Chairman & CEO
T Denny Sanford
Chairman & CEO
United National Corp.
Chairman & CEO
Chairman & CEO
T. Denny Sanford is the chairman and CEO of United National Corp. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Mr. Sanford’s career as a businessman has been complemented by his extraordinary generosity as a philanthropist. Included among the numerous recipients of Mr. Sanford’s gifts, that total more than one billion dollars, are: the Edith Sanford Foundation for Breast Cancer that was created in 2012 by a gift of $100 million in honor of Mr. Sanford’s mother who died of breast cancer when he was four years old; the Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System, which renamed itself Sanford Health in 2007, in recognition of a $400 million gift; a $125 million gift in 2014 to establish Sanford Imagenetics, a program that will integrate genomic medicine into primary care for adults; the University of California San Diego which received a $100 million gift for the creation of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center in 2013 to accelerate the translation of stem cell research discoveries by advancing clinical trials and patient therapies; the Burnham Institute for Medical Research that received a $50 million gift in 2010, and recognized its appreciation for both this and a 2008 gift of $20 million to the Sanford Center for Childhood Disease research at Burnham by then changing its name to Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute; a $70 million gift to establish a particle physics laboratory named the Sanford Underground Research Facility; and the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine which received a gift of $30 million in 2008 and expressed its gratitude by renaming itself the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.