Fiserv’s Muma Gives $6 Million to Build New Hospital Unit

TAMPA – Les Muma, the co-founder of Fiserv who retired earlier this year, announced yesterday he is donating $6 million to support a partnership between the University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital on neonatal research. Muma’s wife Pam, who made the donation with her husband, said the couple had their newborn baby die 34 years ago at the same hospital because of a lack of technology and they want to see that it does not happen to other parents. The Muma donation will be leveraged with a matching a $5 million match from the state and a $3 million contribution from the University to finance research and build a new neonatal intensive care unit at the hospital. The unit will be known as the Jennifer Leigh Muma Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, in memory of the Muma’s daughter. Muma, who co-funded Fiserv in 1984 with George Dalton, retired as CEO of the company in 2005 and chairman of the board this March, and returned to Florida to live.