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Stephen Berger was born on 11 July, 1939 in New York City, US, is an entrepreneur. Discover Stephen Berger's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Occupation Financial executive Political advisor Professor
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 11 July, 1939
Birthday 11 July
Birthplace New York City, US
Nationality United States

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His wife is Cynthia Wainwright (m. 1977)

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Stephen Berger Net Worth

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2010

Berger was also a Member of the Governor Andrew Cuomo's Medicaid Redesign Team during 2010–2011. Berger chaired the Health System Redesign Group, which proposed a restructuring of Brooklyn's Hospitals and Primary Care Facilities.

2005

In early 2005, Governor George Pataki selected Berger to chair the New York State Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century. This commission (often described as the Berger Commission) resulted in the first major restructuring of New York's health-care delivery system. In its final report, issued in November 2006, it called for consolidations, closures, conversions and large-scale restructurings. In the end, nine institutions closed and 48 restructured, in many cases over the objections of health care executives, politicians and community residents.

2003

Berger continued his work in the New York health care system and chaired the Governor's Task Force on Health Care Reform from 2003 to 2005.

1993

Berger was also responsible for establishing and growing GE Capital's insurance annuity business, with the acquisitions of Great Northern Annuity Insurance Company (GNA) from Weyerhaeuser Company and United Pacific Life Insurance Company from the Reliance Group. He resigned from GE Capital in 1993.

In 1993, Berger returned to Odyssey Partners L.P. as a general partner after an eight-year absence. In 1997, Berger was one of the founders of Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC., a private New York investment firm that comprised the private equity operations of Odyssey Partners. He currently serves as Chairman of Odyssey Investment Partners.

1990

From 1990–1993, Berger joined Financial Guaranty Insurance Co., a municipal bond insurer wholly owned by GE Capital, as chairman and CEO, and was appointed Executive Vice-president of GE Capital in 1992. He was responsible for a portfolio of businesses, including the Corporate Finance Group, Private Equity Investment, Railcar Services, Transport International Pool, GE Capital Modular Space and The Financial Guaranty Insurance Company.

1985

Governor Mario Cuomo of New York and Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey appointed Berger as executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on October 1, 1985, and he served in that capacity until 1990. He was responsible for directing New York and New Jersey's airports, port facilities, interstate network of tunnels, bridges and commuter trains and real estate investment, including the World Trade Center.

1980

On February 26, 1980, President Jimmy Carter announced the nomination of Berger as chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Railway Association, a government corporation set up in 1974 to create Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) out of six railroads that were in bankruptcy proceedings and funnel federal funds to Conrail, as well as monitor the systems performance.

1979

In 1979, Carey appointed him a Member of the Board and Chairman of the finance committee of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs New York City subways, buses and commuter rail lines.

1977

After leaving the Emergency Control Board in late 1977, Berger became a professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration at New York University, teaching part-time there for over 6 years.

After 1977, he moved to Wall Street holding senior posts at Oppenheimer & Company from 1981–1983 and Odyssey Partners from 1983–1985.

Mr. Berger married Cynthia Wainwright on September 24, 1977. She is President of the Board of the Churchill School in New York City and serves as President of The Bridge, a mental health agency. They have two daughters, Robin and Diana.

1976

In 1976, during New York's financial crisis, Carey appointed Berger to become the executive director of the New York State Emergency Control Board for the City of New York, which reviewed the city's $12.5 billion budget and designed a plan that enabled the city to reenter the credit markets and eventual financial recovery.

1975

Berger joined the administration of Governor Hugh L. Carey (1975–1982) as a planning specialist and later served as New York State Commissioner of Social Services and Member of the Board of Social Welfare.

1973

From 1973 to 1974, also under the Rockefeller administration, Berger served as a consultant to the Rockefeller Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, a private study project on national and international policy created to study the various resources and stresses on resources that would determine the environmental and economic health of America over the next several decades.

1970

In the early 1970s, Berger served on two major commissions under Governor Nelson Rockefeller. From 1972 to 1973, he held the position of executive director of The New York State Study Commission on New York City (the Scott Commission) that proposed sweeping changes in social services, fiscal systems, health and hospital services and government structure and jurisdiction. The Scott Commission studies warned of a multibillion-dollar city deficit when few had foreseen the up-coming mid-1970s fiscal crisis.

1960

Berger entered the political arena to work for the Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy presidential campaign in 1960. In 1964 he ran underdog Jonathan B. Bingham's successful congressional campaign in the Bronx against Charles A. Buckley, a Bronx Democratic fixture and powerhouse. He served as executive assistant to Congressman Bingham from 1964 to 1968. He later managed the campaign of Bronx Borough President Herman Badillo, a former US Representative, in the 1969 New York mayoral primary and Richard Ottinger's bid for the U.S. Senate in 1970.

1955

Berger attended New York City public schools, and graduated with Honors in Science from Stuyvesant High School in 1955. He went to college at Brandeis University and graduated magna cum laude with honors in history in 1959.

1939

Stephen Berger (born July 11, 1939) is an American entrepreneur, investment banker, civil servant and political advisor. His public service positions at the federal, state, and local levels for government agencies include: Chairman of the New York State Commission on Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century, Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Chairman of the United States Railway Association under President Jimmy Carter, and executive director of the New York Emergency Control Board for the City of New York.