Jay Faison

Jay Faison (born November 29, 1967) is an American entrepreneur and a conservative philanthropist focused on climate change from North Carolina.

[3] Faison earned a BA in economics from UNC Chapel Hill, and graduated from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business with an MBA in 1995.

After meeting his wife Olga, he then returned to the U.S. and bought a small home technology company, which grew to be the largest in the Charlotte region.

[6] Faison decided to sell his majority-share in SnapAV, and donate most of that money, $175 million, to create the ClearPath Foundation.

[8] "I always felt a little alone out there as a Republican," Faison said in an interview, "and so I started ClearPath to create a dialogue around this in a way that hadn’t been done before and sort of be part of the solution.