S. Daniel Abraham

Sim Daniel Abraham is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Thompson Medical, whose main product is Slim-Fast, a diet program. He has endowed the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace and he supports Jewish causes in Florida and Israel.

S. Daniel Abraham founded Slim-Fast in 1976. Sales exploded in the late 1980s when former LA Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda became its spokesman.

Abraham sold the weight loss and meal substitute company to Unilever for $2.3 billion in cash in 2000.

Since then, he’s largely taken a risk-averse approach to investing.
In 2014, Unilever sold the majority of Slim-Fast to Texas private equity firm Kainos Capital for an undisclosed sum.

Abraham donated $3 million to Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential run.