Tricia Raikes is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the co-founder and co-president of the Raikes Foundation, and has held this position since 2002. Her husband is

Jeff Raikes Jeffrey Scott Raikes (born May 29, 1958) is the co-founder of the Raikes Foundation. He retired from his role as the chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2014. He serves on the boards of Giving Tech Labs, Hudl, Co ...

, former CEO of the

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Gates Foundation is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the third largest charitable foundation in the world, holding $ ...

Career

Prior to co-founding the Raikes Foundation, Raikes was Director of Creative Services and Marketing Communications at

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

. She holds a position on the board of directors for the

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for

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, and

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state. Additionally, Raikes serves on the board of directors for the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the

University of Nebraska–Lincoln The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the M ...

with her husband

. She has held other leadership roles, working with Stanford University’s Task Force on Undergraduate Education, and serving the United Way of King County as the co-chair of their 2006-2007 campaign. Additionally, Raikes has served on boards for the Washington State University Foundation and the King County Boys & Girls Club. Tricia has been recognized as one of the

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's Women of Influence in 2007, named the 2012

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Humanitarian Superhero, and selected as one of the White House's Champions of Change for her work addressing youth homelessness.

References

External links

Raikes Foundation
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