PERSON: Steven Rattner

Willett Advisors LLC

Chairman

Steven Lawrence Rattner (born July 5, 1952) is an American financier who served as the lead auto advisor (informally the “car czar”) in the United States Treasury Department under President Barack Obama. He was previously a co-founding principal of the Quadrangle Group, a global private equity firm specializing in the media and communications industries. He also spent two decades as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and Lazard Freres & Co., where he became Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer. Rattner began his career as an economic correspondent for The New York Times in New York, Washington and London.

Rattner is currently chairman of Willett Advisors LLC, the investment firm that manages New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s personal and philanthropic assets. He continues to be deeply involved in public policy matters, including as a contributing writer for the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, as the author of a monthly column for the Financial Times, and as the economic analyst for MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

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