Steven T. Huff

Steven T. Huff (born 1951) is an American multi-millionaire astrophysicist, inventor and philanthropist, who after his careers in the United States Army and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) founded defense intelligence related companies he eventually sold using the money to build one of the largest homes in the United States named Pensmore, and who is now retired and runs his private independent Pensmore Foundation dedicated to philanthropy, voluntarism and grant making.

Early life, education, and career

Huff grew up in Scottsville, Virginia, moving to the Ozarks when he was 10, after which he attended Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia graduating Summa Cum Laude and receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in physics. He then attended California Institute of Technology where he received his Master of Science degree in physics and became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. After leaving university, Huff served in the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency from 1975 to 1978, after which he served in the CIA from 1979 to 1983. After leaving the CIA, Huff was a co-founder of BDS, Inc. (a Sterling, Virginia-based computer reseller valued at $27 million) that, in 1992, merged with BDS Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Titan Corporation). In 1985, Huff, also, founded Sensor Systems, Inc. as a consulting operation merging it with, in 1993, another company he founded named Overwatch Systems, Ltd. that delivered multi-source intelligence to the United States Department of Defense and where he served as its vice president and Chief technology officer (CTO). In 2009, Huff sold his companies Overwatch Geospatial Systems and Overwatch Tactical Operations to Textron Systems for what The Kansas City Star said was a gazillion dollars.[1][2][3][4]

Pensmore

In 2008, Huff bought TF Concrete Forming Systems[5] and began construction of one of the largest homes in America named Pensmore, which was completed in 2016 and is located in the Ozark Mountains near Highlandville, Missouri.

Pensmore Foundation

In 2005, Huff founded the Pensmore Foundation whose National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) are listed as Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations: Private Independent Foundations”.[6]

References
  1. "Executive Profile Steven T. Huff". Bloomberg News. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
  2. "12 People You Need to Know in 2015: Steve Huff". Springfield Business Journal. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
  3. "72,215 Square Foot Mega Mansion Being Built In Missouri". Retrieved 2017-08-23.
  4. Bradley, Donald (25 December 2015). "Atop an Ozark mountain, Chateau Pensmore is a mansion built for millennia". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved 23 August 2017. sold a company for a gazillion dollars
  5. "TF Concrete Forming Systems". Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  6. "Pensmore Foundation, Steven T Huff Et Al Ttee in Leesburg, Virginia (VA)". Retrieved 23 August 2017.
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