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Mitchell Rales
Mitchell Rales
	Rales in 2018
Born	August 1956 (age 68); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	Miami University (1978)
Occupations	Businessman; art collector;
Known for	Co-founding Danaher and Glenstone
Title	Chairman; ESAB; Limited partner; Washington Commanders (NFL);
Board member of	Danaher; ESAB;
Spouses	Lyn Goldthorp (div. 1999); Emily Wei (m. 2008);
Children	2
Family	Steven Rales (brother)

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Mitchell P. Rales (born August 1956) is an American businessman and art collector. 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 top limited partner of the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). His net worth was estimated by Forbes in mid-2024 to be $4.8 billion.

Early life

Rales was born in August 1956 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. He graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 1974, where he was captain of their football and baseball teams.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Rales earned a degree in business administration at Miami University in 1978 and was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.^[5]

Career

Business

In 1979, Rales left his father's real estate firm to found Equity Group Holdings with his brother, Steven Rales. Using junk bonds, they bought a diversified line of businesses. In 1978, they changed the name to Diversified Mortgage Investors and then to Danaher in 1984.^[6] In the 1980s, the AM side of radio station WGMS was sold off to Rales, who converted it WTEM, a sports-talk station, in 1992. In 1988, he made a takeover bid of Interco, which was the largest manufacturer of furniture and men's shoes in the U.S. at the time.^[7]^[8] He later ended the bid after five months with a profit of $60 million.^[9]

In 1995, Rales and his brother founded Colfax Corporation, an industrial pumps manufacturer later rebranded as Enovis in 2022.^[10] He is a majority shareholder of Fortive, which split off from Danaher in 2016, and served on their board of directors until June 2021.^[6]^[11] In 2017, Rales paid a fine of $720,000 to the Federal Trade Commission after inadvertently reporting purchases of shares in Colfax and Danaher were not above the filing threshold, which violated the Hart–Scott–Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.^[12] He had previously been fined $850,000 by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1991 for violating the same act after buying Interco.^[13]

In July 2023, Rales became the top limited partner in a group headed by Josh Harris that acquired the National Football League (NFL) team Washington Commanders for $6.05 billion, the highest ever for a sports team.^[14]^[15] He considered the opportunity to be "humbling", as he grew up a fan of the team and frequently attended home games at RFK Stadium.^[16]

Art

Glenstone, an art museum founded with his wife in 2006

In 2006, Rales and his wife Emily Wei Rales established the art museum Glenstone in Potomac, Maryland.^[17]^[18] Rales had owned the land since 1986 and had previously made it his residence.^[19] Glenstone displays the Rales's collection of post-World War II art, including paintings, sculptures, and both indoor and outdoor installations, and also functions as his personal residence.^[20]^[21] In 2018, Glenstone finished a $219 million expansion which increased both the gallery space and the wooded land surrounding the galleries.^[22] Rales donated $1.9 billion to the Glenstone Foundation in 2021, increasing the museum's asset value to $4.6 billion, nearly the same as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.^[21] The museum is free to visit via online booking.^[23]^[24]

From 2019 to 2024, Rales was president of the National Gallery of Art, being succeeded by Darren Walker.^[25]^[26]

Personal life

Rales is Jewish and is one of four sons (Joshua, Steven, and Stewart) of Norman and Ruth Rales (née Abramson).^[27]^[28] Norman was raised in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York and later became a businessman, who sold his building supply company in Washington, D.C. to his employees in what was the first employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) transaction in the US. Norman was also a philanthropist, having founded the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation and the Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service.^[27] In 1988, he took a fishing trip in Russia and nearly died after their helicopter crashed.^[19]

Rales has been married twice. He and his first wife, Lyn Goldthorp Rales, had two children before a divorce in 1999.^[29] He married his second wife, Emily Wei, in 2008.^[22]^[30]^[3] He lives in Potomac, Maryland.^[31] Rales was the president of the National Gallery of Art from 2019 to 2024, and is chairman of the board of ESAB.^[25]^[26]^[32] He is a former board member of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and retired as chair of Enovis in 2023.^[32]^[33] The same year, he was elected as a member of the Business, Corporate, and Philanthropic Leadership class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[34] Rales signed The Giving Pledge in 2019, with his net worth being estimated by Forbes in June 2024 to be $4.8 billion.^[31]^[35]

References

^ "Mitchell RALES". gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
^ Alessia Zorloni (August 19, 2016). Art Wealth Management: Managing Private Art Collections. Springer. p. 135. ISBN 978-3-319-24241-5. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
^ ^a ^b Edgers, Geoff (September 24, 2018). "Meet the very wealthy, very private couple behind Washington's most original museum". Washington Post. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
^ Murphy, Carolyn and Lynn Stander (September 2005). "We Knew Them When". Bethesda Magazine. Archived from the original on August 20, 2008.
^ Kiger, Patrick J. (November 1994). "The good guys: Steven and Mitchell Rales have quietly brown-bagged their way to fortunes worth half a billion dollars. But they'd rather you didn't know that. Or them". Regardie's Magazine.
^ ^a ^b "Bloomberg Billionaires Index #309 Mitchell Rales". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved March 8, 2022.
^ David A. Vise; Steve Coll (August 23, 1988). "The Rales Brothers Play for Big Stakes; Little-Known Area Family Builds an Industrial Empire". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012.
^ "COMPANY NEWS; Request on Interco". The New York Times. August 4, 1988.
^ "COMPANY NEWS; Rales Brothers Sell Their Interco Stake". The New York Times. December 16, 1988.
^ Thomas Heath (July 7, 2008). "The Quiet Dynamism of the Brothers Rales". The Washington Post.
^ "Fortive Announces Appointment of Daniel Comas to Its Board of Directors and the Retirement of Steven Rales and Mitchell Rales From the Board". investors.fortive.com. March 11, 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
^ "In Two Separate Actions, FTC Charges Investors with Violations of U.S. Premerger Notification Requirements". FTC.gov. January 17, 2017. Retrieved May 21, 2023.
^ "United States v. Mitchell P. Rales; Proposed Final Judgment and Competitive Impact Statement". Federal Register. Antitrust Division. January 31, 2017. Retrieved May 21, 2023.
^ Jhabvala, Nicki (September 7, 2023). "Commanders owner on restoring the former name: 'That ship has sailed.'". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
^ Jhabvala, Nicki (July 20, 2023). "The Commanders sale was so complicated, it was 'like 20 deals in one'". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
^ Selby, Zach (July 22, 2023). "Josh Harris, Mitch Rales and Earvin 'Magic' Johnson deliver powerful opening statements". Commanders.com. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
^ Russeth, Andrew (September 21, 2018). "Maximum Minimalism: Emily and Mitchell Rales's Glenstone Museum Grows". ARTnews.com. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
^ Sernovitz, Daniel J. (September 6, 2018). "Contractor sues Glenstone museum for $24 million 'disorganized' expansion planning". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
^ ^a ^b Kenny, Katie (March 10, 2023). "Mitchell Rales: What to Know About the Latest Commanders Bidder". Washingtonian. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
^ Sussman, Anna Louie (September 25, 2018). "Inside the $200 Million Expansion of America's New Must-See Museum". Artsy. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Maloney, Tom (February 28, 2023). "This Upstart Museum Now Has a Met-Sized Endowment". Bloomberg. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
^ ^a ^b Vogel, Carol (April 18, 2013). "Mitchell and Emily Rales Are Expanding Glenstone Museum". The New York Times.
^ Pogrebin, Robert (September 21, 2018). "Glenstone, a Private Art Xanadu, Invests $200 Million in a Public Vision". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 2, 2018. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
^ Smee, Sebastian; Higgins, Adrian. "Glenstone: See inside (and outside) D.C.'s newest museum experience". Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 2, 2018. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
^ ^a ^b Roberts, Roxanne (October 15, 2024). "Darren Walker elected president of the National Gallery of Art". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
^ ^a ^b "National Gallery of Art Trustees Elect Darren Walker as New Trustee; Mitchell P. Rales Becomes President; Sharon Rockefeller Reelected as Chairman; Frederick W. Beinecke and Andrew M. Saul Become Trustees Emeriti". National Gallery of Art. September 27, 2019. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Huriash, Lisa (March 15, 2012). "Norman Rales, orphan to wealthy businessman and philanthropist, is dead at 88". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
^ Art Wealth Management: Managing Private Art Collections. Zorloni, Alessia. Springer. August 19, 2016. ISBN 978-3319242415. OCLC 957318205.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ Valdez, Angela (June 6, 2008). "A Very Private Collection". Washington City Paper. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
^ Kennicott, Philip (May 17, 2013). "Museums". The Washington Post.
^ ^a ^b "Forbes profile: Mitchell Rales". Forbes. Retrieved June 17, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Selvin, Claire (September 27, 2019). "National Gallery of Art Names Darren Walker Trustee, Mitchell Rales Appointed President". ARTnews. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
^ "Enovis Announces Board Leadership Transition". ir.enovis.com. March 15, 2023. Retrieved July 8, 2023.
^ "New Members Elected in 2023". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
^ "Emily and Mitchell Rales". givingpledge.org. Retrieved March 9, 2023.

External links

[1] "Mitchell RALES". gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved April 12, 2023.

[Zorloni2016-2] Alessia Zorloni (August 19, 2016). Art Wealth Management: Managing Private Art Collections. Springer. p. 135. ISBN 978-3-319-24241-5. Retrieved February 14, 2018.

[:2-3] Edgers, Geoff (September 24, 2018). "Meet the very wealthy, very private couple behind Washington's most original museum". Washington Post. Retrieved October 24, 2018.

[4] Murphy, Carolyn and Lynn Stander (September 2005). "We Knew Them When". Bethesda Magazine. Archived from the original on August 20, 2008.

[5] Kiger, Patrick J. (November 1994). "The good guys: Steven and Mitchell Rales have quietly brown-bagged their way to fortunes worth half a billion dollars. But they'd rather you didn't know that. Or them". Regardie's Magazine.

[:4-6] "Bloomberg Billionaires Index #309 Mitchell Rales". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved March 8, 2022.

[7] David A. Vise; Steve Coll (August 23, 1988). "The Rales Brothers Play for Big Stakes; Little-Known Area Family Builds an Industrial Empire". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012.

[8] "COMPANY NEWS; Request on Interco". The New York Times. August 4, 1988.

[9] "COMPANY NEWS; Rales Brothers Sell Their Interco Stake". The New York Times. December 16, 1988.

[10] Thomas Heath (July 7, 2008). "The Quiet Dynamism of the Brothers Rales". The Washington Post.

[11] "Fortive Announces Appointment of Daniel Comas to Its Board of Directors and the Retirement of Steven Rales and Mitchell Rales From the Board". investors.fortive.com. March 11, 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2023.

[12] "In Two Separate Actions, FTC Charges Investors with Violations of U.S. Premerger Notification Requirements". FTC.gov. January 17, 2017. Retrieved May 21, 2023.

[13] "United States v. Mitchell P. Rales; Proposed Final Judgment and Competitive Impact Statement". Federal Register. Antitrust Division. January 31, 2017. Retrieved May 21, 2023.

[14] Jhabvala, Nicki (September 7, 2023). "Commanders owner on restoring the former name: 'That ship has sailed.'". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 7, 2023.

[15] Jhabvala, Nicki (July 20, 2023). "The Commanders sale was so complicated, it was 'like 20 deals in one'". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 23, 2023.

[16] Selby, Zach (July 22, 2023). "Josh Harris, Mitch Rales and Earvin 'Magic' Johnson deliver powerful opening statements". Commanders.com. Retrieved July 23, 2023.

[17] Russeth, Andrew (September 21, 2018). "Maximum Minimalism: Emily and Mitchell Rales's Glenstone Museum Grows". ARTnews.com. Retrieved August 26, 2020.

[18] Sernovitz, Daniel J. (September 6, 2018). "Contractor sues Glenstone museum for $24 million 'disorganized' expansion planning". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved January 5, 2019.

[Washingtonian-19] Kenny, Katie (March 10, 2023). "Mitchell Rales: What to Know About the Latest Commanders Bidder". Washingtonian. Retrieved August 15, 2023.

[20] Sussman, Anna Louie (September 25, 2018). "Inside the $200 Million Expansion of America's New Must-See Museum". Artsy. Retrieved August 26, 2020.

[GlenstoneAsset-21] Maloney, Tom (February 28, 2023). "This Upstart Museum Now Has a Met-Sized Endowment". Bloomberg. Retrieved April 24, 2023.

[nytimes.com-22] Vogel, Carol (April 18, 2013). "Mitchell and Emily Rales Are Expanding Glenstone Museum". The New York Times.

[:0-23] Pogrebin, Robert (September 21, 2018). "Glenstone, a Private Art Xanadu, Invests $200 Million in a Public Vision". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 2, 2018. Retrieved October 1, 2018.

[:1-24] Smee, Sebastian; Higgins, Adrian. "Glenstone: See inside (and outside) D.C.'s newest museum experience". Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 2, 2018. Retrieved October 1, 2018.

[:3-25] Roberts, Roxanne (October 15, 2024). "Darren Walker elected president of the National Gallery of Art". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 15, 2024.

[:5-26] "National Gallery of Art Trustees Elect Darren Walker as New Trustee; Mitchell P. Rales Becomes President; Sharon Rockefeller Reelected as Chairman; Frederick W. Beinecke and Andrew M. Saul Become Trustees Emeriti". National Gallery of Art. September 27, 2019. Retrieved October 15, 2024.

[Norman-27] Huriash, Lisa (March 15, 2012). "Norman Rales, orphan to wealthy businessman and philanthropist, is dead at 88". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved April 15, 2023.

[28] Art Wealth Management: Managing Private Art Collections. Zorloni, Alessia. Springer. August 19, 2016. ISBN 978-3319242415. OCLC 957318205.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[29] Valdez, Angela (June 6, 2008). "A Very Private Collection". Washington City Paper. Retrieved April 15, 2023.

[washingtonpost.com-30] Kennicott, Philip (May 17, 2013). "Museums". The Washington Post.

[Forbes-31] "Forbes profile: Mitchell Rales". Forbes. Retrieved June 17, 2024.

[NGA-32] Selvin, Claire (September 27, 2019). "National Gallery of Art Names Darren Walker Trustee, Mitchell Rales Appointed President". ARTnews. Retrieved September 28, 2019.

[33] "Enovis Announces Board Leadership Transition". ir.enovis.com. March 15, 2023. Retrieved July 8, 2023.

[34] "New Members Elected in 2023". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved April 24, 2023.

[35] "Emily and Mitchell Rales". givingpledge.org. Retrieved March 9, 2023.

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-'''Mitchell P.<!--listed as Paul on some people search portals, but need a reliable source to confirm--> Rales ''' (born August 1956) is an American [[businessman]] and [[art collector]]. He founded [[Danaher Corporation]] in 1984 with his brother [[Steven Rales]] and is the chairman of its executive committee. Rales is also the chairman of [[ESAB]], president of the [[National Gallery of Art]], founder and president of [[Glenstone]], an art museum established at his home with his wife [[Emily Wei]], and a limited partner of the [[Washington Commanders]] of the [[National Football League]] (NFL). His net worth was estimated by ''[[Forbes]]'' in July 2023 to be $5.4 billion.
+'''Mitchell P.<!--listed as Paul on some people search portals but need a reliable source to confirm--> Rales''' (born August 1956) is an American businessman and art collector. 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 top limited partner of the [[Washington Commanders]] of the [[National Football League]] (NFL). His net worth was estimated by ''[[Forbes]]'' in mid-2024 to be $4.8 billion.
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 ===Business===
+[[File:Wes Moore & Aruna Miller Visit Commanders Training Camp.jpg|thumb|left|Rales (''center'') with Maryland governors [[Aruna Miller]] and [[Wes Moore]] and [[Washington Commanders]] executives [[Doug Williams (quarterback)|Doug Williams]] and [[Jason Wright]], 2023]]
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 In 1979, Rales left his father's real estate firm to found Equity Group Holdings with his brother, [[Steven Rales]]. Using [[junk bonds]], they bought a diversified line of businesses. In 1978, they changed the name to Diversified Mortgage Investors and then to Danaher in 1984.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |date=|title=Bloomberg Billionaires Index #309 Mitchell Rales |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/mitchell-p-rales/ |access-date=March 8, 2022 |newspaper=Bloomberg.com}}</ref> In the 1980s, the AM side of radio station WGMS was sold off to Rales, who converted it [[WTEM]], a sports-talk station, in 1992. In 1988, he made a takeover bid of Interco, which was the largest manufacturer of furniture and men's shoes in the U.S. at the time.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1274918.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023100803/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1274918.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=October 23, 2012| title= The Rales Brothers Play for Big Stakes; Little-Known Area Family Builds an Industrial Empire | newspaper= The Washington Post| author=David A. Vise| author2=Steve Coll |date=August 23, 1988 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6DF173AF937A3575BC0A96E948260| title=COMPANY NEWS; Request on Interco| date=August 4, 1988|work=The New York Times}}</ref> He later ended the bid after five months with a profit of $60 million.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6D91338F935A25751C1A96E948260| title=COMPANY NEWS; Rales Brothers Sell Their Interco Stake| date=December 16, 1988|work=The New York Times}}</ref>
-In 1995, Rales and his brother founded [[Colfax Corporation]], an industrial pumps manufacturer later rebranded as Enovis in 2022.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/06/AR2008070601875.html| title= The Quiet Dynamism of the Brothers Rales| newspaper= The Washington Post| date=July 7, 2008| author=Thomas Heath }}</ref> He is a majority shareholder of [[Fortive]], which split off from Danaher in 2016, and served on their board of directors until June 2021.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Fortive Announces Appointment of Daniel Comas to Its Board of Directors and the Retirement of Steven Rales and Mitchell Rales From the Board |url=https://investors.fortive.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2021/Fortive-Announces-Appointment-of-Daniel-Comas-to-Its-Board-of-Directors-and-the-Retirement-of-Steven-Rales-and-Mitchell-Rales-From-the-Board/default.aspx |website=investors.fortive.com |access-date=April 2, 2023 |date=March 11, 2021}}</ref> In 2017, Rales paid a fine of $720,000 to the [[Federal Trade Commission]] after inadvertently reporting purchases of shares in Colfax and Danaher were not above the filing threshold, which violated the [[Hart–Scott–Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act]].<ref>{{cite web |title=In Two Separate Actions, FTC Charges Investors with Violations of U.S. Premerger Notification Requirements |url=https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2017/01/two-separate-actions-ftc-charges-investors-violations-us-premerger-notification-requirements |website=FTC.gov |date=January 17, 2017 |access-date=May 21, 2023}}</ref> He had previously been fined $850,000 by the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] in 1991 for violating the same act after buying Interco.<ref>{{cite web |title=United States v. Mitchell P. Rales; Proposed Final Judgment and Competitive Impact Statement |url=https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/31/2017-02025/united-states-v-mitchell-p-rales-proposed-final-judgment-and-competitive-impact-statement |website=[[Federal Register]] |agency=[[United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division|Antitrust Division]] |access-date=May 21, 2023}}</ref>
+In 1995, Rales and his brother founded [[Colfax Corporation]], an industrial pumps manufacturer later rebranded as Enovis in 2022.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/06/AR2008070601875.html| title= The Quiet Dynamism of the Brothers Rales| newspaper= The Washington Post| date=July 7, 2008| author=Thomas Heath }}</ref> He is a majority shareholder of [[Fortive]], which split off from Danaher in 2016, and served on their board of directors until June 2021.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Fortive Announces Appointment of Daniel Comas to Its Board of Directors and the Retirement of Steven Rales and Mitchell Rales From the Board |url=https://investors.fortive.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2021/Fortive-Announces-Appointment-of-Daniel-Comas-to-Its-Board-of-Directors-and-the-Retirement-of-Steven-Rales-and-Mitchell-Rales-From-the-Board/default.aspx |website=investors.fortive.com |access-date=April 2, 2023 |date=March 11, 2021}}</ref> In 2017, Rales paid a fine of $720,000 to the [[Federal Trade Commission]] after inadvertently reporting purchases of shares in Colfax and Danaher were not above the filing threshold, which violated the [[Hart–Scott–Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act]].<ref>{{cite web |title=In Two Separate Actions, FTC Charges Investors with Violations of U.S. Premerger Notification Requirements |url=https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2017/01/two-separate-actions-ftc-charges-investors-violations-us-premerger-notification-requirements |website=FTC.gov |date=January 17, 2017 |access-date=May 21, 2023}}</ref> He had previously been fined $850,000 by the [[U.S. Department of Justice]] in 1991 for violating the same act after buying Interco.<ref>{{cite web |title=United States v. Mitchell P. Rales; Proposed Final Judgment and Competitive Impact Statement |url=https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/31/2017-02025/united-states-v-mitchell-p-rales-proposed-final-judgment-and-competitive-impact-statement |website=[[Federal Register]] |date=January 31, 2017 |agency=[[Antitrust Division]] |access-date=May 21, 2023}}</ref>
-In 2023, Rales became the top [[limited partner]] of a group headed by [[Josh Harris (businessman)|Josh Harris]] that purchased the [[Washington Commanders]], an American football team belonging to the [[National Football League]] (NFL).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jhabvala |first1=Nicki |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/09/07/commanders-name-change-rales-harris/| title=Commanders owner on restoring the former name: ‘That ship has sailed.’|website=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=September 7, 2023 | date=September 7, 2023}}</ref> The price, $6.05 billion, was the highest ever paid for a sports team.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jhabvala |first1=Nicki |title=The Commanders sale was so complicated, it was ‘like 20 deals in one’ |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/20/josh-harris-rales-commanders-owners/ |website=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=July 23, 2023 |date=July 20, 2023}}</ref> He considered the opportunity to be humbling, as he was grew up a fan of the team and frequently attended games with his brothers at [[RFK Stadium]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Selby |first1=Zach |title=Josh Harris, Mitch Rales and Earvin 'Magic' Johnson deliver powerful opening statements |url=https://www.commanders.com/news/josh-harris-mitch-rales-and-earvin-magic-johnson-deliver-powerful-opening-statem |website=Commanders.com |access-date=July 23, 2023|date=July 22, 2023}}</ref>
+In July 2023, Rales became the top [[limited partner]] in a group headed by [[Josh Harris (businessman)|Josh Harris]] that acquired the [[National Football League]] (NFL) team [[Washington Commanders]] for $6.05 billion, the highest ever for a sports team.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jhabvala |first1=Nicki |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/09/07/commanders-name-change-rales-harris/| title=Commanders owner on restoring the former name: 'That ship has sailed.'|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=September 7, 2023 | date=September 7, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jhabvala |first1=Nicki |title=The Commanders sale was so complicated, it was 'like 20 deals in one' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/20/josh-harris-rales-commanders-owners/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=July 23, 2023 |date=July 20, 2023}}</ref> He considered the opportunity to be "humbling", as he grew up a fan of the team and frequently attended home games at [[RFK Stadium]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Selby |first1=Zach |title=Josh Harris, Mitch Rales and Earvin 'Magic' Johnson deliver powerful opening statements |url=https://www.commanders.com/news/josh-harris-mitch-rales-and-earvin-magic-johnson-deliver-powerful-opening-statem |website=Commanders.com |access-date=July 23, 2023|date=July 22, 2023}}</ref>
 ===Art===
-[[File:Glenstone-2018-10-13-courtyard-1.jpg|thumb|Glenstone, an art museum founded with his wife in 2006]]
+[[File:Glenstone-2018-10-13-courtyard-1.jpg|thumb|left|[[Glenstone]], an art museum founded with his wife in 2006]]
-In 2006, Rales and his wife [[Emily Wei Rales]] established the art museum [[Glenstone]] in [[Potomac, Maryland]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Russeth|first=Andrew|date=September 21, 2018|title=Maximum Minimalism: Emily and Mitchell Rales's Glenstone Museum Grows|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/emily-and-mitchell-rales-glenstone-expansion-11021/|access-date=August 26, 2020|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2018/09/06/contractor-sues-glenstone-museum-for-24-million.html|title=Contractor sues Glenstone museum for $24 million 'disorganized' expansion planning|last=Sernovitz|first=Daniel J.|date=September 6, 2018|website=Washington Business Journal|access-date=January 5, 2019}}</ref> Rales had owned the land since 1986 and had previously made it his residence.<ref name="Washingtonian">{{cite web |last1=Kenny |first1=Katie |title=Mitchell Rales: What to Know About the Latest Commanders Bidder |url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/03/10/mitchell-rales-what-to-know-about-the-latest-commanders-bidder/ |website=Washingtonian |access-date=August 15, 2023}}</ref> Glenstone displays the Rales's collection of post-World War II art, including paintings, sculptures, and both indoor and outdoor installations, and also functions as his personal residence.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sussman|first=Anna Louie|date=September 25, 2018|title=Inside the $200 Million Expansion of America's New Must-See Museum|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-inside-200-million-expansion-americas-new-must-see-museum|access-date=August 26, 2020|website=Artsy|language=en}}</ref><ref name="GlenstoneAsset">{{cite news |last1=Maloney |first1=Tom |title=This Upstart Museum Now Has a Met-Sized Endowment |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-28/billionaire-donates-1-9-billion-to-art-museum-where-he-lives#xj4y7vzkg |website=Bloomberg |date=February 28, 2023 |access-date=April 24, 2023}}</ref> In 2018, Glenstone finished a $219 million expansion which increased both the gallery space and the wooded land surrounding the galleries.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/arts/design/mitchell-and-emily-rales-are-expanding-glenstone-museum.html |work=The New York Times |first=Carol |last=Vogel |title=Mitchell and Emily Rales Are Expanding Glenstone Museum |date=April 18, 2013}}</ref> Rales donated $1.9 billion to the Glenstone Foundation in 2021, increasing the museum's asset value to $4.6 billion, nearly the same as the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York.<ref name="GlenstoneAsset"/> The museum is free to visit via online booking.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/design/glenstone-expansion-mitchell-rales.html|title=Glenstone, a Private Art Xanadu, Invests $200 Million in a Public Vision|last=Pogrebin|first=Robert|date=September 21, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 1, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002070547/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/design/glenstone-expansion-mitchell-rales.html|archive-date=October 2, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/glenstone-museum/|title=Glenstone: See inside (and outside) D.C.'s newest museum experience|last1=Smee|first1=Sebastian|last2=Higgins|first2=Adrian|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002064647/https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/glenstone-museum/|archive-date=October 2, 2018|url-status=live|access-date=October 1, 2018}}</ref>
+In 2006, Rales and his wife [[Emily Wei Rales]] established the art museum [[Glenstone]] in [[Potomac, Maryland]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Russeth|first=Andrew|date=September 21, 2018|title=Maximum Minimalism: Emily and Mitchell Rales's Glenstone Museum Grows|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/emily-and-mitchell-rales-glenstone-expansion-11021/|access-date=August 26, 2020|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2018/09/06/contractor-sues-glenstone-museum-for-24-million.html|title=Contractor sues Glenstone museum for $24 million 'disorganized' expansion planning|last=Sernovitz|first=Daniel J.|date=September 6, 2018|website=Washington Business Journal|access-date=January 5, 2019}}</ref> Rales had owned the land since 1986 and had previously made it his residence.<ref name="Washingtonian">{{cite web |last1=Kenny |first1=Katie |title=Mitchell Rales: What to Know About the Latest Commanders Bidder |url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/03/10/mitchell-rales-what-to-know-about-the-latest-commanders-bidder/ |website=Washingtonian |date=March 10, 2023 |access-date=August 15, 2023}}</ref> Glenstone displays the Rales's collection of post-World War II art, including paintings, sculptures, and both indoor and outdoor installations, and also functions as his personal residence.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sussman|first=Anna Louie|date=September 25, 2018|title=Inside the $200 Million Expansion of America's New Must-See Museum|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-inside-200-million-expansion-americas-new-must-see-museum|access-date=August 26, 2020|website=Artsy|language=en}}</ref><ref name="GlenstoneAsset">{{cite news |last1=Maloney |first1=Tom |title=This Upstart Museum Now Has a Met-Sized Endowment |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-28/billionaire-donates-1-9-billion-to-art-museum-where-he-lives#xj4y7vzkg |website=Bloomberg |date=February 28, 2023 |access-date=April 24, 2023}}</ref> In 2018, Glenstone finished a $219 million expansion which increased both the gallery space and the wooded land surrounding the galleries.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/arts/design/mitchell-and-emily-rales-are-expanding-glenstone-museum.html |work=The New York Times |first=Carol |last=Vogel |title=Mitchell and Emily Rales Are Expanding Glenstone Museum |date=April 18, 2013}}</ref> Rales donated $1.9 billion to the Glenstone Foundation in 2021, increasing the museum's asset value to $4.6 billion, nearly the same as the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York.<ref name="GlenstoneAsset"/> The museum is free to visit via online booking.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/design/glenstone-expansion-mitchell-rales.html|title=Glenstone, a Private Art Xanadu, Invests $200 Million in a Public Vision|last=Pogrebin|first=Robert|date=September 21, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 1, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002070547/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/design/glenstone-expansion-mitchell-rales.html|archive-date=October 2, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/glenstone-museum/|title=Glenstone: See inside (and outside) D.C.'s newest museum experience|last1=Smee|first1=Sebastian|last2=Higgins|first2=Adrian|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002064647/https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/glenstone-museum/|archive-date=October 2, 2018|url-status=live|access-date=October 1, 2018}}</ref>
+From 2019 to 2024, Rales was president of the [[National Gallery of Art]], being succeeded by [[Darren Walker]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Roberts |first=Roxanne |date=October 15, 2024 |title=Darren Walker elected president of the National Gallery of Art |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2024/10/15/darren-walker-national-gallery-art-president/ |access-date=October 15, 2024 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=September 27, 2019 |title=National Gallery of Art Trustees Elect Darren Walker as New Trustee; Mitchell P. Rales Becomes President; Sharon Rockefeller Reelected as Chairman; Frederick W. Beinecke and Andrew M. Saul Become Trustees Emeriti |url=https://www.nga.gov/press/2019/trustees.html |access-date=October 15, 2024 |website=[[National Gallery of Art]]}}</ref>
 ==Personal life==
-[[File:Wes Moore & Aruna Miller Visit Commanders Training Camp.jpg|thumb|left|Rales (''center'') with [[Aruna Miller]], [[Wes Moore]], [[Doug Williams (quarterback)|Doug Williams]], and [[Jason Wright]], 2023]]
+[[File:Mitchell Rales, Josh Harris, David Rubenstein.jpg|thumb|Rales and Commanders managing partner [[Josh Harris (businessman)|Josh Harris]] speaking to [[David Rubenstein]] at [[The Economic Club of Washington, D.C.]], 2023]]
-Rales is [[Jewish]] and is one of four sons of Ruth (née Abramson) and Norman Rales.<ref name="Norman">{{cite web |last1=Huriash |first1=Lisa |title=Norman Rales, orphan to wealthy businessman and philanthropist, is dead at 88 |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2012-03-15-fl-norman-rales-obit-20120315-story.html |website=[[Sun Sentinel]] |date=March 15, 2012 |access-date=April 15, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Art Wealth Management: Managing Private Art Collections|others=Zorloni, Alessia|isbn=978-3319242415|oclc=957318205|date = August 19, 2016}}</ref> Norman was raised in the [[Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York]] and later became a successful businessman, who sold his building supply company in Washington, D.C. to his employees in what was the first [[employee stock ownership plan]] (ESOP) transaction in the U.S. Norman was also a philanthropist, having founded the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation and the Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service.<ref name="Norman"/> Rales has three brothers: Joshua, [[Steven Rales|Steven]], and Stewart.<ref name="Norman"/> In 1988, he had a [[near-death experience]] during a fishing trip in Russia after a plane exploded 10 feet from their helicopter.<ref name="Washingtonian"/>
+Rales is Jewish and is one of four sons (Joshua, [[Steven Rales|Steven]], and Stewart) of Norman and Ruth Rales (née Abramson).<ref name="Norman">{{cite web |last1=Huriash |first1=Lisa |title=Norman Rales, orphan to wealthy businessman and philanthropist, is dead at 88 |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2012-03-15-fl-norman-rales-obit-20120315-story.html |website=[[Sun Sentinel]] |date=March 15, 2012 |access-date=April 15, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Art Wealth Management: Managing Private Art Collections|others=Zorloni, Alessia|isbn=978-3319242415|oclc=957318205|date = August 19, 2016|publisher=Springer }}</ref> Norman was raised in the [[Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York]] and later became a businessman, who sold his building supply company in Washington, D.C. to his employees in what was the first [[employee stock ownership plan]] (ESOP) transaction in the US. Norman was also a philanthropist, having founded the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation and the Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service.<ref name="Norman"/> In 1988, he took a fishing trip in Russia and nearly died after their helicopter crashed.<ref name="Washingtonian"/>
-Rales has been married twice. He and his first wife, Lyn Goldthorp Rales, had two children before a divorce in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Valdez |first1=Angela |title=A Very Private Collection |url=https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/233740/a-very-private-collection/ |website=Washington City Paper |date=June 6, 2008 |access-date=April 15, 2023}}</ref> He married his second wife, [[Emily Wei]], in 2008.<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref name="washingtonpost.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/peter-fischli-and-david-weiss-exhibition-displays-a-fine-light-smart-touch/2013/05/16/24541638-b9a5-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html|title=Museums|last=Kennicott|first=Philip|date=May 17, 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref name=":2" />  He lives in [[Potomac, Maryland]].<ref name="ForbesBillionaires" /> Rales is the president of the [[National Gallery of Art]] and serves as chairman of the board of [[ESAB]].<ref name="NGA">{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2019/09/27/national-gallery-of-art-darren-walker-mitchell-rales/|title=National Gallery of Art Names Darren Walker Trustee, Mitchell Rales Appointed President|last=Selvin|first=Claire|date=September 27, 2019|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref> He is also a former board member of the [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]] and retired as chair of [[Enovis]] in 2023.<ref name="NGA"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Enovis Announces Board Leadership Transition |url=https://ir.enovis.com/news-releases/news-release-details/enovis-announces-board-leadership-transition |website=ir.enovis.com |access-date=July 8, 2023 |date=March 15, 2023}}</ref> The same year, he was elected as a member of the Business, Corporate, and Philanthropic Leadership class of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web |title=New Members Elected in 2023 |url=https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2023 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |access-date=April 24, 2023}}</ref> Rales signed the [[Giving Pledge]] in 2019, with his net worth being estimated by ''[[Forbes]]'' in July 2023 to be $5.4 billion.<ref name=ForbesBillionaires>{{cite web|title=Forbes profile: Mitchell Rales |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/mitchell-rales/ |website=Forbes |accessdate=July 7, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Emily and Mitchell Rales |url=https://givingpledge.org/pledger?pledgerId=388 |website=givingpledge.org |access-date=March 9, 2023}}</ref>
+Rales has been married twice. He and his first wife, Lyn Goldthorp Rales, had two children before a divorce in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Valdez |first1=Angela |title=A Very Private Collection |url=https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/233740/a-very-private-collection/ |website=Washington City Paper |date=June 6, 2008 |access-date=April 15, 2023}}</ref> He married his second wife, [[Emily Wei]], in 2008.<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref name="washingtonpost.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/peter-fischli-and-david-weiss-exhibition-displays-a-fine-light-smart-touch/2013/05/16/24541638-b9a5-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html|title=Museums|last=Kennicott|first=Philip|date=May 17, 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref name=":2" />  He lives in [[Potomac, Maryland]].<ref name="Forbes">{{cite web|title=Forbes profile: Mitchell Rales |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/mitchell-rales/ |website=Forbes |accessdate=June 17, 2024}}</ref> Rales was the president of the [[National Gallery of Art]] from 2019 to 2024, and is chairman of the board of [[ESAB]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name="NGA">{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2019/09/27/national-gallery-of-art-darren-walker-mitchell-rales/|title=National Gallery of Art Names Darren Walker Trustee, Mitchell Rales Appointed President|last=Selvin|first=Claire|date=September 27, 2019|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref> He is a former board member of the [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]] and retired as chair of [[Enovis]] in 2023.<ref name="NGA"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Enovis Announces Board Leadership Transition |url=https://ir.enovis.com/news-releases/news-release-details/enovis-announces-board-leadership-transition |website=ir.enovis.com |access-date=July 8, 2023 |date=March 15, 2023}}</ref> The same year, he was elected as a member of the Business, Corporate, and Philanthropic Leadership class of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web |title=New Members Elected in 2023 |url=https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2023 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |access-date=April 24, 2023}}</ref> Rales signed [[The Giving Pledge]] in 2019, with his net worth being estimated by ''[[Forbes]]'' in June 2024 to be $4.8 billion.<ref name="Forbes" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Emily and Mitchell Rales |url=https://givingpledge.org/pledger?pledgerId=388 |website=givingpledge.org |access-date=March 9, 2023}}</ref>
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