Roger Charles Altman (born April 2, 1946)[1] is an American investment banker, the founder and senior chairman of Evercore, and a former Democratic politician.
In 1969 he earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, but took time off in 1968 to work in Indiana organizing volunteers for Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign.
[6] After graduating from business school in 1969, Altman began working at Lehman Brothers, where he grew close to chairman Peter G. Peterson.
[8] Once on the job, Altman was viewed as "the favorite to succeed the 73-year-old Treasury Secretary," and he played a large role in some of the Clinton administration's biggest legislative victories, such as the passage of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 and the "approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"[9] However, he resigned in 1994, after it was revealed that Altman had notified the Clinton White House of the criminal referrals made by the Resolution Trust Corporation.
[2] In 1995, instead of returning to Blackstone,[13] he co-founded Evercore, an "independent investment banking advisory firm" in New York City, and currently serves as its chairman.
[18] In 2010, President Barack Obama interviewed him as a potential candidate to replace Larry Summers as his National Economic Council director,[9] a job that ultimately went to Gene Sperling.
James N. English of Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. performed the marriage ceremony at the San Luis Rey Chapel at Cat Cay in the Bahamas.