Edward P. Bass

Edward Perry "Ed" Bass (born September 10, 1945(1945-09-10)) is a businessman, financier, philanthropist, and environmentalist who lives in Fort Worth, Texas. He financed the Biosphere 2 project, an artificial closed ecological system, which was built between 1987 and 1991. He is the chairman of Fine Line, an investment and venture-capital management firm in Fort Worth, and president of the board of directors of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, a philanthropic organization. He was listed as #293 on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in 2011, with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion. Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas to Perry R. (1914–2006) and Nancy Lee (née Muse) Bass (b. 1917), the second-oldest of four sons; his...