Нил Буш: Америка бизнесмені және инвесторы

American businessman and investor

Neil Mallon Bush (born January 22, 1955) is an American businessman and investor. He is the fourth of six children of former President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush (née Pierce). His five siblings are George W. Bush, Jeb Bush; a former governor of Florida; the late Pauline Robinson Bush; Marvin Bush; and Dorothy Bush Koch.

Neil Bush was born on January 22, 1955, in Midland, Texas. Eventually, his grades improved and he graduated from St. Albans in 1973. In 1977, Bush earned a degree in economics from Tulane University. In 1979, Bush earned an MBA.

In 1999, Bush co founded Ignite! Learning, an educational software corporation. Bush has said he started Austin based Ignite! Learning because of his learning difficulties in middle school and those of his son, Pierce. The software uses multiple intelligence methods to provide varying types of content to appeal to multiple learning styles. To fund Ignite!, Bush raised $23 million from US investors, including his parents, as well as businessmen from Taiwan, Japan, Kuwait, the British Virgin Islands and the United Arab Emirates, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Documented investors included Kuwaiti company head Mohammed Al Saddah, and Chinese computer executive Winston Wong, as well as the late Russian billionaire expatriate Boris Berezovsky, and Berezovsky's partner Badri Patarkatsishvili. Bush's relationship with the late controversial oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a political enemy of Russian President Vladimir Putin who at the time of his death had been under indictment for fraud in Russia and an applicant for asylum in the United Kingdom, Bush met with Berezovsky in Latvia. The meeting caused tension between that country and Russia due to Berezovsky's fugitive status. There had also been speculation in the English language Moscow Times that the relationship may cause tension in U. S. Russian bilateral relations, "especially since Putin had taken pains to build a personal relationship with the U. S. president," George Bush. In 2002, Neil Bush commended his brother, George, for his efforts on education as president, but he questioned the emphasis on constant testing to keep federal aid coming to public schools: "I share the concerns of many that if our system is driven around assessments, pencil and paper tests that test a kid's ability to memorize stuff, I would say that reliance threatens to institutionalize bad teaching practices." As of October 2006, over 13 US school districts (out of over 14,000 school districts nationwide) have used federal funds made available through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 to buy Ignite's portable learning centers at $3,800 apiece. A December 2003 Style section article in The Washington Post reported that Bush's salary from Ignite! was $180,000 per year. When asked in January 2004 about the stock trades, Bush contrasted the capital gains he reported in 1999 and 2000 with the capital losses on Kopin stock he reported ($287,722 in all) in 2001. In 2001 Kopin joined a broad decline in high tech stock valuations.

Bush has often been invited to speak to audiences overseas. Bush says he has courtesy visits with world leaders but has no plans to wade into foreign policy. "Oftentimes because of my father's goodwill, and because of the president being who he is, people might extend an invitation, and it's enjoyable for me," Bush said. "Some of these folks are family friends." Speaking at a Saudi Arabian economic forum in January 2002, Bush referred to growing anti American sentiment in Arab countries and said the two peoples must communicate better. He said the Arab P. R. machine is not as good as Israel's. Bush frequently travels to the Middle East, Europe and Asia to negotiate deals and raise capital for various businesses. According to court filings from his divorce, in 2000 he was paid $1.3 million for such work. This includes $642,500 as a commission for introducing an Asian investor to the owners of an American high tech company. Bush serves as co chairman of a company called Crest Investment. Crest pays him $60,000 a year to provide miscellaneous consulting services. In 2001, Neil Bush incorporated an investment firm called LehmanBush with veteran China lawyer Edward Lehman.

Neil Bush is the founder and chairman of the George H. W. Bush Foundation For U. S. China Relations. Created in 2017, the Foundation serves as a U. S. China Relations Think Tank, Track 2 Diplomacy Policy Hub and for Business, Trade and U. S. Investment. The organization holds an annual George H. W. Bush Conference on U. S. China Relations. The purpose of The George H. W. Bush Foundation for U. S. China Relations seeks to advance U. S. China relations in ways that reflect the ethos and values of President George H. W. Bush, whose visionary, wise, deft and steady stewardship of the U. S. China relationship during his tenure as president was exemplary of the highest attributes and values of true statesmanship. Through an active, wide ranging and highly innovative program of activities, the Bush China Foundation promotes the late president's life long view that the U. S. China relationship is the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world and that a positive and constructive relationship between the two countries is in the best interest of both the United States and China as well as the entire global community.

Neil Bush is the chairman of Points of Light; an international nonprofit that works to increase volunteerism in the world. Points of Light has approximately 250 affiliates in 22 countries and partnerships with thousands of nonprofits and companies dedicated to volunteer service around the world. In 2012, Points of Light mobilized 4 million volunteers in 30 million hours of service worth $635 million.

Bush was a founding director, along with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI), of the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (FIIRD). The foundation promotes ecumenical understanding and publishes religious texts and was founded in 1999. Bush is no longer on the board of the foundation.

After his brother Jeb dropped out of the 2016 Republican presidential nomination race, Neil and his wife Maria signed on to the finance team of fellow Republican Ted Cruz.

Bush was married to Sharon (née Smith) Bush (born May 19, 1952) for 23 years. The couple have three children: Lauren Bush Lauren (born June 25, 1984), Pierce Mallon Bush (born March 11, 1986) and Ashley Walker Bush (born February 7, 1989). The couple divorced in April 2003. Bush's divorce deposition gained public attention when he admitted to several sexual encounters in Thailand and Hong Kong. Sharon gained custody of their minor child Ashley, who for a while was estranged from her father. In addition, Sharon kept their marital home after she collected enough money to pay off the mortgage. a volunteer at the Houston literacy foundation office of Bush's mother, Barbara. Robert Andrews, Andrews' ex husband, sued Sharon Bush in September 2003 for defamation after she alleged that Neil Bush was the father of Andrews' two year old son. Bush's son Pierce was a candidate for the U. S. House of Representatives in 2020 from Texas' 22nd district, but finished third in a fifteen way primary.