Mitchell Rales
#999Mitchell P. Rales is an American businessman and art curator. He co-founded Danaher Corporation with his brother Steven Rales in 1984 and the art museum Glenstone with his wife Emily Wei in 2006. Rales is also the chairman of ESAB and the leading limited partner of the National Football League (NFL) team Washington Commanders, as well as the former president of the National Gallery of Art. Rales has an estimated net worth of $4 billion as of 2025.
Biography & Background
xAI Grokipedia EnrichedMitchell P. Rales is an American businessman and art curator. He co-founded Danaher Corporation with his brother Steven Rales in 1984 and the art museum Glenstone with his wife Emily Wei in 2006. Rales is also the chairman of ESAB and the leading limited partner of the National Football League (NFL) team Washington Commanders, as well as the former president of the National Gallery of Art. Rales has an estimated net worth of $4 billion as of 2025.
- Mitchell Rales and his brother Steven acquired a real estate investment trust in 1983 and merged it into the firm Danaher.
- Over the years they acquired more than three dozen companies and turned Danaher into an industrial firm with nearly $25 billion in 2025 revenue.
- Mitchell Rales serves as chairman of Danaher's executive committee.
- Rales is also a minority owner of the NFL's Washington Commanders.
- In 2021, he and his brother each transferred Danaher shares worth more than $1.5 billion to their charitable foundations.
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Mitchell Rales Mitchell P. Rales (born August 1956) is an American billionaire businessman, philanthropist, and art collector best known as the co-founder and chairman of the executive committee of...