Throughout his career, Ted Turner has received recognition for his entrepreneurial acumen, sharp business skills, leadership qualities, and his unprecedented philanthropy.

Over the past four decades, Turner stepped into the international spotlight with one accomplishment after another. Whether in billboard advertisement, cable television, sports team ownership, sailing, environmental initiatives or philanthropy - Turner's vision, determination, generosity and forthrightness have consistently given the world reason to take notice.

Currently, Turner is chairman of the Turner Foundation, which supports efforts for improving air and water quality, developing a sustainable energy future to protect our climate, safeguarding environmental health, maintaining wildlife habitat protection, and developing practices and policies to curb population growth rates; co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which works to close the growing and increasingly dangerous gap between the threat from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and the global response; chairman of the United Nations Foundation, which promotes a more peaceful, prosperous and just world; and a partner in the successful Ted's Montana Grill restaurant chain, which to date, operates more than 40 locations nationwide.

Turner is also chairman of Turner Enterprises, Inc., which manages his private landholdings in an economically sustainable and ecologically sensitive manner while promoting the conservation of native species. He owns more than two million acres of land in the U.S. and Argentina.

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