1. Steven M Rales was born on March 31,1951 and is an American businessman and film producer.
11 Facts About Steven Rales
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Steven Rales founded Danaher Corporation with his brother Mitchell Rales in 1984 and is its chairman.
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Steven Rales's father was raised in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York and later became a businessman in Washington, DC credited for enacting the first employee stock ownership plan transaction in US history.
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Steven Rales's father was a philanthropist, founding the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation and the Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service.
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In 1969, Steven Rales graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland.
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In 2008, Steven Rales engineered the initial public offering of the company.
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Steven Rales founded the film production company Indian Paintbrush in 2006.
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Steven Rales has earned three Academy Award nominations for his work with Anderson, winning Best Live Action Short Film for The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar at the 96th Academy Awards.
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Steven Rales was married to Christine Plank from 1983 to 2003.
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Steven Rales married Lalage Damerell in 2012, the mother of writer and former CIA officer Amaryllis Fox Kennedy.
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Steven Rales was a major donor in the 2002 dedication of the Peeler Art Center at DePauw.