- Steven Rattner
Steven "Steve" Rattner is an American financier and
private equity investor.As of 2004 he is founder and managing principal at private investment firmQuadrangle Group , which invests media and communications companies in the United States and Europe. [http://www.mbamec.com/speakers2004/stevenrattner.htm] ] .A graduate of
Brown University , Rattner started his career as a reporter with the New York Times, first at the Washington bureau, where he became close friends with Times ownerArthur Sulzberger , who also was at the time working as a reporter, and then at the London bureau. Subsequently, he quit journalism and joinedMorgan Stanley , where he founded their Communications Group. In1989 he joinedLazard as a General Partner; he founded their Media and Communications Group and became their deputy chairman and deputy CEO before leaving to found Quadrangle.He is married to Maureen White, the National Finance Chair for the Democratic Party. He has four children, Rebecca (21), David (18), Daniel (18), and James (16) [ [http://www.democrats.org/a/party/white.html Maureen White Profile] (The Democratic Party)]
Mr. Rattner is not to be confused with the former managing director and head of private equity at Credit Suisse of the same name who resigned in late July, 2008 after an affair scandal.
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