Pursuits
Goldman Partner to Help Raise Funds for Crick Institute
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Charles Manby, a senior partner at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., will lead a 100 million-pound ($152 million) fundraising campaign for the Francis Crick Institute, which will be Europe’s largest biomedical research center.
Manby will be chairman of the 16-member board collecting the money for Cancer Research UK, which is contributing to the institute’s 650 million-pound construction cost and its 120 million-pound annual budget. The board includes the chief executive officers of International Standard Asset Management, Ted Baker Plc, Ingenious, Newton Investment Management, New York Times Co., and WPP Plc, Cancer Research UK said today in an e-mailed statement.