15 Facts About Mitchell Rales

Mitchell P Rales was born on August 1956 and is an American businessman, art collector, and philanthropist.

Mitchell Rales founded Danaher Corporation in 1984 with his brother Steven Rales and is the chairman of its executive committee.

Mitchell Rales was born in August 1956 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, where he graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 1974.

Mitchell Rales was a captain of their football and baseball teams.

Mitchell Rales earned a degree in business administration at Miami University in 1978 and was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

In 1979, Mitchell Rales left his father's real estate firm to found Equity Group Holdings with his brother, Steven Mitchell Rales.

Mitchell Rales later ended the bid after five months with a profit of $60 million.

Mitchell Rales is a majority shareholder of Fortive and served on their board of directors from July 2016 to June 2021.

In 2023, Mitchell Rales was a part of an investment group led by Josh Harris that reached an agreement to purchase the Washington Commanders, an American football team belonging to the National Football League, for $6.05 billion.

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.

Mitchell Rales is Jewish and is one of four sons of Ruth and Norman Mitchell Rales.

Mitchell Rales married his second wife, Emily Wei, in 2008.

Mitchell Rales is the president of the National Gallery of Art and serves as chairman of the board of Enovis and ESAB.

Mitchell Rales is a former board member of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Mitchell Rales signed the Giving Pledge in 2019, with his net worth being estimated by Forbes in April 2023 to be 5.6 billion.