Ravenel B. Curry III is an American businessman and philanthropist.[1][2][3]
Ravenel, a native of Greenwood, South Carolina, graduated from Furman University in 1963.[2][4]
He began his investment career as a security analyst at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, was a partner at H.C. Wainwright and a Portfolio Manager of the Duke Endowment.[5] Curry is currently the President and CIO of Eagle Capital Management, an investment management firm headquartered in New York City which he co-Founded with his late wife Beth Curry in 1988.[6][1][3]
He sits on the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, The Duke Endowment, the New York Hall of Science, the New-York Historical Society, the Genetics Endowment of South Carolina, the Blanton-Peale Institute (named for Norman Vincent Peale), and his alma mater, Furman University.[1][3][7][8][9][10] In 2004, he donated US$1 million to support the Chinese Studies program at Furman University, and, in 2023, he donated US$10 million to support the renovation of Furman University's basketball arena.[11][2] He has previously served as a Trustee of Furman University, as President of the Furman University Alumni Board and as Chair of the New Jersey Higher Education Assistance Authority.[12] Currently, Curry serves as a Trustee of the American Enterprise Institute, the Manhattan Institute, the New York Hall of Science, the New-York Historical Society, the Genetics Endowment of South Carolina. He is a Trustee Emeritus of Success Academy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[13]
He and Beth Curry founded the Ravenel and Elizabeth Curry Foundation, which made major contributions to Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medical College and Queens University of Charlotte, N.C.[6]
He married Elizabeth Rivers Curry (née Mary Elizabeth Rivers) (1941-2015) in 1963.[2][6]
