Jeff Raikes is a ham in front of the camera. Jeff Raikes is musical. He’s a Nebraska farm boy, a practical joker and the kind of boss you don’t want to let down.
These are some of the things I learned during six weeks of research that I did in 2011 for an in-depth Puget Sound Business Journal profile of Raikes, president and CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who announced his resignation Tuesday.
I joked at the time that I was getting a Ph.D. in Raikes. I immersed myself in…
Jeff Raikes is a ham in front of the camera. Jeff Raikes is musical. He’s a Nebraska farm boy, a practical joker and the kind of boss you don’t want to let down.
These are some of the things I learned during six weeks of research that I did in 2011 for an in-depth Puget Sound Business Journal profile of Raikes, president and CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who announced his resignation Tuesday.
I joked at the time that I was getting a Ph.D. in Raikes. I immersed myself in…