This week, FORBES sat down with billionaire Eli Broad and Gerun Riley, President of the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, at his apartment in The Sherry Netherland to discuss the future course of his philanthropic organization. Riley joined the organization in 2003, when she was just 26 years old, getting the job as receptionist after a “memorable interview” with Broad. “Over the last 14 years I feel like I’ve received degrees in architecture, law, medicine just by working with Mr. Broad” Riley said. In science he has donated $700 million to create The Broad Foundation, a human genome and stem cell research in Cambridge, Mass. “There’s a lot of work in education that is frustrating - that is why we need young, fresh troops” Broad says.

Source: Forbes October 28, 2017 16:30 UTC