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Day, Robert — W. Robert Day
Founder, Chairman and President
W.M. Keck Foundation
THE LATEST: Day is the grandson of Superior Oil founder William Myron Keck and oversees the Keck Foundation, one of the country's largest philanthropic organizations, with assets of more than $1.2 billion. Day was No. 34 on the Business Journal's Wealthiest Angelenos list in 2019 with a net worth of $2.2 billion.
BACKGROUND: Day graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1965 and started his career with the investment banking firm White Weld & Co. in New York. In 1971, he founded Trust Company of the West and served as chairman from 1971 through 2014. Day currently serves as a director of Freeport-McMoRan Inc., a member of the Board of Governors of the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, a member of the Board of Overseers at Keck School of Medicine at USC and a member of the Board of Trustees and Board Chair Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College.
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