Ravenel B. Curry III is an American businessman and philanthropist. [1] [2] [3]
Ravenel, a native of Greenwood, South Carolina, graduated from Furman University in 1963. [2] [4]
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]
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]
He married Elizabeth Rivers Curry (née Mary Elizabeth Rivers) (1941-2015) in 1963. [2] [6]
In 2017, Curry was awarded the Manhattan Institute's Alexander Hamilton Award. [15]