Susan McCaw
Susan Leigh Rasinski McCaw (born 1962 in Orange County, California) is an American entrepreneur and diplomat.
Life
Origin
Susan Rasinski was born in 1962 in California. She completed her studies at the U.S. elite universities. She earned a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University, after she had completed her Bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford University with honors.
It is equipped with Craig McCaw, a multibillion dollar U.S. mobile pioneer, married and has three children. Her husband, whose previous marriage ended in divorce under medial involvement, sold in 1994 his mobile phone company McCaw Cellular to AT & T for $ 11.5 billion dollars, making him the 125th richest Americans.
With her family, she has an estate in Kirkland (Washington).
Career as an entrepreneur
Susan McCaw was President of COM Investments, as well as managing partner of Eagle Creek Capital, both private investment firms in the state of Washington. Previously, she was Managing Director of Robertson Stephens & Company, an investment bank in San Francisco. There she was responsible for the financing of emerging companies in the technology industry. McCaw was also Teilhaberin in the venture capital group of Robertson Stephens. They also created business analysis for McKinsey & Company.
Volunteering
Susan McCaw was a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University. There she was a board member of the one- billion-dollar program for the bachelor's program and in the integration of international students active. At her home in Seattle, Wash. It is co-founder and chairman of the board of trustees of "Team Read", a reading program for pupils at risk of 2nd and 3rd class have been. They have also served on the Investment Committee of the University of Washington and worked as a board of Grameen Technology.
Political commitment
McCaw was a board member for the financing of the Bush -Cheney 2004 election campaign in the state of Washington and a member of the national executive committee of W Stands for Women. She was the Women's Coalition of the Republican Party and the advisory board.
2006 Susan McCaw Ambassador of the United States in Austria. She had been nominated in October 2005 by President George W. Bush as the successor of ambassador Lyons Brown, Jr.. It was on 30 November 2005 by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court in Washington DC sworn in at a solemn ceremony in which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held the Presidency. With the presentation of their diplomatic credentials to the Austrian President Heinz Fischer on January 9, 2006, she took up her post as ambassador to officially.
Her appointment was taken behave in Austria, McCaw had previously boast no diplomatic experience. Their small German - knowledge could not necessarily improve their appearance. Last but not least you are doing the vast unpopularity of George W. Bush in Europe to create, but it was one of the appointed U.S. ambassadors to major donors in the presidential campaigns, 1999-2004 ( $ 226,650 ). On July 3, 2007, she stated in a press release, wanting to resign in late 2007 and to leave Austria from "personal reasons." At the same time she described her time in Austria as one of the " most remarkable and rewarding experiences of my life." November 26, 2007 McCaw left Austria.
In early November 2007, the U.S. President nominated the contractor and former Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, Charles Gargano, her successor in the Vienna Boltzmanngasse, with the consent of the U.S. Senate was missing. Gargano is one of those U.S. ambassadors, who had distinguished themselves as financially strong supporters in the election campaign of the then incumbent president. Due to the voting conditions in the U.S. Parliament Gargano was never elected.
On 27 June 2008 the Senate of the United States the appointment of David F. Girard- diCarlo lawyer from Pennsylvania, agreed to the new U.S. ambassador to Austria.