David R. Cheriton
| David Cheriton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
David Ross Cheriton March 29, 1951 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | B.A. University of British Columbia M.S. University of Waterloo PhD University of Waterloo |
| Occupation | Computer Scientist / Mathematician |
| Net worth |
 US$4.7 billion (March 2017) |
| Spouse(s) | Iris Fraser (divorced) |
| Children | 4 |
David Ross Cheriton (born March 29, 1951) is a Canadian computer scientist, mathematician, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and heads up the Distributed Systems Group. He is a distributed systems and networking expert with keen insight into identifying big market opportunities and building the architectures needed to address these opportunities. He has founded and invested in technology companies, including Google, where he was amongst the first investors; VMware, where he was an early angel investor; and Arista, where he was co-founder and chief scientist. Cheriton funded at least 20 companies. With an estimated net worth of US$3.4 billion (as of February 2016), Cheriton was ranked by Forbes as the 13th wealthiest Canadian and 628th in the world. Cheriton has made generous contributions to education, with a $25 Million donation to support graduate studies and research in its School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, a $7.5 million donation to the University of British Columbia, and a $12 million endowment in 2016 to Stanford University to support Computer Science faculty, graduate fellowships, and undergraduate scholarships.
Born in Vancouver, Cheriton attended public schools in the Highlands neighborhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
He briefly attended the University of Alberta where he had applied for both mathematics and music. Having been rejected by the music program, Cheriton went on to study mathematics and received his bachelor's degree from the University of British Columbia in 1973. Cheriton received his Masters and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Waterloo in 1974 and 1978, respectively.
He spent three years as an Assistant Professor at his alma mater, the University of British Columbia, before moving to Stanford in 1981.
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