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'''Robert E. Grady''' is an [[United States of America|American]] [[venture capital]]ist and [[investment banking|investment banker]], and a senior-level public official. Currently, he is managing director at Cheyenne Capital Fund<ref name="Geron">{{cite web|last=Geron|first=Tomio|title=Ex-Carlyle Partner Grady Seeks Opportunity in Wide Open Spaces|url=http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/02/17/cheyenne-capitals-grady-sees-opportunity-in-wide-open-spaces/?blog_id=106&post_id=5079|publisher=The Wall Street Journal|accessdate=24 July 2010}}</ref>, Chairman of the State of [[New Jersey]] Council of Economic Advisors for Governor [[Chris Christie|Christopher J. Christie]]<ref name="Bloomberg">{{cite web|last=Dopp|first=Terrence|title=Governor-elect Christie Names Eristoff as Treasurer (Update4)|url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-14/governor-elect-christie-names-eristoff-as-treasurer-update3-.html|publisher=Bloomberg|accessdate=24 July 2010}}</ref>, and a member of the New Jersey State Investment Council<ref name="Blognj">{{cite web|title=Disclosing donors; saving NJN; new Investment Council chief|url=http://blog.nj.com/njv_auditor/2010/06/disclosing_donors_saving_njn_n.html|publisher=NJ.com|accessdate=24 July 2010}}</ref>. Grady also serves as a director of multiple companies; serves on the National Commission on [[Energy Policy]]<ref name=Marketwire />; is a member of the Board of Governors of the [[Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School]], the International Advisory Board of The [[Harvard University|Harvard]] Center for Environmental Economics, and the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]<ref name=Marketwire />; is a Visiting Fellow at [[Stanford University]]’s [[Hoover Institution]]; and is a financial and policy adviser to numerous political campaigns and government officials of national import. |
'''Robert E. Grady''' is an [[United States of America|American]] [[venture capital]]ist and [[investment banking|investment banker]], and a senior-level public official. Currently, he is managing director at Cheyenne Capital Fund<ref name="Geron">{{cite web|last=Geron|first=Tomio|title=Ex-Carlyle Partner Grady Seeks Opportunity in Wide Open Spaces|url=http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/02/17/cheyenne-capitals-grady-sees-opportunity-in-wide-open-spaces/?blog_id=106&post_id=5079|publisher=The Wall Street Journal|accessdate=24 July 2010}}</ref>, Chairman of the State of [[New Jersey]] Council of Economic Advisors for Governor [[Chris Christie|Christopher J. Christie]]<ref name="Bloomberg">{{cite web|last=Dopp|first=Terrence|title=Governor-elect Christie Names Eristoff as Treasurer (Update4)|url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-14/governor-elect-christie-names-eristoff-as-treasurer-update3-.html|publisher=Bloomberg|accessdate=24 July 2010}}</ref>, and a member of the New Jersey State Investment Council<ref name="Blognj">{{cite web|title=Disclosing donors; saving NJN; new Investment Council chief|url=http://blog.nj.com/njv_auditor/2010/06/disclosing_donors_saving_njn_n.html|publisher=NJ.com|accessdate=24 July 2010}}</ref>. Grady also serves as a director of multiple companies; serves on the National Commission on [[Energy Policy]]<ref name=Marketwire />; is a member of the Board of Governors of the [[Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School]], the International Advisory Board of The [[Harvard University|Harvard]] Center for Environmental Economics, and the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]<ref name=Marketwire />; is a Visiting Fellow at [[Stanford University]]’s [[Hoover Institution]]; and is a financial and policy adviser to numerous political campaigns and government officials of national import. |
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Born | 1959 (age 64–65)[1] |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
= Stanford Graduate School of Business
Robert E. Grady is an American venture capitalist and investment banker, and a senior-level public official. Currently, he is managing director at Cheyenne Capital Fund[3], Chairman of the State of New Jersey Council of Economic Advisors for Governor Christopher J. Christie[4], and a member of the New Jersey State Investment Council[5]. Grady also serves as a director of multiple companies; serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy[6]; is a member of the Board of Governors of the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, the International Advisory Board of The Harvard Center for Environmental Economics, and the Council on Foreign Relations[6]; is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution; and is a financial and policy adviser to numerous political campaigns and government officials of national import.
Personal, Media, and Academia
Robert Grady grew up in Livingston, New Jersey and graduated with honors from Harvard University[6] where he was an editor of The Harvard Crimson[7] and a student leader in the movement to get Harvard to divest from apartheid-era South Africa. Grady continued his advocacy of the divestment cause in advising the former Governor of New Jersey, Thomas Kean, to sign a bill requiring New Jersey’s pension fund to divest stocks of companies doing business in South Africa. This led the New York Times, in a profile of the then-27 year old speechwriter, to comment that Grady was a “wordsmith who drew from his own deep well” in crafting a speech “ringing with conviction” that not only echoed Kean’s sentiments but represented his own “declaration of faith” on the issue of divestment[citation needed]. Grady earned a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business[6], where he later served as a faculty member and lecturer on public management from 1994-2004[8]. A venture capital industry leader and growth company expert, he has published numerous articles and appeared in the Wall Street Journal, TIME magazine, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and others[citation needed]. He is described in Jeffrey Birnbaum’s The Money Men as a “highly successful” investment banker[9]. Grady is a frequent and popular commentator, appearing on ABC’s Nightline, CNBC’s Squawk Box and Street Signs, the CBS Evening News, CNN’s Crossfire and Moneyline, PBS, Fox Business News and other major media outlets[citation needed] as a spokesman for growth-oriented economic policies, market-based environmental regulation, and generally conservative fiscal positions.
Business career
Grady is a former managing director, member of the Management Committee, and head of Venture and Growth Capital at the Carlyle Group[1], the world’s second largest private equity firm[2]. During his tenure at Carlyle, Grady served for six years as a director and two as chairman (2006 to 2007) of the National Venture Capital Association (“NVCA”)[1], which represents more than 400 U.S. venture capital firms. He was a director of several Carlyle companies, including Blackboard Inc.[3], AuthenTec[1], Wall Street Institute[3], Ingenio, USBX, Panasas, Secure Elements[8], and others.
In the 1990s, Grady was a managing director and member of the Management Committee at Robertson Stephens[3], an investment bank focused on growth companies in technology and healthcare, that was acquired by Bank of America and subsequently by BankBoston. Grady is a director of companies Maxim Integrated Products[1], one of the world’s leading producers of analog semiconductors; Stifel Financial[10], a major brokerage and asset management firm which acquired Thomas Weisel Partners Group in 2010; Eleutian Technology[3], a provider of online English language training; eScreen[6], which provides instant drug testing products and services; Symbio[6], a provider of outsourced software development; and Viator[6], an online travel company. In the non-profit world, Grady is a trustee of the Jackson Hole Land Trust in Wyoming and the Resources First Foundation. He was a long-time trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)[6], and was chairman of the board of Resources for the Future (“RFF”).
Political Career
Grady began his career as legislative assistant and then chief of staff for the late New Jersey Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick[11]. He went on to serve as communications director for former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean[7]. Grady was a speechwriter and policy adviser for George H.W. Bush during the 1988 Presidential campaign[7], and served in the White House for Bush as Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) for Natural Resources, Energy and Science (1989-1991)[11]; Executive Associate Director of OMB[1]; and as Deputy Assistant to the President (1991-1993)[3]. He was widely known for advising Bush in the crafting of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, and helping to shepherd that legislation through Congress[11].
Since then, Grady has served as a part-time adviser to a number of political figures. In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Grady to be a member of the Advisory Committee on Trade and Policy Negotiations (ACTPN)[12] and he was appointed by the Administrator of NASA during the George W. Bush administration to be a member of the NASA Advisory Council’s Task Force on the cost and management of the International Space Station[6].
Noted early on by Newsweek as “one of three thirty-somethings to watch” (along with Condoleezza Rice and Robert Zoellick) and as OMB Director Richard Darman’s “polished No. 2” in George H.W. Bush’s White House[citation needed], Grady has emerged in recent years as an adviser to various leading Republican candidates and public officials. He served as co-chairman of George W. Bush’s campaign in California in both 2000 and 2004, and as an architect of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s environmental and economic policies during the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election and member of Schwarzenegger’s transition team. Most recently, Grady has served as co-chairman and member of the Transition Task Force on Budget and Taxes for Governor Chris Christie in New Jersey[2], who has been hailed in conservative editorial pages such as The Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal for his budget cuts[13]. Consequently, Grady currently wields “lots of economic clout” in leading the Governor’s Council on Economic Advisors and representing Christie on the State Investment Council at a time when “all eyes are on New Jersey.”[citation needed] Press reports have also cited Grady as the author of Governor Christie’s Inaugural Address and his budget addresses to Joint Sessions of the New Jersey Legislature.[citation needed] He is working on the finance team for Meg Whitman's 2010 gubernatorial campaign.[14]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Robert E. Grady Profile". Forbest. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- ^ a b c McNichol, Dunstan (11). "New Jersey's Christie Names Former Carlyle Partner to Investment Council". Bloomberg. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
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- ^ Dopp, Terrence. "Governor-elect Christie Names Eristoff as Treasurer (Update4)". Bloomberg. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- ^ "Disclosing donors; saving NJN; new Investment Council chief". NJ.com. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Symbio Group (19). "Robert E. Grady Joins Symbio's Board of Directors". Marketwire. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
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ignored (help) - ^ a b c McAllister, Bill. "Speech Writer Named a Senior Adviser". The Washington Post. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- ^ a b Grady, Robert (21). "TESTIMONY OF ROBERT E. GRADY MANAGING DIRECTOR, CARLYLE VENTURE PARTNERS, and MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, NATIONAL VENTURE CAPITAL ASSOCIATION ("NVCA") BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON CAPITAL MARKETS, INSURANCE AND GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED ENTERPRISES COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES" (PDF). Retrieved 24 July 2010.
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ignored (help) - ^ Birnbaum, Jeffrey H. (2000). The Money Men: The Real Story of Fund-raising's Influence on Political Power in America. Crown. p. 287.
- ^ Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. "Robert Grady Joins Thomas Weisel Partners' Board of Directors". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- ^ a b c Hoffman, David. "Bush Names USIA Director, Fills Slots at OMB; President-Elect Digs Into Network of Old Friends, Political Allies for Key Positions". The Washington Post. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- ^ "Membership: Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN)" (PDF). p. 14. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- ^ Fleisher, Lisa. "Governor Christie rules out 2012 run for president". NorthJersey.com. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
- ^ "Meg Whitman's Finance Committee Leadership Team". Meg Whitman for Governor. 26. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
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