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Biography
Ravenel B. Curry III is an American businessman and philanthropist.
Biography
Early life
He graduated from Furman University in 1963.
Career
He is the President of Eagle Capital Management, an investment management firm headquartered in New York City which he co-Founded with Beth Curry.
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. In 2004, he donated US$1 million to support the Chinese Studies program at Furman University. He and Beth Curry founded the Ravenel and Elizabeth Curry Foundation, which made major contributions to Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medical College and the Queen University of Charlotte, N.C.
Personal life
He married Elizabeth Rivers Curry (née Mary Elizabeth Rivers) (1941-2015) in 1963.