Michael Ainslie
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Michael Ainslie

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Michael Ainslie has been a champion of education for decades. His passion has been The Posse Foundation, which he helped launch in 1994. Michael was Posse’s first board chair, serving for thirteen years and continues on the Posse board. Posse finds young leaders from public and parochial high schools in ten major cities and sends them to one of Posse’s fifty-seven elite university partners as a cohort of ten Posse scholars. They receive a full-merit leadership scholarship. More than 9,200 Posse scholars have won $1.4 billion in scholarships, and they are graduating at a rate of 90%. Posse’s goal is to have these young people assume leadership positions in the workforce, and they are doing just that. Posse alums are now partners in law firms, one is president of a college, another is CEO and owner of an advertising firm, another started a charter school, and many are teaching at the university and high school levels. Michael had a distinguished business career serving as president and CEO of Sotheby’s from 1984 to 1994, leading a transformation of the worldwide auction business. Previously he was president and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation from 1980 to 1984. While at the National Trust, he helped rewrite the tax law to provide a 25% investment tax credit for investment in historic buildings. This incentive radically changed the landscape of historic preservation. Michael is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Harvard Business School, and he studied abroad as a Corning Foundation World Travel Fellow. He is a trustee emeritus of Vanderbilt University and has served on the boards of the United States Tennis Association, the St. Joe Company, and Lehman Brothers. He and his family reside in Palm Beach, Florida.
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