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Jarrett is also a Board member of the Chicago Stock Exchange where she served as chairman from 2004 - 2007. She's one of Obama's most trusted and longest serving advisors and campaign aides.
Pete Rouse
He's a long-time Capitol Hill insider for over 30 years. Once served as Senate majority leader Tom Daschle's chief of staff and was known as "the 101st senator" because of his knowledge, skill and contacts. He's been allied to Obama since 2004. Wrote his "Strategic Plan" for his first year in the Senate and also served as his chief of staff.
All three individuals are expected to have key roles in the new administration once it takes over in January as well as others on the Transition Project. It's been around for months as a fund-raising front. The Chicago Sun Times said it was to raise money from individual donors up to a maximum $5000 and do no internet or direct mail solicitations. It helped Obama raise $600 million for his campaign, and though he claimed transparency as one of his principles, he made no "voluntary early disclosures." Money raised is also being used for his transition period with no mention of how he'll use any residual amounts.
Other Transition Project Members
Carol Browner
She served as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for eight years under Bill Clinton. The longest of anyone in that position. Earlier she worked for Citizen Action in Washington. As general counsel for the Florida House of Representatives Government Operations Committee and for Senator Lawton Chiles. In addition, as Senator Al Gore's Legislative Director. In 2001, she joined the Albright Group, a global strategy firm headed by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright.
William Daley
Brother of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley. He's a lawyer and was Clinton's secretary of commerce from 1997 - 2000. He's a well-connected insider and member of numerous high-powered organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations, Friends of Hillary, Friends of Joe Lieberman, Obama for America, and a number of corporate boards. Companies like Boeing, Abbott Labs, Merck and Boston Properties. He's also vice-chairman of Evercore Partners, a 1996-founded investment banking "boutique providing advisory services to prominent multinational corporations on significant mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructuring, and other strategic corporate transactions."
In the Clinton administration, Daley was instrumental in getting NAFTA passed. He's also a past president of SBC Communications and was later Midwest chairman of JP Morgan Bank among other positions, including the practice of law.
Michael Froman
He's president and CEO of CitiInsurance, a branch of banking giant Citigroup. Also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Earlier and in the Clinton administration, he served as treasury department chief of staff from 1977 to 1999. From 1993 - 1995, he was director for International Affairs on the National Economic Council and the National Security Council at the White House.
Federico Pena
He held two cabinet posts under Bill Clinton - from 1993 - 1997 as transportation secretary and from 1997 - 1998 as energy secretary. In 1992, he advised then governor Clinton on transportation issues. Since 1998, he's been affiliated with the investment firm, Vestar Capital Partners, as senior advisor and is now one of its managing directors.
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