Ted Waitt, founder and Chairman of Gateway, Inc, helped revolutionize how people use technology to live, work, and play through pioneering the direct marketing of personal computers. Labeled a maverick by national business publications, he has gone on to form two enterprises that are his chief interests: Avalon, Inc., a wholly-owned, billion dollar private investment company with diverse interests in technology, health care, finance, and real estate; the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention, whose main focus is to support violence prevention initiatives, and the Waitt Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the improvement of mankind’s knowledge through historical and scientific exploration.
Ted serves as the Chairman of the Founding Fathers campaign of the Family Violence Prevention Fund, just one of the efforts that he supports in the fight to prevent domestic violence. The Waitt Family Foundation has donated more than $35 million since its founding 10 years ago.
