David Roux
{{Short description|American businessman, technology investor and philanthropist}}
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David Roux is an American businessman, technology investor and philanthropist. He is the managing partner of the investment firm BayPine. Previously, he co-founded Silver Lake Partners with Jim Davidson, Glenn Hutchins and Roger McNamee.
Early life and education
David Roux grew up in Lewiston, Maine, where he attended grade school and high school.{{cite news |last1=LaFlamme |first1=Mark |title=David Roux: Lewiston-born tech visionary looks to the future |url=https://www.sunjournal.com/2018/10/13/david-roux-lewiston-born-tech-visionary-looks-to-the-future/ |access-date=21 June 2024 |work=Lewiston Sun Journal |date=13 October 2018}} He graduated from Harvard College, has an M.Phil from King's College, Cambridge, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.{{cite news |last1=Boehm |first1=Matthew |title=PrefTech Secures $1.3 Million in Debt |url=https://www.citybiz.co/article/389307/preftech-secures-1-3-million-in-debt/ |access-date=21 June 2024 |work=citybiz |date=7 March 2023}}
Career
After business school, Roux founded Datext and served as its CEO before it was acquired by Lotus Software.{{cite news |last1=Serwer |first1=Andy |last2=Key |first2=Angela |title=The Deal of the Next Century The Silver Lake partners are wagering on a whole new way to invest in infotech--the biggest, baddest LBO fund ever to hit Silicon Valley. They've raised more than $2 billion in a matter of months. Can they make it work? - September 6, 1999 |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/06/265313/index.htm |access-date=21 June 2024 |work=money.cnn.com |date=6 September 1999}} He served in leadership roles at Lotus and Oracle Corporation before becoming chairman and CEO of Oracle subsidiary Liberate Technologies. In 1999, he and his associates founded Silver Lake Partners.
In 2020, Roux founded BayPine LP with Anjan Mukherjee and serves as one of its managing partners.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2021/02/12/new-boston-private-equity-firm-raises-1-1b.html|title=New Boston private equity firm raises $1.1B for first fund}}{{cite news |last1=McNeely |first1=Allison |title=Blackstone and Silver Lake Alumni Raise $2.2 Billion for Debut Fund |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/blackstone-silver-lake-alumni-raise-2-2-billion-for-debut-fund |access-date=21 June 2024 |work=www.bloomberg.com |date=8 September 2022}}
Affiliations
David has served in the boards of numerous private and public companies, including Boston Scientific,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonscientific.com/content/dam/bostonscientific-kr/corporate/News/2013%20BSC%20News/121613_Boston%20Scientific%20Elects%20David%20Roux%20To%20Its%20Board%20of%20Directors.pdf/title=|title=Boston Scientific Elects David Roux to its Board of Directors}} Symantec, Veritas Technologies, Seagate Technology, Business Objects, UGS Corp, Gartner Group, Intelsat, and Avaya, among others. He is currently chairman of The Jackson Laboratory.{{Cite web|url=https://front.jax.org/news-and-insights/2015/september/david-roux-elected-chairman-jax-board-of-trustees|title=David Roux named chairman of The Jackson Laboratory Board of Trustees|first=Joyce|last=Peterson|website=The Jackson Laboratory}} David previously served on the boards of Bowdoin College, National Audubon Society,{{Cite web|url=https://www.audubon.org/content/david-roux|title=David Roux|date=April 1, 2015|website=Audubon}} the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Philanthropy
David is chairman of the Roux Family Foundation, through which he and his wife, Barbara, support a variety of education, conservation, biomedical research, global public health and veterans organizations. In 2013, he established the Roux Prize{{Cite web|url=http://www.healthdata.org/roux-prize/purpose|title=Purpose of the Roux Prize}} to honor individuals who have used health evidence in impactful ways. In 2014, David established The Roux Family Center for Genomics and Computational Biology{{Cite web|url=http://www.technologynetworks.com/informatics/news/jax-receives-funding-for-genomics-198889|title=JAX Receives Funding for Genomics|website=Informatics from Technology Networks}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.genengnews.com/topics/omics/investors-gift-yields-10m-for-the-jackson-laboratory/|title=Investor's Gift Yields $10M for the Jackson Laboratory|first=GEN Staff|last=Writer|date=October 21, 2014}} at Jackson Laboratory. Most recently, he underwrote the construction of the Roux Center for the Environment{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressherald.com/2018/10/12/bowdoin-dedicates-roux-center-for-the-environment/|title=Bowdoin dedicates Roux Center for the Environment|first=Nathan|last=Strout|date=October 12, 2018}} which opened in 2018 at Bowdoin College.
Most recently, David and Barbara Roux have collaborated with Northeastern University to create The Roux Institute in Portland, Maine. This project was announced in January 2020 to promote regional economic development in Northern New England and will be supported by a $100 million grant from the Roux family.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sunjournal.com/2020/01/27/maine-native-puts-up-100-million-for-portland-research-center/|title=Lewiston native puts up $100 million to open Northeastern research center in Portland|first=Peter McGuirePress|last=Herald|date=January 27, 2020}}