Steven Rattner

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Steven "Steve" Rattner is an American venture capitalist. As of 2004 he is founder and managing principal at private investment firm Quadrangle Group, which invests media and communications companies in the United States and Europe. ^[1].

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 owner Arthur Sulzberger, who also was at the time working as a reporter, and then at the London bureau. Subsequently, he quit journalism and joined Morgan Stanley, where he founded their Communications Group. In 1989 he joined Lazard as a General Partner; he founded their Media and Communications Group and became their deputy chairman and deputy CEO before leaving to found Quadrangle. ^[2]

He is married to Maureen White, a Democratic Party officer.^[3]