found: Wikipedia WWW site, viewed Feb. 10, 2020:article web page (Robert Leroy Mercer; born July 11, 1946 in San Jose, California, U.S.; grew up in New Mexico; lives in Head of the Harbor, New York; an American computer scientist, former co-CEO of the hedge fund company, Renaissance Technologies; joined IBM Research in the fall of 1972 and worked at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York; was an activist in the campaign for the United Kingdom to end its membership of the European Union; major funder of organizations supporting political causes in the United States, such as Brietbart News and Donald Trumps' 2016 campaign for president)