Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Patricia ‘Patty’ Ann Quillin is an American philanthropist and the wife of Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix.
- Formerly the President of Santa Cruz Natural History Museum, Patty now sits on the Board of Directors.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Patty attended John S. Burke Catholic High School in Goshen, New York. She later on graduated from Cornell University.
- Little information is available on her early life nor on how she meet her husband, Reed, a former Marine corp and member of the Peace Corp.
- She married Reed Hastings in 1991 when the entrepreneur was setting up his company Pure Software. They have two children, whose names were kept away from social media.
- As founder and CEO of Netflix, Reed is already a billionaire. Both Patty and Reed are philantrophists, donating vast amounts to charity. They launched the $100 million Hastings Fund.
- In 2018, both of them pledged half of their family wealth to charity as part of the Giving Pledge initiative.
- The couple lives in a huge mansion in Santa Cruz and beng animal lovers, their house is overrun with their pet animals.