Ravenel B. Curry III is an American businessman and philanthropist.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

Ravenel, a native of Greenwood, South Carolina, graduated from Furman University in 1963.[2][4]

Career

Curry began his investment career as a security analyst at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. He was also partner at H.C. Wainwright as well as a Portfolio Manager of The Duke Endowment.[5] Curry is currently the President and CIO of Eagle Capital Management, an investment management firm headquartered in New York City which he co-Founded with his late wife Beth Curry in 1988.[1][6][3][7]

Philanthropy

He sits on the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, The Duke Endowment, the New York Hall of Science, the New-York Historical Society, the Genetics Endowment of South Carolina, the Blanton-Peale Institute (named for Norman Vincent Peale), and his alma mater, Furman University.[1][3][8][9][10][11] He has previously served as President of the Furman University Alumni Board and as Chair of the New Jersey Higher Education Assistance Authority.[12] He is a Trustee Emeritus of Success Academy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[13]

In 2004, he donated US$1 million to support the Chinese Studies program at Furman University, and, in 2023, he donated US$10 million to support the renovation of Furman University's basketball arena.[14][2]

He and Beth Curry founded the Ravenel and Elizabeth Curry Foundation, which made major contributions to Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medical College and Queens University of Charlotte, N.C.[6]

Personal life

He married Elizabeth Rivers Curry (née Mary Elizabeth Rivers) (1941-2015) in 1963.[2][6]

In 2017, Curry was granted the Manhattan Institute’s Alexander Hamilton Award.[15]

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