Stephen Friedman

Chairman, Stone Point Capital

Stephen Friedman is chairman of Stone Point Capital, a private equity firm which he joined in 1998. From December 2002 to December 2004, he served as assistant to President George W. Bush for economic policy and as director of the National Economic Council. Mr. Friedman is currently a trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Previously, he was chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, the Intelligence Oversight Board, and Goldman Sachs & Company. He has also served as chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was chairman of the board of trustees of Columbia University, and a director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. He is based in New York, NY.

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