Chris Gabrieli

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Christopher Gabrieli is a Hungarian-American businessman and three-time political candidate. A member of the Democratic Party, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1998, yet won his Party's nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 2002.^[1] In 2006 Gabrieli unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts.

1 Biography
2 On the issues
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Gabrieli's parents were Hungarian immigrants Elmér Gabrieli (a physician; d. 2000) and Lilla Elizabeth (Eross) (d. 2006). Chris Gabrieli was born in Buffalo, New York in 1960. He has one brother, John, an MIT professor. After graduating from Harvard College, he was forced to drop out of Columbia University’s medical school to save his family’s business, a healthcare system software company, from bankruptcy.^[2]

Gabrieli spent 15 years at Bessemer Venture Partners, investing in and helping innovative young businesses succeed. During his time there, he invested over $1 billion in the economy.

Gabrieli served as Chairman of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s Task Force on After-School Time and was a founding partner and Chairman of Boston’s After-School for All Partnership, a $25 million public-private partnership. Massachusetts 2020 led a pro bono project to help the $30 billion Massachusetts state pension fund (PRIM) evaluate investing some assets along a “double bottom line” strategy to yield both market-rate returns and economic benefits to Massachusetts, such as creating new jobs and expanding home ownership. As a result of the study, PRIM adopted a formal policy to commit up to $600 million in this direction.

From 1996 to 2002 Gabrieli served as Chairman of MassINC, a non-partisan, independent policy think tank. He serves on a number of non-profit boards including The Boston Foundation, The Boston Plan for Excellence, The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, the Boston Public Library Foundation, and both the Harvard School of Public Health and the BBoston University School of Public Health. In 2002, Gabrieli won a three-way primary to become the Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor of Massachusetts.

Gabrieli is currently CEO of the Ironwood Equity Fund, a Small Business Investment Corporation (SBIC) that provides growth capital to expansion and later stage businesses in the Northeast. Ironwood focuses on the healthcare, value-added manufacturing, business services, consumer products and retail industries.

Gabrieli lives in Boston with his wife Hilary and their five children: John, Abigail, Polly, Lilla, and Nicholas.^[3]

[edit] On the issues

Taxes: Supports cutting the income tax to 5 percent, but only when the economy is growing
Cape Wind project: Supports;
Same-Sex Marriage: Supports;
Stem Cell research: Supports spending $1 billion over the next decade on science innovation, including up to $500 million on stem-cell research ^[4];
Death Penalty: Opposes;
Abortion rights: Supports;
MCAS: Supports;
MBTA fare increase (Proposed): Opposes ^[5]
Illegal Immigration Opposes