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Barre Seid
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Barre Seid (born circa 1932) is an American industrialist and donor to political and cultural causes. He is chairman and CEO of Tripp Lite, a manufacturer of surge protectors formerly known as Trippe Manufacturing Company, and founder of the Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation. In 2009 and 2010, trustees associated with Seid voted to support controversial changes to the mission statement of Shimer College, a small Great Books college in Chicago. He has donated to Chicago Opera Theater and was described as "Chamber Opera Chicago's major underwriter". He enrolled at the University of Chicago in 1946 at the age of 14. He also attended the University of Colorado and the Wharton School of Business. He received an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University.<ref name="biu2010" /> Seid has been identified via an accountancy error as a major funder of the mass production and free distribution of the Clarion Fund's video Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, shortly before the 2008 US presidential election.<ref name="Salon2011-11-16"/> 
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