John William Snow is an American economist,attorney,and businessman who is the former CEO of CSX Corporation and served as the 73rd United States secretary of the treasury under U.S. President George W. Bush. He replaced Secretary Paul H. O'Neill on February 3,2003 and was succeeded by Henry Paulson on July 3,2006. Snow submitted a letter of resignation on May 30,2006,effective "after an orderly transition period for my successor." Snow announced on June 29,2006 that he had completed his last day on the job;Robert M. Kimmitt served as acting secretary until Paulson was sworn in. Snow has since worked as chairman of Cerberus Capital Management.
James A. Johnson was an American businessman,Democratic Party political figure,and chairman and chief executive officer of Fannie Mae. He was the campaign chairman for Walter Mondale's unsuccessful 1984 presidential bid and chaired the vice presidential selection committee for the presidential campaign of John Kerry. He briefly led the vice-presidential selection process for the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee,Senator Barack Obama.
Paula Jon Dobriansky is an American diplomat,public official,and foreign policy expert who served as Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2001–2009) and the President's Envoy to Northern Ireland (2007–2009). A specialist in Central/East European affairs and the former Soviet Union,trans-Atlantic relations,and political-military affairs,Dobriansky held key senior roles in the administrations of five U.S. presidents.
Robert Bruce Zoellick is an American public official and lawyer who was the 11th president of the World Bank Group,a position he held from July 1,2007,to June 30,2012. He was previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs,United States Deputy Secretary of State and U.S. Trade Representative,from February 7,2001,until February 22,2005. Zoellick has been a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs since ending his term with the World Bank. He is currently a Senior Counselor at Brunswick Group.
Victoria "Torie" Clarke is an American communications consultant who has served in several private sector positions and in three Republican presidential administrations,most notably as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under Donald Rumsfeld.
Robert Michael Kimmitt was United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. He was nominated by President Bush on June 29,2005. The United States Senate unanimously confirmed him on July 29,2005,and he was sworn into office on August 16,2005. Kimmitt served through the end of the Bush administration,leaving office on January 20,2009.
Scott Michael Stanzel is an American political advisor who served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy press secretary in the George W. Bush administration from September 2006 to January 2009. After leaving government service,Stanzel has been employed by Microsoft and Amazon. He now works for Capital One as managing vice president of corporate communications.
James Ferguson "Jay" Carney is an American public relations officer,political advisor,and journalist who served as the United States' White House Press Secretary from 2011 to 2014,and Amazon's Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs from 2015 to 2022.
Salvatore Antonio "Tony" Fratto was deputy assistant and deputy press secretary to former United States President George W. Bush.
Mina Nguyen is an American executive at Jane Street Capital. In October 2017,she was appointed as a member of the SEC's Investor Advisory Committee. Prior to Jane Street,she was a Managing Director at AQR Capital Management and senior adviser to its founder Cliff Asness. Nguyen was deputy assistant secretary of Business Affairs at the US Treasury Department from 2006 to 2007,appointed by then-Secretary Hank Paulson. Her career in business and government has revolved around regulations for private pools of capital,retirement security,leverage and derivative use at investment funds and ESG investing. In the 2004 US Presidential Campaign she served as National Business Director for the Bush-Cheney ticket.
Randal Keith Quarles is an American private equity investor and attorney who served as the first Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve for supervision from 2017 to 2021. He concurrently served as the chair of the Financial Stability Board from 2018 to 2021.
Wendy Ruth Sherman is an American diplomat who served as the United States deputy secretary of state from April 2021 to July 2023. She was a professor of the practice of public leadership and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School,a senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group,and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Richard H. Davis Jr. is an American political consultant. He previously served as a partner and chief operating officer of Pegasus Capital Advisors L.P.,a private equity firm specializing in sustainable development projects. He was a managing partner of the business development and public affairs consulting firm Davis-Manafort,located in Alexandria,Virginia. He was the national campaign manager of John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. In that capacity,he oversaw the development and implementation of all campaign strategy and policy development. Davis also served McCain as national campaign manager for his 2000 presidential campaign.
James B. Lockhart III is an American U.S. Navy officer,business executive,and,since September 2009,Vice Chairman of WL Ross &Co,which manages $9 billion of private equity investments,a hedge fund and a Mortgage Recovery Fund. It is a subsidiary of Invesco,a Fortune 500 investment management firm. He coordinates WL Ross's investments in financial services firms and mortgages. Lockhart serves co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center's Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings.
Peter J. Wallison is an American lawyer and the Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He specializes in financial markets deregulation. He was White House Counsel during the Tower Commission's inquiry into the Iran Contra Affair. He was a dissenting member of the 2010 Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission,frequent commentator in the mass media on the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and wrote Hidden in Plain Sight (2015) about the crisis and its legacy.
Emil W. Henry,Jr. is an American business leader and public policy expert on economics,financial institutions,capital markets,and financial regulation. He is a former Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions of the U.S. Treasury Department serving from 2005 to 2007 under Secretaries John Snow and Hank Paulson. He is the CEO and Managing Partner of Henry Tiger LLC and Tiger Infrastructure Partners,a private equity firm.
David George Nason is an American lawyer,government official and corporate executive from Washington,DC. He served as the president and CEO of GE Energy Financial Services,a unit of General Electric (GE) from 2013 to 2018. Previously at GE,he was the Chief Regulatory Officer and Compliance Leader at GE Capital. Nason is one of 190 GE officers globally. From 2005–2009 he served as Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions under Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson,during which time he was a key architect of the federal government's response to the financial crisis of 2008.
Phillip Lee "Phill" Swagel is an American economist who is currently the director of the Congressional Budget Office. As Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 2006 to 2009,he played an important role in the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was part of the U.S. government's response to the financial crisis of 2007–08. He was recently a Professor in International Economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy,a non-resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute,senior fellow at the Milken Institute,and co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative.
Bill Burton is an American political consultant and communication strategist who served as Deputy White House Press Secretary in the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2011.
