Bill Gates

Bill Gates is chair of the Gates Foundation and founder of Breakthrough Energy and TerraPower. In 1975, he cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen, and today he is chair of the Gates Foundation. Gates is also the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies, and TerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies.

At Breakthrough Energy, Gates is putting his experience as an innovator and problem-solver to work to address climate change by supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, big thinkers and clean technologies. He uses his experience partnering with global leaders across sectors to help drive the policy, market and technological changes required for a clean energy transition.

Through his private office, Gates Ventures, he focuses on Alzheimer’s research and other issues such as healthcare, interdisciplinary education and technology. Gates has three children.