Gill sold his fifty percent stake in the company in 1999 for a reported $500 million. Gill is also the founder of the pioneering page layout software company Quark, Inc. history, having personally committed more than $500 million since the early 1990s. As of 2019, he was the single largest individual donor to the LGBTQ rights movement in U.S. He is the founder and co-chair of the Gill Foundation, a private Denver-based philanthropic organization supporting efforts to secure nationwide civil rights for LGBTQ Americans. He was among the first openly gay people to be on the Forbes 400 list of America's richest people. Tim Gill (born October 18, 1953) is an American computer software programmer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and LGBTQ rights activist. These will be used to fund the Rama 3 � Dao Khanong Expressway and should not overly burden the national budget or cause a significant rise in public debt, he said.Founder of the Gill Foundation and Quark, Inc. If everything goes as planned, the Thailand Future Fund is expected to be launched within the second quarter of this year with targeted investment capital of between 40 to 50 billion baht. The PPP plan which includes Thailand Future Fund will help generate needed investment for two major transportation infrastructure projects currently being proposed by the Expressway Authority of Thailand. He said 20% of the investment will come from the national budget and from loans which will result in an increase in public debt.īut he said fortunately public debt is currently comparatively low. The fund mobilisation under what it calls Thailand Future Fund which has been long delayed expects to raise no less than 50 billion baht in the first start.Įkniti Nitithanprapas, the director general of the State Enterprises Policy Office (Sepo), said the fund raising was part of the government’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) plan to increase investments in major transportation infrastructure in the country.

The government plans to raise a huge fund from the public to kick start its mega transportation project in the second quarter of this year.

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