1. Mitchell P Rales was born on August 1956 and is an American businessman and art curator.
19 Facts About Mitchell Rales
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Mitchell Rales co-founded Danaher Corporation with his brother Steven Rales in 1984 and the art museum Glenstone with his wife Emily Wei in 2006.
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Mitchell Rales was born in August 1956 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Mitchell Rales graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 1974, where he was captain of their football and baseball teams.
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Mitchell Rales earned a degree in business administration at Miami University in 1978 and was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
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In 1979, Mitchell Rales left his father's real estate firm to found Equity Group Holdings with his brother, Steven Mitchell Rales.
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Mitchell Rales later ended the bid after five months with a profit of $60 million.
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Mitchell Rales is a majority shareholder of Fortive, which split off from Danaher in 2016, and served on their board of directors until June 2021.
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Mitchell Rales had previously been fined $850,000 by the US Department of Justice in 1991 for violating the same act after buying Interco.
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In July 2023, Mitchell Rales became the top limited partner in a group headed by Josh Harris that acquired the National Football League team Washington Commanders for $6.05 billion.
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Mitchell Rales considered the opportunity to be "humbling", as he grew up a fan of the team and frequently attended home games at RFK Stadium.
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Mitchell Rales had owned the land since 1986 and had previously made it his residence.
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Mitchell Rales donated $1.9 billion to the Glenstone Foundation in 2021, increasing the museum's asset value to $4.6 billion, nearly the same as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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From 2019 to 2024, Mitchell Rales was president of the National Gallery of Art, being succeeded by Darren Walker.
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Mitchell Rales is Jewish and is one of four sons of Norman and Ruth Mitchell Rales.
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Mitchell Rales married his second wife, Emily Wei, in 2008.
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Mitchell Rales was the president of the National Gallery of Art from 2019 to 2024, and is chairman of the board of ESAB.
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Mitchell Rales is a former board member of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and retired as chair of Enovis in 2023.
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Mitchell Rales signed The Giving Pledge in 2019, with his net worth being estimated by Forbes in April 2025 to be $4.1 billion.