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Jeffrey Scott Raikes (born May 29, 1958) is the co-founder of the Raikes Foundation. He retired from his role as the chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2014.[1] He serves on the boards of Giving Tech Labs,[2] Hudl,[3] Costco Wholesale,[4] the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln,[5] and the Microsoft Alumni Network. He is chair of the Stanford University board of trustees.[6] Until early 2008, Raikes was the president of the Microsoft Business Division and oversaw the Information Worker, Server & Tools Business and Microsoft Business Solutions Groups.[7] He joined Microsoft in 1981 as a product manager.[7] He retired from Microsoft in September 2008, after a transitional period, to join the Gates Foundation.[8]

Key Information

Early life

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Raikes grew up in Ashland, Nebraska, graduating from Ashland-Greenwood High School in 1976. Raikes prepared to work for the US Department of Agriculture on agricultural policy while earning his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering-economics systems from Stanford University.[9] It was while at Stanford that Raikes had his first exposure to computing, learning Pascal on a DEC System 20. The first computer he bought was an Apple II, which he used to help his brother, Ron Raikes, manage the family farm.[citation needed]

Career

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He joined Apple Computer as the VisiCalc Engineering Manager in 1980. He worked at Apple for fifteen months before being recruited to Microsoft by Steve Ballmer in 1981 as a product manager. He was promoted to director of applications marketing in 1984 and was the chief strategist behind Microsoft's investments in graphical applications for the Apple Macintosh and the Microsoft Windows operating system. In this role, he drove the product strategy and design of Microsoft Office. Raikes was promoted to vice president of Office Systems, where he was responsible for development and marketing of word processing, workgroup applications and pen computing.[7]

Raikes later held roles managing North American operations, and worldwide sales, marketing, and services. In 2000, he was appointed to lead Productivity and Business Services, which later became the Information Worker business at Microsoft. He was named a company president in 2005.[citation needed]

On May 12, 2008, it was announced that Raikes would replace Patty Stonesifer as the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;[10] he stepped down in favor of Susan Desmond-Hellmann on May 1, 2014.[11][12]

Sporting ventures

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In 1992 the Pacific Northwest was in danger of losing the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball franchise. Raikes joined with other local business leaders to purchase the team, keeping them "safe at home" for the enjoyment of Northwest baseball fans.[13]

Philanthropy

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Raikes has a wide range of philanthropic interests. He and his wife are co-founders of the Raikes Foundation. He is a trustee at the University of Nebraska Foundation, funded a professorship in agronomy, and was a designer of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. He has been active in United Way for several years. In 2006–2007, he co-chaired the annual campaign of United Way of King County with his wife, setting a national record for funds raised.[citation needed]

Raikes is a major donor to the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University where he also established the Jeff and Tricia Raikes Undergraduate Scholarship Fund to ensure that students admitted to Stanford from rural and inner-city schools have an opportunity to attend the university. He was selected as a trustee of the university in 2012 and in 2017 was elected chair.[9][11]

In June 2008, Raikes donated approximately $10 million to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's JD Edwards Honors Program, which officially changed its name to the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management shortly thereafter.[14]

In July 2017, Jeff Raikes and his wife Tricia Raikes inspired the creation of Giving Tech Labs and joined their board.[citation needed]

Personal life

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Raikes and his wife, Tricia Raikes née McGinnis, have three children: Michaela, Connor, and Gillian.[citation needed]

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Jeffrey Scott Raikes (born May 29, 1958) is an American philanthropist and former technology executive recognized for his leadership in and . After a brief role at Apple Computer, he joined in 1981 as a and rose through executive ranks, including as group of and by 1996 and president of the Microsoft Business Division from 2005 to 2008, where he oversaw the development and commercialization of the suite, a cornerstone of the company's dominance. In 2008, Raikes transitioned to as of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a position he held until 2014, directing efforts to advance equity in education, health, and poverty alleviation worldwide through targeted grantmaking and partnerships. He co-founded the Raikes Foundation in 2002 with his wife, Tricia Raikes, to support youth empowerment, postsecondary success, and foster system reforms in the , reflecting a commitment to data-driven social impact over his 27-year corporate tenure.

Early Life and Education

Childhood and Family Background

Jeffrey Scott Raikes was born on May 29, 1958, as the youngest of five children to and Alice Raikes in . His father, , had earlier worked as a , while his mother, Alice, taught junior high school and remained involved with the family property after retirement. The family resided on a 3,000-acre farm north of Ashland, a in eastern characterized by agricultural operations and limited urban influences. Raikes' upbringing immersed him in the demands of farm life, where he learned practical skills early, including driving a at age 7 and performing evening and weekend labor by age 9. His older brother, Ron—the second of the five siblings—later managed the , reflecting a division of roles among the children that exposed Raikes to hands-on and in a setting without inherited wealth. This environment emphasized tangible productivity and resource management, fostering familiarity with rural economic realities such as crop cycles, machinery maintenance, and family labor contributions.

Academic and Extracurricular Activities

Raikes enrolled at in the mid-1970s after growing up on a in , initially intending to pursue studies related to . His interests shifted toward the emerging field of personal computing during his undergraduate years. He earned a degree in engineering-economic systems in 1980, a program that integrated engineering principles, economics, and to address complex decision-making problems in technology and organizations. This interdisciplinary coursework provided foundational analytical and quantitative skills applicable to business and technological innovation, aligning with his subsequent career trajectory in . Public records indicate limited details on specific extracurricular involvements, though Raikes later reflected that his Stanford experience broadened his perspectives on social issues, including race and equity, contributing to personal growth amid diverse campus interactions. No verified roles in organizations or participation in protests during his tenure are documented in available sources.

Professional Career

Early Career and Microsoft Tenure

Jeff Raikes joined in 1981 as its first for , focusing on marketing strategies for early productivity tools amid the shift toward personal computing. In this role, he prioritized graphical user interfaces, recognizing the limitations of text-based spreadsheets like and advocating for visual, intuitive applications compatible with emerging platforms such as the Apple Macintosh and later Windows. This approach stemmed from practical analysis of user needs for accessible tools that leveraged hardware advances, driving initial adoption in business environments where spreadsheets and word processors replaced manual processes. Promoted to director of applications marketing in 1984, Raikes shaped the strategy for integrating disparate tools into a cohesive suite, culminating in the development of as a bundled product launched in 1990 for Macintosh and 1992 for Windows. He oversaw the bundling of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, emphasizing to enhance workflow efficiency over standalone sales, which addressed competitive pressures from and by offering superior cross-application data sharing. By 1990, Raikes advanced to of Office Systems, where he refined these integrations, contributing to Office's as graphical computing standardized. In 1992, Raikes became group vice president of the Worldwide and , managing global marketing and service until 2000, when he returned to product leadership to expand productivity applications. He was appointed president of the Business Division (MBD) around 2000, overseeing , Dynamics, and server tools, which grew the division's annual revenue to over $16 billion by the mid-2000s through enterprise licensing and versioning strategies. Under his tenure, expanded its user base from niche adoption in the early to more than 450 million daily users by 2006, reflecting sustained growth via compatibility with Windows ecosystems and focus on business productivity metrics like reduced training costs from unified interfaces. This expansion was grounded in iterative feedback loops from enterprise pilots, prioritizing scalable software architectures over fragmented alternatives.

Leadership at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Jeff Raikes was appointed of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on September 2, 2008, succeeding , with personally selecting him for the role based on his executive experience in scaling operations. Raikes managed an endowment valued at approximately $37 billion upon his arrival, overseeing annual grantmaking exceeding $3 billion focused on priorities like infectious disease eradication and domestic improvements. His leadership emphasized data-driven grant allocation, partnering with entities such as and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to amplify impact through leveraged funding. In , Raikes directed substantial resources toward , including an in 2010 urging G8 leaders to sustain commitments amid a critical juncture, and support for a 2013 six-year plan targeting a polio-free world by 2018 via intensified drives. These efforts contributed to vaccinating over 2.5 billion children globally since 2000 through foundation-backed campaigns, correlating with a 99% reduction in annual cases from 350,000 in 1988 to fewer than 500 by 2013. Empirical tracking shows causal links between increased dosing in endemic areas—like , where foundation advocacy helped reverse setbacks—and case declines, though residual transmission persists due to factors such as conflict and beyond funding inputs. Education reform grants under Raikes prioritized teacher effectiveness, funding pilots like the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project starting in 2009, which tested evaluation systems combining classroom observations, student surveys, and test-based metrics across multiple districts. A subsequent RAND evaluation of related Intensive Partnerships (2011–2016, initiated during his tenure) found implementation of these systems but no statistically significant improvements in student achievement or access to effective teachers beyond concurrent statewide reforms. Over $200 million invested yielded insights into measurement challenges, such as observer reliability issues, but highlighted limited causal efficacy in altering outcomes, prompting later foundation shifts away from such top-down models.

Post-Retirement Business Roles

Following his tenure as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2008 to 2014, Jeff Raikes maintained significant involvement in corporate governance through various board positions, leveraging his executive experience from to influence strategic decisions in retail, resource management, and . One key role was his directorship at Wholesale Corporation, which he joined in December 2008 and continues to hold, contributing to board oversight during periods of intense retail sector competition from giants and discounters. Raikes' background in scaling software businesses informed his perspectives on and global expansion, as evidenced by his public defense of Costco's initiatives in early 2025 amid broader corporate reevaluations of such policies. Raikes also served on the Board of Trustees from 2012 to May 2022, ascending to chair in 2017 and holding that position until 2021, where he guided institutional strategy amid evolving higher education challenges like funding models and technological integration. His leadership emphasized support for interdisciplinary programs, drawing on his and to address governance in a competitive academic landscape. In a more recent development, Raikes joined the board of Lumen Bioscience as an in October 2025, bolstering the Seattle-based biotech firm's efforts in developing microbial therapeutics for gastrointestinal diseases through oral biologics platforms. This appointment followed Lumen's $30 million Series C extension funding and aligns with Raikes' expertise in large-scale operations, as demonstrated at and , to support clinical pipeline advancement in precision medicine.

Involvement in Sporting Ventures

In 1992, Jeff Raikes and his wife Tricia joined a consortium of Seattle-area business leaders, including Nintendo's , to purchase the Seattle Mariners franchise for $100 million, preventing its relocation amid financial distress under prior owner . Raikes acquired a minority ownership stake motivated by a desire to retain professional baseball in the , where the team had struggled with attendance and profitability since its inception. Raikes has remained an active minority owner, serving on the Mariners' through ownership transitions, including the 2016 sale of majority control to John Stanton at a $1.2 billion valuation, which diluted but preserved stakes like Raikes'. The investment's merits are evident in the franchise's value escalation to $2.2 billion by 2025, yielding a nominal 22-fold return driven by MLB's expanding media rights, stadium renovations, and league-wide revenue growth. Recent financials underscore profitability, with $379 million in annual revenue and $43 million operating income, bolstered by T-Mobile Park's upgrades and regional broadcasting deals despite mid-market constraints. Risks in such ventures include volatility from on-field performance—evident in the Mariners' sporadic success (e.g., 1995 AL pennant, 2001 record-tying 116 wins, but frequent sub-.500 seasons)—which can erode attendance and sponsorships, alongside MLB's revenue-sharing penalties for high spenders. The group's restrained payroll strategy, ranking mid-tier among MLB clubs, has drawn criticism for prioritizing over contention, potentially amplifying long-term risks like talent exodus or fan disengagement; yet, this has sustained steady profits without the debt burdens seen in aggressive-spending franchises, affirming sports ownership's appeal as an appreciating asset class over pure operational yields.

Philanthropy

Founding and Focus of Raikes Foundation

The Raikes Foundation was co-founded in 2002 by Jeffrey Raikes and his wife Tricia Raikes, both former executives, with an initial emphasis on providing youth with tools for self-sufficiency and addressing children's issues in the . The organization's establishment drew from the founders' experiences in philanthropy, including conversations with , and aimed to invest in areas enabling young people to transform their lives through targeted grantmaking. The foundation's core mission centers on fostering a by prioritizing , who represent about 32% of the U.S. , through systems-level investments in essential supports like stable housing and quality education. A key focus is ending and , affecting roughly 1 in 30 U.S. children annually, by collaborating with affected , multi-sector coalitions, and policymakers to drive prevention, policy reforms, and innovative responses rather than solely reactive services. This approach aligns with the founders' goal of empowering underserved , including those identifying as people of color (48% of the age group), to thrive amid structural barriers. To maintain urgency and alignment with their values of finite-impact , the Raikeses decided to structure the foundation as time-bound, planning to fully spend down its endowment by 2038 rather than operating perpetually. This spend-down model, articulated by Jeff Raikes, seeks to concentrate resources on high-leverage opportunities in youth-focused areas without the dilution of indefinite timelines, reflecting a deliberate to avoid the administrative inertia seen in some enduring foundations.

Key Initiatives and Outcomes

The Raikes Foundation has prioritized housing stability for youth experiencing homelessness, investing in prevention strategies and early intervention models since 2016. In Washington state, these efforts contributed to a 40% reduction in unaccompanied youth and young adult homelessness from 2016 to 2022, alongside a 75% success rate in permanently housing youth and young adults served in rapid re-housing programs during 2020. The foundation's advocacy also leveraged public funding, with a modest initial investment catalyzing over $13 million in ongoing state prevention resources and achieving an 82-fold return in government commitments for youth homelessness programs. Overall, state-level data indicate declining rates of youth homelessness and rising high school graduation rates among affected youth. In education, the foundation supports systemic redesign to ensure equitable access and environments, including partnerships like Education Leads Home to boost academic outcomes for children and youth facing . These grants emphasize needs-based funding and for educators, though specific quantifiable impacts on statewide metrics remain tied to broader shifts rather than isolated program evaluations. Post-2020, the foundation expanded through its Resourcing Equity & initiative, funding nonpartisan and base-building to enhance participation in underserved areas. In October 2025, it announced initial grants targeting stronger local democracies in , Washington, and , with a focus on empowering marginalized voices ahead of elections. Early outcomes include support for 2024 election-year efforts prioritizing strategies, though long-term metrics on or policy influence are pending evaluation.

Criticisms of Philanthropic Approach

Critics of foundation-led education reforms, including those overseen by Raikes during his 2014–2018 tenure as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have highlighted the empirical shortcomings of initiatives aimed at systemic change. The Gates Foundation's Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching program, which invested approximately $575 million across multiple districts and states to enhance teacher evaluation and development, yielded no measurable gains in student achievement by 2015, according to a RAND Corporation evaluation; low-income and minority students saw no increased access to more effective teachers, underscoring the challenges in scaling such interventions. Similarly, the foundation's substantial funding—exceeding $200 million—for the Common Core State Standards faced widespread implementation resistance and failed to deliver consistent academic improvements, with Bill Gates acknowledging in 2017 that the effort did not fully realize its goals despite partial progress in math instruction. Raikes Foundation's equity-centered grants, which emphasize redesigning public education systems to address disparities in outcomes for underserved , have drawn broader for potentially sidelining merit-based alternatives that prioritize performance incentives. Detractors argue that equity-focused strategies, by seeking uniform results across diverse student groups, risk diluting standards and discouraging high achievement, as evidenced by debates over policies that adjust expectations based on demographic factors rather than absolute proficiency. Empirical analyses of similar philanthropic efforts reveal opportunity costs, where resources directed toward top-down equity interventions divert from potentially higher-return options like targeted skill-building or market-oriented innovations, with studies showing social programs often underperform economic multipliers from private sector investments. These approaches also intersect with debates on donor intent, where foundations' shifts toward ideological priorities—such as racial equity frameworks—may diverge from original aims of evidence-based impact, as seen in critiques of philanthrocapitalism's overreliance on unproven systemic overhauls amid stagnant national progress in key metrics like graduation rates and literacy. While Raikes has emphasized learning from setbacks, the persistence of low ROI in comparable equity-driven philanthropy raises questions about the causal efficacy of grantmaking that favors structural advocacy over direct, measurable interventions.

Public Positions and Controversies

Advocacy on Social Issues

Jeff Raikes has articulated a preference for systemic interventions in to address inequities, critiquing traditional "win-win" approaches that focus on individualistic solutions like funding hospital wings or student computers without tackling underlying power imbalances. In a July 2019 , he advocated for philanthropists to relinquish control and share power with communities experiencing inequities, arguing that involving those with in is essential for transforming systems toward rather than perpetuating top-down dynamics. Raikes defines equity as providing individuals with what they specifically need to succeed, in contrast to equality's uniform distribution, and emphasizes designing interventions for the least-served populations to yield broader societal benefits, as illustrated by the "curb-cut effect" where accessibility features for the disabled aid others like parents with strollers. He has highlighted race and class as key predictors of outcomes in areas such as and , urging those with privilege—particularly individuals—to actively listen, overcome discomfort, and leverage their positions to drive systemic change. In education, Raikes supports initiatives ensuring every young person in America has opportunities to thrive, integrating this with broader equity goals through the Raikes Foundation's grantmaking in youth-focused systems. On democracy, he has positioned philanthropy as a tool to bolster a multiracial democratic framework by resourcing equitable public systems and community participation, as evidenced by the foundation's 2023 launch of a Resourcing Equity and Democracy portfolio. In October 2025, the foundation announced initial grants targeting community strengthening and democratic health in Michigan, Washington, and North Carolina, predicated on the view that robust communities are foundational to resilient democracies.

Responses to Criticisms and Debates

In response to criticisms from education reformers like , who argued that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's initiatives—such as support for charter schools and teacher evaluation systems—eroded public by prioritizing market-based reforms over holistic needs, Jeff Raikes emphasized the foundation's openness to diverse perspectives during his tenure as CEO from to 2014. Raikes stated that Ravitch underestimated the breadth of critical voices engaging with the foundation, including her own, and highlighted efforts to solicit feedback from dissenters to refine approaches, such as reorganizing staff in 2012 to better incorporate school-level critiques. However, empirical evaluations of Gates-funded programs, including a 2018 analysis, found mixed outcomes, with some small high school models showing no significant gains in graduation rates or college attendance compared to traditional schools, underscoring ongoing debates about the causal impact of such interventions. Regarding debates over (DEI) initiatives, Raikes has defended their value amid corporate and political backlash, particularly as a board member. In a November statement, he argued that dismantling DEI harms by stifling innovation, market expansion, and through reduced workforce diversity. Following activist proposals and calls from 19 Republican-led states in January 2025 to repeal Costco's DEI policies, Raikes advocated for maximizing such programs, rebuking companies that abandoned them as shortsighted. Yet, multiple peer-reviewed studies challenge these assertions of efficacy; for instance, a 2016 analysis of over 800 U.S. firms found mandatory often activates and provokes backlash, with effects dissipating quickly and sometimes worsening attitudes toward underrepresented groups. Similarly, a review indicated common DEI practices, like blame-focused sessions, undermine rather than enhance diversity in managerial roles by fostering resentment without addressing structural barriers. These findings align with broader meta-analyses showing DEI training's limited long-term impact on reduction or organizational outcomes. Raikes has also addressed broader philanthropic scrutiny, including claims of by large foundations, by advocating for transparency and empirical rigor in grantmaking. In a May 2025 discussion on philanthropy facing and heightened criticism, he urged funders to engage critics constructively rather than retreat, drawing from his Gates Foundation experience of iterating based on data-driven feedback. This approach, he contended, counters perceptions of by prioritizing measurable progress over unverified narratives, though detractors persist in questioning the of foundation-led solutions absent democratic accountability.

Personal Life

Family and Residences

Jeff Raikes is married to Tricia Raikes, with whom he co-founded the Raikes Foundation. The couple has three children. They reside in , Washington, where the Raikes Foundation is based.

Awards and Recognitions

In 2025, Jeff Raikes received the Gold Spike Award from , the institution's highest honor for volunteer service, recognizing his long-standing leadership contributions including service on the Board of Trustees. Also in 2025, Raikes and his wife Tricia were awarded the Blake Nordstrom Humanitarian Award by the Puget Sound Business Journal for their philanthropic efforts through the Raikes Foundation, which focus on education, youth housing stability, and fostering inclusive societies. In 2024, Raikes was honored by the Puget Sound Business Journal as a Director of the Year for his board service, highlighting his governance roles in corporate and nonprofit sectors. In 2019, Raikes and Tricia Raikes received the Perry W. Branch Award for Distinguished Volunteer Service, the highest volunteer honor from the University of Foundation, for their dedication to educational and community initiatives tied to the university. In 2015, the couple was presented with the A.K. Guy Award by the of Greater for their foundational work advancing youth development and community programs.

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