Robert Mercer is an American computer scientist and hedge fund manager who has a net worth of $900 million. Robert Mercer was born in San Jose, California in July 1946. He is the co-CEO of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies and is responsible for being an early developer of artificial intelligence.
Mercer earned his MS and PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has provided major funding for right-wing organizations such as Breitbart News. Mercer has also been a large contributor to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Brexit in the U.K. Mercer is also the principal benefactor of the Make America Number 1 super PAC. A former employee of Mercer’s claims that he called the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a “major mistake”. Mercer owns one of the nation’s largest collections of historical firearms and machine guns and owns a weapon used by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie The Terminator.
| Net Worth: | $900 Million |
| Date of Birth: | Jul 11, 1946 (75 years old) |
| Place of Birth: | San Jose, California, U.S. |