Susan McCaw

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Susan McCaw

Susan Leigh Rasinski McCaw (* 1962 in Orange County , California ) is an American entrepreneur and diplomat .

Life

origin

Susan Rasinski was born in California in 1962. She completed her studies at elite US universities. She earned a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University after completing her bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford University with Honors.

She is married to Craig McCaw , a billionaire US cellular pioneer , and has three children. Her husband, whose previous marriage was divorced with media coverage, sold his cellphone company McCaw Cellular to AT&T in 1994 for $ 11.5 billion, making him the 125th richest American.

She and her family own a property in Kirkland, Washington .

Entrepreneurship

Susan McCaw was President of COM Investments and Managing Partner of Eagle Creek Capital, both private investment firms in Washington State. Prior to that, she was the executive director of Robertson Stephens & Company, a San Francisco investment bank. There she was responsible for the financing of emerging companies in the technology industry. McCaw was also a partner in Robertson Stephens' venture capital group. She has also done business research for McKinsey & Company .

Volunteering

Susan McCaw served on the Stanford University Board of Trustees. There she was a board member of the one billion dollar program for the bachelor's degree and was active in the field of the integration of international students. Where they live Seattle in the State of Washington is co-founder and chairman of the board of trustees of "Team Read," was a reading program for pupils at risk of 2nd and 3rd class. She also served on the University of Washington's investment committee and served on the board of directors of Grameen Technology.

Political commitment

McCaw served on the board of directors responsible for funding the 2004 Bush - Cheney election campaign in Washington state and on the national leadership committee of W Stands for Women . She was also on the Advisory Committee of the Republican Party 's Women's Coalition .

In 2006 Susan McCaw became the United States Ambassador to Austria . She was in October 2005 by President George W. Bush, to replace Ambassador Lyons Brown, Jr. has been nominated. She was sworn in by Judge Sandra Day O'Connor at the Supreme Court in Washington DC on November 30, 2005 in a solemn ceremony presided over by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice . With the presentation of her diplomatic credentials to the Austrian President Heinz Fischer on January 9, 2006, she officially took up her post as ambassador.

Your appointment was cautiously received in Austria, McCaw had no previous diplomatic experience. Even her poor knowledge of German did not necessarily improve her appearance. Last but not least, she is troubled by the overwhelming unpopularity of George W. Bush in Europe, as she was one of the major donors appointed as US ambassadors in the 1999-2004 presidential campaigns ($ 226,650). On July 3, 2007, she announced in a broadcast that she wanted to resign from office towards the end of 2007 and leave Austria for "private reasons". At the same time, she described her time in Austria as one of the "most remarkable and rewarding experiences of my life". McCaw left Austria on November 26, 2007.

At the beginning of November 2007, the US President nominated the building contractor and former ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, Charles Gargano , as her successor in the embassy in Vienna's Boltzmanngasse , although the US Senate did not approve . Gargano is one of those US ambassadors who distinguished themselves as financially strong supporters in the election campaign of the then incumbent president. Due to the voting structure in the US Parliament, Gargano was never elected.

On June 27, 2008, the United States Senate approved the appointment of Pennsylvania attorney David F. Girard-diCarlo as the new US Ambassador to Austria.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ McCaw at opensecrets.org ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.opensecrets.org
  2. ↑ ORF announcement on resignation
  3. ↑ Website of the US Ambassador to Austria ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usembassy.at
  4. ^ ORF Vienna: Entrepreneur Gargano new US ambassador
  5. ↑ orf.at: lawyer becomes US ambassador to Austria ( memento of the original from September 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / orf.at

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predecessor Office successor
Lyons Brown, Jr. US Ambassador to Austria
January 2006 to November 2007 		David F. Girard-diCarlo
personal data
SURNAME McCaw, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rasinski McCaw, Susan Leigh (full name); Rasinski, Susan Leigh (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Orange County , California