Monday, November 25, 2024
Advertisement
  1. You Are At:
  2. News
  3. World
  4. Indian-American Neel Kashkari to run for California Governor

Indian-American Neel Kashkari to run for California Governor

Washington:  Former Indian-American US Treasury official Neel Kashkari, architect of the bank bailout during the 2008 financial crisis, plans to run for Governor of California with a pledge to create jobs and improve public schools."Today,

IANS Updated on: January 22, 2014 11:35 IST
"The programme he implemented not only has recouped all the money spent, but also has made a $13 billion profit for taxpayers to date," it said.

"If we could get Republicans and Democrats to work together in Washington, D.C., then I know we can get them to work together in Sacramento," Kashkari said citing his role in the bank bailout .

"If we could break the back of the worst economic crisis our country has faced in 80 years, then I know we can break the back of the crisis that is destroying opportunity for California families and kids," he said.

Kashkari also named new members of his campaign team, which includes political consultants who advised Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Kashkari grew up in a middle-class household outside of Akron, Ohio. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering at the University of Illinois, he moved to California in 1998 to work as a design engineer at TRW in Redondo Beach.

He later earned his master's of business administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and returned to California to help Silicon Valley entrepreneurs raise capital to grow their companies and create jobs.

Kashkari, a multimillionaire who lives in Laguna Beach in Orange County, previously worked for Goldman Sachs.

Last year, Kashkari quit his job as an investment banking executive and began travelling across the state and mulling his run for governor, meeting with potential donors, community organizations and regular Californians, according to Mercury News.
Advertisement

Read all the Breaking News Live on indiatvnews.com and Get Latest English News & Updates from World

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement