Puget Sound Business Journal

Jeff Raikes Talks About First Year as Gates Foundation CEO
August 21, 2009

August 20, 2009, The Seattle Times — Jeff Raikes has kept a pretty low profile in his first year as chief executive of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The man who built Microsoft Office now runs the largest private foundation in the world, which gives out more than $3 billion a year from an endowment of $30 billion.