Richard C. Breeden

Richard Carroll Breeden (* 6. December 1949 in Levittown , New York ) is an American lawyer , politician of the Republican Party , business manager and diplomat , who between 1989 and 1993 Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( Securities and Exchange Commission ) was.

Life

After attending school, Breeden first completed an undergraduate degree at Stanford University , from which he graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A subsequent postgraduate study of law at the Law School of Harvard University , he finished 1975 with a Juris Doctor (JD). He then worked as a lawyer in New York City between 1976 and 1981 .

After the election of US President Ronald Reagan , Breeden was first administrative assistant to the Undersecretary in the Department of Labor in 1981 , before he was then deputy legal advisor (Deputy Counsel) to Vice President George HW Bush between 1982 and 1985 .

After a subsequent tenure as a partner in the Washington, DC branch of Baker Botts , a law firm with 700 attorneys and headquartered in Houston , he served briefly on the staff of the White House in 1989 as assistant to the US president for analytical questions.

Thereafter, Breeden was appointed on October 11, 1989 by President George HW Bush to succeed David Sturtevant Ruder as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC, the US banking regulator. He held this position until April 7, 1993 and was then replaced by Arthur Levitt .

After retiring from government service, he was chairman of the supervisory board of the management consultancy Coopers & Lybrand between 1993 and 1996 and has been managing director of the consulting company Richard C. Breeden & Co. since 1996 and, since 2005, also chairman of the board and chief executive officer (CEO) of Breeden Capital Management LLC .

Breeden, who since 2002 Corporate Controller of the world's third-largest phone company WorldCom and since 2003 the newspaper publisher Hollinger International or the Sun-Times Media Group is also assumed, numerous memberships of supervisory boards in the private sector as the restaurant chain Applebee's , the bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA ) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Breeden, who is also the corporate controller of the real estate finance company Fannie Mae , has acted since 2007 and has been chairman of the supervisory board of the financial services provider H&R Block since 2007 .

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