Fisher donates heavily to his alma mater Stanford and has a professorship there. Their three sons continue to manage the business. [4][5] He is a 1979 graduate of Princeton University, where he received a bachelor's degree[4] and a 1984 graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, from which he earned a master's degree in Business Administration. [5][6], He was a non-executive director of Vodafone from 1999–2000. As of January 2018, Fisher has a net worth of US$1.85 billion. He chairs Gap's board and is managing director of the Fisher family's investment firm, Pisces Inc. ADMISSION TO THE Forbes 400 this year required a $1.7 billion net worth, nearly 10% higher than last year’s then-record $1.55 billion—a cost too dear for 31 now-former members of this most exclusive club. He spent his childhood in the then-middle-class Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco, He graduated from Lowell High School in 1946, and then in 1951, graduated with a B.S. Bill's parents Doris and Don (d. 2009) founded retailer Gap in San Francisco in 1969. [4] In 2001, he founded the London-based private equity firm Manzanita Capital and serves as its CEO.
"[1] The store sold Levi's jeans as well as records and tapes in order to capture the 12-to-25-year-old target market. Fisher was born in San Francisco, California to a Jewish family, the eldest of three sons of Aileen (née Emanuel) and Sydney Fisher, a cabinetmaker.
"Fishers to Partner With SFMOMA on Art Collection", "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement", "Bay Area's generous California Hall of Famers", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald_Fisher&oldid=979009971, Businesspeople from the San Francisco Bay Area, Short description is different from Wikidata, Infobox person using certain parameters when dead, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2015, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2017, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 September 2020, at 06:52. [7] He was also a contributor to Teach For America, GreatSchools.net, and EdVoice, a statewide coalition of California business leaders and others who support education reform. In 2019, it was revealed that Doris together with her sons Robert J. Fisher, William S. Fisher, and John J. Fisher had donated nearly $9 million to a dark money group which opposed Barack Obama in the 2012 election. [15], For the long serving character in Home and Away, see, "Don Fisher, 1928–2009 - Gap Inc. All Rights Reserved. The New Jersey Senator’s donors include director Steven Spielberg, hedge fund titan Bill Ackman and Salesforce founder Marc Benioff. [2] He spent his childhood in the then-middle-class Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco,[1] He graduated from Lowell High School[1] in 1946,[citation needed] and then in 1951, graduated with a B.S. [12], One day after the San Francisco Chronicle article on the SFMOMA partnership, the Chronicle reported that Fisher died of cancer at home on Sunday morning, September 27, 2009. [4] Fisher served as the president of the Gap's international division and is credited with expanding the company into Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
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[1] Fisher served as CEO until 1995, Chairman of the Board until 2004, and as company director and Chairman Emeritus until his death. Donald George Fisher (September 3, 1928 – September 27, 2009) was an American businessman and philanthropist.
He has been a director of Gap Inc. since 2009, and the founder and chief executive officer of Manzanita Capital Limited. Or is it symptomatic of a lack of concern for outside shareholders and expert governance? The museum, if it had been built, would have been larger than the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The son of Gap Inc. founders Donald Fisher and Doris F. Fisher, William Fisher has been involved with the company as a board member or employee for nearly 30 years. [1], Fisher was born to a Jewish family,[3] is the son of Doris Feigenbaum Fisher and Don Fisher, the co-founders of Gap, Inc. Currently, Mr. Fisher occupies the position of Chairman of Pisces Fund (California) and Managing Partner at Manzanita Capital Ltd. Mr. Fisher is also on the board of 6 other companies. He is an alumnus of the Theta Zeta chapter of the national fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon.