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Scott Cook and Signe Ostby are the founders and trustees of Valhalla Foundation. Scott and Signe give philanthropically through both the Foundation and personal donations, and have committed over $700 million to date.
Cook is married to Signe Ostby. Ostby worked for Procter & Gamble and Clorox before she launched Software Publishing Corporation, making productivity software for personal computers. They have three children and live in Woodside, California.
Scott Cook and Signe Ostby are passionately committed to creating opportunities through education, innovation, and medical research. Their support of the Whitehead Fellows Program — through their own gifts and through grants from their Valhalla Foundation — is a highly effective way to do just that.
Jul 31, 2020 · Scott Cook and Signe Ostby. SOURCE OF WEALTH: Co-founder of Intuit. FUNDING AREAS: Early childhood education, K-12 education, medical research, environmental innovation. OVERVIEW: Through the Valhalla Foundation, the couple has provided support for education, medical research, and environmental innovation around the world.
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Signe Ostby. Trustee, Valhalla Foundation. After a career at Procter & Gamble and Clorox, Signe became a leader in hi-tech marketing as a VP at Software Publishing Corporation and as an advisor to IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Signe runs agricultural enterprises in craft production of food and fiber.
Mar 1, 2012 · Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby (herself an MBA), about the hassle of paying bills and organizing household finances, in 1983 Cook cofounded Intuit with the novel idea of producing—as it did with Quicken, its initial offering, and later with its acquisition of TurboTax—financial software as a consumer-oriented, customer-deligh...
Apr 26, 2021 · Valhalla is the grantmaking organization of philanthropists Signe Ostby and Scott Cook—and the new Valhalla Foundation Fellows build on fellowships they initially established in 2015.
