Tweed Roosevelt
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Tweed Roosevelt (born 1942) is the great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He is a businessman in Boston, Chairman of Roosevelt China Investments. He also occassionally lectures and writes on the topic of his great-grandfather.
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[edit] Childhood and Education
Tweed Roosevelt was born in New York City. He was the son of career CIA officer, Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr. and his first wife, the former Katherine W. ["K.W."] Tweed. Tweed's paternal grandfather was Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Sr., the third son of Theodore Roosevelt.
Tweed acquired an interest in Natural History at the Millbrook School in Millbrook, New York, and then went on to Harvard where he studied social anthropology and graduated in 1964 with a BA in Anthropology and Social Relations. In 1976 he got an MBA in Finance/Banking at Columbia University.
[edit] Early career
From 1967 to 1974, Roosevelt worked in a number of capacities. He was a special assistant to the Administrator of the largest New York City government agency. He worked as staff administrator and treasurer of a non-partisan commission studying the selection process of US Presidential nominees. He also worked as a VISTA volunteer involved in community action and anti-drug programs in the slums of New York City, and spent some time in the employ of the United States Forest Service at the Carson National Forest in Taos, New Mexico.
[edit] Post MBA career
After obtaining his MBA, at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, Roosevelt, from 1976 to 1979, was a lecturer in business at that same school. He also designed and taught the basic quantitative course for MBAs. As well, he directed and taught in executive programs for middle and upper-level business executives from all over the world. And he also served as Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, an academic research organization which published scholarly papers and organized semi-annual seminars for practitioners and academics involved in the quantitative aspects of finance. From 1979 to 1983, Roosevelt was consultant with the MAC Group, a general management consulting firm with 150 professionals in offices in the U.S. and abroad. Tweed was responsible for the practice area of management development; designing and marketing tailored programs for senior managers in the U.S. and overseas.
From 1983 to 1987 Roosevelt was Vice President, Gray-Judson & Howard, Inc. Gray-Judson & Howard is a management consulting firm which provides strategic planning advice to domestic and international clients in both the industrial and service sectors. Projects that Roosevelt directed or participated in included: developing and implementing strategic planning processes for a number of regional brokerage firms; developing a strategic financial profit model for a major law firm; analyzing the market planning system for an international health and fitness service organization; and consulting with other clients including Computervision (a manufacturer of CAS/CAM systems), J. T. Luptin (the largest Coca Cola franchise bottler in the U.S.), Allied Signal Corporation, Kodak, Mutual Life of Canada, and Cardio Fitness Corporation.
As an investment advisor at the Wingate Financial Group from 1987 - 1992, Roosevelt provided financial planning advice to individuals, managing their investments, advising them on real estates, and arranging all aspects of their financial affairs. He also provided investment banking services to small companies, arranging both short-term and long-term financing.
From 1992 to 1996, Roosevelt served as president of the Roosevelt Investment Group, Inc. The Roosevelt Investment Group is a registered investment advisor with offices in New York City and Boston, MA with individual and institutional clients both in the United States and abroad. It manages client's portfolios, investing mostly in U.S. equity and bond market. The firm was formed in 1969 and currently manages assets of approximately one quarter of a billion dollars (US).
From 1996 to 1998, Roosevelt was a vice president at the Center for Blood Research. The Center for Blood Research is a basic research institution affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, funded by Federal grants mostly by NIH and focusing on immunological research. Roosevelt was responsible for the overall administration of the Center and for its development efforts.
Roosevelt has also served as spokesperson for Steiff GmbH which is an international company headquartered in Giengen, Germany that manufactures extremely high quality collectible plush animals, including Teddy Bears. At the beginning of the 1900s, Steiff was the initiator of the original Teddy Bear, which was named after President Theodore Roosevelt. Today it is the leading manufacturer of Teddy Bears worldwide.
[edit] 1992 Trip Down the Rio Roosevelt - River of Doubt
In 1992, Roosevelt spent his 50th birthday following in the footsteps of his famous forebear and rafted down the treacherous 1,000-mile Rio Roosevelt in Brazil. This was the same river that his great-great grandfather explored in 1914. At that time, Theodore Roosevelt and Colonel Candido Rondon of the Brazilian Army navigated the river, then called the Rio da Duvida -- the River of Doubt -- in the heart of the Brazilian rain forest. In a video made about the modern trip, Roosevelt summed the river up saying that "nothing had changed and everything had changed" in the Amazon wilderness during the 78 years between the trips.
The two trips were very different as well. While TR saw only a few pieces of evidence of the war-like tribe, the Cinta Larga (who followed his expedition in the shadows and made no contact. They could not agree whether or not to attack the expedition and so left it alone), Tweed Roosevelt and his modern-day group of some 20 explorers (a group of the same mix of Americans, Brazilians and natives) met the actual members of the Cinta Larga Tribe only to find them watching Star Trek via satellite in their village. Also, while TR had seven 2,500-lb. dugout canoes, Tweed's group had five 500-lb. high-performance white water rafts. Tweed's group also had lightweight nourishing food, modern medicine, insect repellent, a water filtration system, high-tech communications, and an accurate map so they knew how much farther they had to go, items the first team did not have. However, despite all the modern technology, the trip was dangerous and uncomfortable with the heat and the constant bites of tropical insects. It would be a trip Tweed would never forget.
[edit] Contributor to books and projects on Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt is a frequent contributor to books and other projects on Theodore Roosevelt. He presented two seminars during Safari Club International (SCI)’s 2005 Convention: Return for the River of Doubt and Theodore Roosevelt Remembered.
A member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), of Oyster Bay, New York's Trustee Class of 2009, he also serves on that organization's Executive Committee.
Roosevelt is also a charter member of the New England Chapter of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
[edit] Notes
[edit] See also
- Theodore Roosevelt (great-grandfather)
- Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt (grandfather)
- Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr. (father)
[edit] External links
- http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) Official Site
- http://www.tranewengland.org/new_england.htm New England Chapter of the Theodore Roosevelt Association
- http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com Another site on TR not affiliated with TRA
