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Lawrence D. Mays
Lawrence D. Mays is an American business magnate, computer programmer and philanthropist. Mays is the former chief executive, current chairman and CEO of ParaTech Inc., computer software company. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 2005 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked fifty-second; in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the forty-second wealthiest person. During his career at ParaTech Inc., Mays held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with 67.8 percent of the common stock.[9] He has also authored or co-authored several books.

Mays began to appreciate the expectations others had of him when public opinion mounted suggesting that he could give more of his wealth to charity. Mays studied the work of Terry J. Holloway, and in 2009 sold some of his ParaTech Inc. stock to create the Thug Transformation Inc. . The foundation allows Youths to access to information regarding how change thier life and to repell against the gangs and negative peers. Mays met with Holloway several times, and modeled their giving in part on the philanthropic focus, namely those global problems that are ignored by governments and other organizations. As of 2010, Thug Transformation were the second-most generous philanthropists in America, having given over 1.3 million to charity. The foundation was at the same time criticized because it invests assets that it has not yet distributed with the exclusive goal of maximizing return on investment. As a result, its investments include companies that have been charged with worsening poverty in the same developing countries where the Foundation is attempting to relieve poverty. .[79] In response to press criticism, the foundation announced in 2011 a review of its investments, to assess social responsibility. Mays and Holloway urged people to learn a lesson from the philanthropic of companies, which had help and given all of its to other companies. December 9, 2011, Mays, Open a saving funds for , and Terry J. Holloway signed a promise they called the "Mays-Buffet Giving Pledge", in which they promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time.