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Donald B. Marron

CSIS Trustee
Donald B. Marron is chairman, CEO, and founder of Lightyear Capital, a private equity investment firm. He served as chairman and chief executive officer of PaineWebber Group Inc. until its merger in November 2000 with UBS AG. Following the merger, Mr. Marron served as chairman, UBS America, until September 2003, when he left to devote full attention to Lightyear. Mr. Marron previously was president of Mitchell Hutchins. In 1969 he cofounded Data Resources Inc. with Harvard economist Dr. Otto Eckstein and served as chairman of the board until McGraw-Hill Companies purchased the firm in 1979. He is a former director of the New York Stock Exchange, governor and vice chairman of the Securities Industry Association, and governor of the National Association of Securities Dealers. Mr. Marron is chairman of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1997, Mr. Marron cochaired CSIS's National Commission on Retirement Policy, which produced a report that served as a framework for the Social Security and pension reform legislation introduced in both the Senate and the House in 1998 and 1999. He is a member of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Board of Overseers and Managers and a director of the Charles A. Dana Foundation. A former member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Mr. Marron is current vice chairman and former president of the board of the Museum of Modern Art.

 

 

 

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