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Article: VENTURE CAPITALIST JOHNSON GIVES $2 MILLION TO ENDOW CHAIR AT SU.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- March 9, 2000
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For the second time in less than a month, a venture capitalist with Puget Sound-area roots has decided to invest in business education.
Kent Johnson, founder and managing director of Alexander Hutton Venture Partners, LP, is giving Seattle University $2 million to establish an endowed chair in entrepreneurship. It is the largest gift ever received by SU's business school.
The SU gift follows on the heels of a $3 million donation to the University of Washington business school by alumnus Neal Dempsy, general partner at Cupertino, Calif.-based Bay Partners. That gift will endow a UW chair in Information Systems.
Johnson's gift, to be announced ...