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Revision as of 22:54, 30 August 2006 by Newmstar (talk | contribs) (→Biography)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Template:Wikify-date Christopher Gabrieli is a Hungarian-American Massachusetts businessman and American politician. He was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 2002. He declined Attorney General Tom Reilly's offer to be his running mate and is now running for Governor of Massachusetts. He announced his candidacy for governor of Massachusetts in April 2006 (see Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2006 for more details on this topic). The son of Hungarian immigrants, Gabrieli grew up in Buffalo, New York. He is a graduate of Harvard College and is married with five children (ages five to twelve).
Biography
The son of Hungarian immigrants, Chris Gabrieli was born in Buffalo, New York in 1960. After graduating from Harvard College, he was forced to drop out of Columbia University’s medical school to save his family’s business—GMIS, a software company that increased efficiency in healthcare systems—from going bankrupt. In just three years, Gabrieli led GMIS to break even.
Following his success at GMIS, Gabrieli spent 15 years at Bessemer Venture Partners, investing in and helping innovative young businesses succeed. During his time there, he invested over $1 billion in the economy, and created tens of thousands of new jobs.
As a leading advocate for after-school programming for children, Gabrieli served as Chairman of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s Task Force on After-School Time and was a founding partner and Chairman of Boston’s After-School for All Partnership, the largest public-private partnership ($25 million) dedicated to children in Boston’s history.
In the arena of economic opportunity, Massachusetts 2020 led a pro bono project to help the $30 billion Massachusetts state pension fund (PRIM) evaluate investing some assets along a “double bottom line” strategy to yield both market-rate returns and economic benefits to Massachusetts such as creating new jobs and expanding home ownership. As a result of the study, PRIM adopted a formal policy to commit up to $600 million in this direction.
Gabrieli has also been active in public policy, civic life and politics. From 1996 to 2002 he served as Chairman of MassINC, the state’s leading non-partisan, independent policy think tank. He serves on a number of non-profit boards including The Boston Foundation, The Boston Plan for Excellence, The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, the Boston Public Library Foundation, and both the Harvard and the Boston University Schools of Public Health. In 2002, Gabrieli won a three-way primary to become the Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor of Massachusetts.
He is currently a Managing Director of the Ironwood Equity Fund, a Small Business Investment Corporation (SBIC) that provides growth capital to expansion and later stage businesses in the Northeast. Ironwood seeks out investment opportunities in undercapitalized markets that have been overlooked by traditional venture investors and focuses on the healthcare, value-added manufacturing, business services, consumer products and retail industries.
Gabrieli lives in Boston with his wife Hilary and their five children, John Abigail, Polly Lilla and Nicholas.
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- Taxes: Supports cuts based upon a "responsible" timetable
- Cape Wind project: Supports;
- Same-Sex Marriage: Supports;
- Stem Cell research: Supports;
- Death Penalty: Opposes;
- Abortion rights: Supports;
- MCAS: Supports;
- T fare increase (Proposed): Opposes