Who Is John Fisher Of The Gap?

John Fisher is the youngest of Gap founders Doris and Donald Fisher’s three sons.

He was appointed to Gap’s board of directors in October 2018. His brothers Robert and William also sit on the board.

John is a founding partner of investment firm Sansome Partners and sits on the board of the Silicon Schools Fund.

The three Fisher brothers attended Princeton University and went on to study at Stanford University’s School of Business.

John is a chairman of the Knowledge Is Power Program Foundation (KIPP), a non-profit network of public charter schools.

After graduate school, he took a job for a real estate company that did business with his parents’ company, the Gap.

The business was not successful and he became president of Pisces Inc., the Fisher family’s investment management company.

He established a relationship with Lewis Wolff to jointly purchase several Fairmont hotels in San Francisco, which led to his investment in the Oakland Athletics.

He also has stakes in Major League Soccer’s San Jose Earthquakes and Scotland’s Glasgow Celtic football club.

Fisher has been the majority owner of the Athletics since he and Wolff closed on their joint purchase of the team in 2005 and is now also the managing general partner.

In November 2016, Wolff sold his 10% share in the Athletics to Fisher giving Fisher full ownership of the team.