My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.
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Philanthropy is in the DNA of my family.
I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.
Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.
My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento... and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.
I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.
I have a production company,; I have a foundation. I have a lot of responsibilities. Not family - just a lot of responsibilities.
My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.
When I was growing up, I was regularly involved in local activities such as food collections, food kitchens, and other initiatives.
I'll get involved in philanthropy.
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