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| birth_date = {{birth date|1947|10|31}}
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| birth_place = [[Tacoma, Washington]], U.S.
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| occupation = [[InterMedia Partners]], Trine Acquisition Corp.
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”’Leo J. Hindery Jr.”’ (October 31, 1947 – September 17, 2025)
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”’Leo J. Hindery Jr.”’ (October 31, 1947 – September 17, 2025) was , fund manager, public-company chairman and CEO, author, political activist and philanthropist.
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Hindery served as chairman and CEO of Trine Acquisition Corp., a NYSE-listed SPAC which went public in March 2019 and went effective with its merger with Desktop Metal, Inc. (NYSE: DM) in early 2021,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/01/29/cable-legend-leo-hindery-to-make-acquisition.aspx|title = A Cable Legend Seeks a Big Acquisition: Should You Invest?|date = January 29, 2020}}</ref> and of a follow-on NYSE-listed SPAC under the Trine name that went public in the third quarter of 2021 and returned funds to its public investors in the second quarter of 2023.
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In 1988, Hindery founded and ran as managing partner [[InterMedia Partners]], a series of media industry investment funds. In November 1999, Hindery was named chairman and CEO of GlobalCenter Inc., a major Internet services company which fourteen months later merged into Exodus Communications, Inc.<ref name=”Exodus Agrees to Acquire Unit Of Global Crossing for $6.5 Billion”>{{cite web
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In 1988, Hindery founded and ran as managing partner [[InterMedia Partners]], a series of media industry investment funds. In November 1999, Hindery was named chairman and CEO of GlobalCenter Inc., a major Internet services company which fourteen months later merged into Exodus Communications, Inc.<ref name=”Exodus Agrees to Acquire Unit Of Global Crossing for $6.5 Billion”>{{cite web
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He was co-founder along with Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergey Mironov of Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA) and recipient of the Asia Society’s Founders Award for his efforts in the international fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. From 2005 through 2007, Hindery was Democrat-appointed vice chair of the Presidential & Congressional HELP Commission which made recommendations to Congress for the reform of U.S. foreign assistance.{{cn|date=August 2023}}
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He was co-founder along with Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergey Mironov of Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA) and recipient of the Asia Society’s Founders Award for his efforts in the international fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. From 2005 through 2007, Hindery was Democrat-appointed vice chair of the Presidential & Congressional HELP Commission which made recommendations to Congress for the reform of U.S. foreign assistance.{{cn|date=August 2023}}
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Hindery lived in [[Cornelius, North Carolina]]. He had an MBA from the [[Stanford Graduate School of Business]], and a BA from [[Seattle University]].{{cn|date=August 2023}}
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Hindery lived in [[Cornelius, North Carolina]]. He had an MBA from the [[Stanford Graduate School of Business]], and a BA from [[Seattle University]].{{cn|date=August 2023}}
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==Politics==
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==Awards==
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* was inducted in the [[West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame]] in 2021.
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Leo Hindery
