience dramatically forward.
Allen is also founder of Experience Music Project, Seattle's critically acclaimed interactive music museum; the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame; the Flying Heritage Collection, an assemblage of rare World War II aircraft restored to flying condition and shared with the public; and Vulcan Productions, the independent film production company behind several PBS series, including This Emotional Life, Evolution, the Emmy Award-winning Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge; and the Peabody Award-winning Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, The Blues, executive-produced by Martin Scorsese in conjunction with Allen and Jo Lynn Allen and the the award-winning feature Hard Candy.
Learn more about Allen online at www.paulallen.com.
Jo Lynn Allen
Co-Founder and President, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
Jo Lynn Allen is president and CEO of Vulcan Inc., the project and investment management firm she co-founded with investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen, in 1986. Since then, she has developed and led a wide range of Mr. Allen's business and charitable endeavors around the world.
Ms. Allen's responsibilities also include serving as president of Vulcan Productions, the film production company behind such acclaimed projects as This Emotional Life, Hard Candy; Far From Heaven; the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge; the Evolution series on PBS; The Blues, executive-produced by Martin Scorsese in conjunction with Ms. Allen and Paul Allen; and the Peabody Award-winning Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.
Ms. Allen is Co-Founder and President of The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, which builds strong communities and supports vulnerable populations throughout the Pacific Northwest. In addition, Ms. Allen is President of the Board of Seattle's Experience Music Project, the critically acclaimed music museum, and the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. She serves as vice chair of First & Goal, Inc., and is on the board of Charter Communications.
An active member of the arts and education communities, Ms. Allen also serves on the boards of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and the Seattle Seahawks Charitable Foundation. Ms. Allen previously served on the boards of the Theatre Communications Group, the University of Washington Foundation, the Museum of Glass, and the Los Angeles International Film Festival.
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