Amy Towers

Towers was a French language and Finance major in college and then worked as a banker for nine years before becoming COO of the hedge fund Glenview Capital Management, founded by her former husband. In 2004, after five years at Glenview, she left the firm to become a full-time philanthropist. ==Philanthropy==

In 2006, Amy and her then husband In 2008, she donated $2 million to Teach for America to recruit teachers. In 2010, Richard Branson, the Nduna Foundation, and Humanity United, an organization backed by Pam Omidyar, the wife of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar founded Enterprise Zimbabwe. She serves as a Member of the Advisory Council of Acumen Fund, as board member of Human Rights Watch, The Elders, WITNESS, The U.S. Fund for UNICEF, The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Millennium Promise, KIPP Academy Charter Schools, The Allen-Stevenson School, and Teach for All. She is also actively involved with the Robin Hood Foundation, the International Medical Corps, and The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. She is currently the board chair of Mana Nutrition, a producer of RUTF in Fitzgerald, GA. ==Personal life==

She was married to hedge fund manager Larry Robbins. They had four sons and later divorced. She is now married to Jeff Towers. ==References==