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- Raul J. Fernandez (born c. 1966 in Washington, D.C.) is an entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and strategic partner. He is the Vice Chairman and Owner of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, as well as a Special Advisor to General Atlantic Partners. In 1991, he founded, took public and later sold Proxicom (NASDAQ: PXCM), an internet development and e-business consulting company, to Dimension Data at a transaction valued at $450 million. Fernandez serves as a Director for Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO), DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), GameStop (NYSE: GME), InSite, PerfectSense Digital, SyncThink, URBANEER, and was previously a Director from 2001-2017 and Chairman of the Compensation Committee for Kate Spade & Company before they were sold to Tapestry (NYSE: TPR) in July 2017. He is a current Chairman of the Board for RemoteRetail, and ObjectVideo, a technology company sold to Alarm.com in 2017, and named a 2005 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. Fernandez, a native Washingtonian, is an active philanthropist in D.C. regional nonprofits, focusing his energy primarily on educational reform. In 2000 he co-founded Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP), a philanthropic investment organization based in Washington, DC. Mr. Fernandez is a board member of DC College Access Program (DC-CAP), the DC Public Education Fund, and the Fernandez Foundation, and was previously the Chairman of Fight for Children. (en)
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- Raul J. Fernandez (born c. 1966 in Washington, D.C.) is an entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and strategic partner. He is the Vice Chairman and Owner of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, as well as a Special Advisor to General Atlantic Partners. In 1991, he founded, took public and later sold Proxicom (NASDAQ: PXCM), an internet development and e-business consulting company, to Dimension Data at a transaction valued at $450 million. Fernandez serves as a Director for Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO), DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), GameStop (NYSE: GME), InSite, PerfectSense Digital, SyncThink, URBANEER, and was previously a Director from 2001-2017 and Chairman of the Compensation Committee for Kate Spade & Company before they were sold to Tapestry (NYSE: TPR) in July 2017. He is a current Chairma (en)
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