William Eacho

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William Eacho

William Carlton Eacho III. (* 1954 ) is an American manager and was the United States Ambassador to Austria from 2009 to 2013

Life

Eacho graduated from Duke University in North Carolina in economics, politics and law, from which he graduated magna cum laude . He initially worked as a financial analyst in the corporate finance department of the Hornblower & Weeks investment bank in New York . After graduating with an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1979, he became a partner in the same financial company that now traded as Loeb, Rhoades, Hornblower & Company in Los Angeles .

Between 1988 and 1998 Eacho owned or managed various US catering companies , including Atlantic Food Services (Virginia), UniPro Foodservice , and ComSource . In 1998 he was Executive Vice President of Alliant Foodservice Inc. - a nationally operating catering company with then 6 billion US dollars in annual sales based in Deerfield (Illinois), which merged with US Foodservice in 2001 .

William Eacho most recently served as CEO of his finance and real estate firm Carlton Capital Group, LLC in Bethesda, Maryland . He has served on three boards of directors - Stanley Martin Companies Inc., Bialek Corporation Inc., and the Boys & Girls Club of Washington, DC Eacho was also on the advisory board of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University. He is also a member of the World President's Organization and the Chief Executives Organization .

He is married to Donna William Eacho and has three sons.

Political career

Eacho was one of the most important campaign sponsors of US President Barack Obama . He raised over $ 500,000 for the 2008 presidential campaign and approximately $ 100,000 for the inauguration ceremonies. Together with his wife, he has raised and donated about $ 228,900 to politics since 1989, 83% of which went to the Democrats . This also included $ 2,300 for Hillary Clinton and $ 9,200 for Obama during the party's candidacies.

In June 2009, Eacho was proposed by Obama as ambassador to Vienna . The United States Senate ratified and sworn in Eacho in August 2009.

Following a good tradition of former American ambassadors in Austria, he is an extraordinary member of the supervisory board of the Salzburg Seminar .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Ambassador William C. Eacho III to LH Dörfler (accessed March 10, 2013)
  2. ^ Hind Sabir: Senate Confirms Nomination for Ambassador to the Republic of Austria (Press release) Targeted News Service. August 16, 2009. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
  3. ↑ US Senate confirms 20 diplomatic posts (press release) Gulf Times . August 8, 2009. Archived from the original on August 9, 2009. Retrieved on August 18, 2009.
  4. ↑ Christoph Prantner: Alexa Wesner becomes the new US ambassador in Vienna. derstandard.at, June 28, 2013, accessed on November 6, 2013 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Biography: William C. Eacho, III . Embassy of the United States in Vienna . 2009. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved on August 18, 2009.
  6. ↑ Michael Beckel: Another Batch of Obama's Ambassador Picks Have Money-in-Politics Ties . OpenSecrets.org Center for Responsive Politics. July 1, 2009. Retrieved March 10, 2013.
  7. ^ Biography - William C. Eacho, III . US State Department . Archived from the original on October 17, 2009. Retrieved October 23, 2013.

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predecessor Office successor
David F. Girard-diCarlo US Ambassador to Austria
September 2009 to September 2013 		Alexa Wesner
personal data
SURNAME Eacho, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eacho, William Carlton III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American manager and ambassador to Austria
DATE OF BIRTH 1954