Portrait of Phillip T. (Terry) Ragon

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Phillip T. (Terry) Ragon

Net worth $3.5B

Health IT · United States

Born
Jun 01, 1949
Age
76
Source
Health IT
Residence
Boston, Massachusetts
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
0
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Phillip Ragon, known as Terry, founded InterSystems, a software company that enables hospitals and banks to analyze big data, in 1978.
  • Ragon retains full ownership of the company, which generates around $1 billion in annual sales.
  • Ragon and his wife, Susan, joined the Giving Pledge in 2017.
  • After a trip to South Africa in 2009 where Terry and Susan saw the ravages of AIDS, they established the Ragon Institute to pursue an HIV vaccine.
  • The couple announced a $200 million gift to endow the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard in 2019.
  • Ragon spent his high school senior year in Bogota, Colombia and has donated over half a million dollars since 2013 to a religious school there.
  • Ragon is the son of a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot.