1. David C Bohnett was born on April 2,1956 and is an American philanthropist and technology entrepreneur.
44 Facts About David Bohnett
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David Bohnett is the founder and chairman of the David Bohnett Foundation, a non-profit, grant-making organization devoted to improving society through social activism.
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David Bohnett was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1956, and grew up in Hinsdale, an affluent Chicago suburb, with Republican parents.
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David Bohnett's father was a business executive and his mother was a preschool teacher.
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David Bohnett's sister Wendy Bohnett Campbell is a past president of the board of the Dayton Philharmonic, and his brother William is a retired corporate attorney and was on the national board of the Smithsonian Institution from 2009 to 2018.
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David Bohnett was interested in business at an early age, selling Amway products and delivering newspapers.
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David Bohnett put himself through college by waiting tables, guiding tours at Universal Studios, and other service jobs.
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David Bohnett did however receive $386,000 from Schrader's life insurance.
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David Bohnett had been a staff information systems consultant at Arthur Andersen from 1980 to 1983 and, unable to be openly gay in that world, he had left to work at software companies instead.
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David Bohnett went public in 1998, nearly doubling its initial share price in its first day of trading; Bohnett used the increased funding to add various features including a search engine, numerous tools and templates which made page creation easy and which completely bypassed any need for HTML coding, and social tools which made it easy to interact.
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David Bohnett has become actively involved in many of Baroda's investment vehicles.
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David Bohnett has been a board member of NCR Corporation.
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David Bohnett created the David Bohnett Foundation, "a nonprofit grant-making organization focused on providing resources for organizations pursuing societal change and social justice through activism", with an initial endowment of $32million.
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The David Bohnett Foundation is devoted to improving society through community-building and social activism, and it provides funding, state-of-the-art technology, and technical support to relevant innovative organizations and institutions.
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David Bohnett was a founding member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
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David Bohnett focused its strategy on lobbying entertainment and media companies to produce positive representations of gays.
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David Bohnett has been a trustee of amfAR since 2006, and was honored with an amfAR Award of Courage in 2006.
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David Bohnett was vice chairman of the LA Phil from 2013 to late 2015, and is currently on the orchestra's board of directors.
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David Bohnett has been a champion of the LA Phil's Youth Orchestra Los Angeles since its inception.
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In December 2014, David Bohnett donated $20million to the LA Philharmonic.
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In 2015, the David Bohnett bequest co-funded a first-of-its-kind virtual reality mobile four-minute concert performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, housed in a van and featuring an immersive experience of Dudamel conducting the symphony, which toured for two months to communities and young people who do not usually come to the Walt Disney Concert Hall; the VAN Beethoven experience was made available as a free app called Orchestra VR in the Oculus Rift and Samsung VR app stores.
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David Bohnett is a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and made a major gift to LACMA to name its Ahmanson Building atrium the David Bohnett Foundation Atrium.
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From 2001 through 2014, the David Bohnett Foundation donated $8.8million to LACMA.
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David Bohnett is the former board chairman, and the current chairman of the executive committee, of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
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In 2012 he was appointed by President Barack Obama as a trustee of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and in 2015 the David Bohnett Foundation donated $5million to the Kennedy Center for its Expansion Project.
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David Bohnett is a founding supporter of the Southampton Arts Center.
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David Bohnett is on the board of trustees of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
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David Bohnett was executive producer of the 2005 documentary Little Man, about a micro-preemie boy who was born 100 days too early and weighed only one pound at birth.
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David Bohnett made a major financial contribution to the 2007 documentary For the Bible Tells Me So, about homosexuality and its perceived conflict with Christianity.
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David Bohnett was the executive producer of Political Animals, a 2016 documentary about the struggles of openly gay politicians.
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David Bohnett co-funded and co-sponsored the drive to continue the manufacture of peel-apart instant film.
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David Bohnett was on the board of trustees of the Brookings Institution.
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David Bohnett was on the board of directors of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, and is currently on the board of trustees of the University of Southern California.
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In 2016 David Bohnett donated $15million to the USC Village at the University of Southern California.
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David Bohnett is a co-founder of the Lake Agawam Conservation Association in Southampton, New York, dedicated to rehabilitation of Lake Agawam and promoting environmentally sensitive riparian stewardship.
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David Bohnett has supported major initiatives and donations to boost openly gay political leadership.
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David Bohnett has made numerous personal political donations at a state level in California politics.
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David Bohnett was among the top 40 donors to California politics from 2001 through 2011.
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David Bohnett has advocated for the FCC's 2016 proposal to implement open technologies for the current set-top box technologies, which would break the corporate monopoly on cable and satellite companies' high-priced and controlled content of television programming and other video content.
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David Bohnett was named a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles for the 1999 to 2000 academic year.
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An accomplished bridge player, David Bohnett achieved Life Master status in 2008 at a national bridge tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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David Bohnett is an active outdoor enthusiast, having competed in numerous 5K and 10K races, and the 2008 Breath of Life Ventura Triathlon.
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David Bohnett is an avid art collector, specializing in modern and contemporary art.
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David Bohnett collects pieces that operate on the intersection between art and technology.