Roger Altman

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Roger Altman is former United States Deputy Treasury Secretary; he served in that office during the presidency of Bill Clinton. He resigned in 1994 because of a record keeping scandal.

He was an advisor to John Kerry during Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In his professional pursuits Roger Altman is a senior investment banker. He was a general partner of Lehman Brothers from 1974 to 1977. From 1977 to 1981 he served as the Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury, during which time he helped oversee the then-troubled financial affairs of Chrysler. In 1981, he returned to Lehman Brothers, where he became the co-head of investment banking and served on the board of the company and the management committee. In 1987, Mr. Altman joined the Blackstone Group as vice-chairman, head of merger and acquisition advisory and a member of the investment committee. In 1993 Mr Altman returned to Washington DC to serve as the Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury before co-founding Evercore Partners, an investment and advisory company in New York, in 1996. He is currently the Chairman and Co-CEO.