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CURRENT EVENT California CEO Forum Presents:
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Successful Business Builder Our November 16th breakfast speaker will be Austin Beutner, who left a successful investment banking career to become the $1-per-year First Deputy Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, and is now a candidate to succeed Anthony Villaraigosa as Mayor of the City.
He spent the last year and a half working as deputy to Mayor Villaraigosa, at $1 per year, striving to make the City more efficient, business-friendly and responsive to its residents. He also ran the Department of Water & Power for six months. He is credited with helping to persuade Google to open a major facility in Venice; getting the Gensler architectural firm to move its 250-person office from Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles; luring Chinese electric car maker BYD to the City; and easing the way for reconstruction of the Wilshire Grand Hotel. He also helped obtain a 3-year tax holiday for firms that move to the city. His candidacy is endorsed by former Mayor Richard Riordan, who was the person who persuaded Mr. Beutner to leave an extraordinarily successful career in the private sector to serve in City Hall. At 29, he became the youngest person to be named a partner at Blackstone, one of the world's leading private equity firms. He went on to co-found the investment banking firm Evercore Partners with former Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Atlman. After the fall of the Soviet Union, at the request of the U.S. State Department he led a team that helped Russia transition to a market economy. Facing a crowded field, he says he is running for Mayor because "We need to change the culture of City Hall from one that says 'no' to new ideas to one that says 'yes' — one that will turn those ideas into realities."
Wednesday,
November 16, 2011 $65 registration includes breakfast and parking. Host:
John
Thrasher, Managing Director,
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Mr.
Beutner brings a remarkable background, in both business and
public service, to his quest for what would be his first elected
position.