Richard Beeman Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Active member in National Program, served on membership committee and study groups to NATO and US military training operations.

Endowment Funds Committee Chairman

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Advise a privately-held investment management firm with objectives to grow and to institutionalize its success.

Organized, licensed and capitalized a de novo national bank specializing in trust/investment services. Negotiated sale to LPL Financial Services in 2003. Served as an independent director until 2015.

Chaired monthly meetings of business and professional leaders engaged in international affairs. Organized Kofi Annan visit to Cleveland.

Managed and grew a highly profitable business to $56 bn in assets and +1000 FTEs, operating in 5 midwest states. Sponsored mutual fund start up,managed landmark suit defining trustee duties at Ohio Supreme Court, melded 7 bank trust depts. into a single business. Secretary to large private foundation. Advisor to Cleveland Museum of Art and Cleveland Orchestra for planned giving. Investment manager, Cleveland Yale Alumni Endowment, 10 year Chair, Cleveland Committee on Foreign Relations. 8 year President, Town Hall of Cleveland.

Managed country exposure limits, credit limits to foreign banks, direct lending, foreign exchange trading, trade finance operations, and London office. Opened China banking relations, Syndicated a $25m credit for UINPAR, Brazilian Partner in Alcoa Aluminio. Developed bankers acceptance funding as a domestic business development tool. Travelled globally. Served on Senior Loan Committee, speaker at BAFT annual meeting.

Helped create and subsequently managed an in-house consultancy group to aid corporate customers through the minefield of newly fluctuating currency values. Travelled Scotland, Sweden, and Brussels with Barclays senior management, and regularly participated in lunches hosting international clients visiting London. Served as Chair, European Republican Committee through '76 election, establishing Republicans Abroad with RNC Chairman Bill Brock in 1978. Testified before US Senate re. Overseas Voting Rights Act of 1976. Made presentations on US political system in Istanbul, Vienna, London, Belgrade, Cyprus, and Ankara for US Information Agency.

Shadowed Frank Lindsay in all management meetings, liaised with board members, devised strategy for marketing defense satellite camera technology to NASA, helped establish London office and acquisition strategy.

Research, analysis and speech writing for Republican Congressmen overseeing the space program and National Science Foundation. Traveled for Paris Air Show and briefings at launches of Apollo 7-9 . Attended President's debriefing for Apollo 8 astronauts. Assisted with successful NASA budget amendments on the House Floor.

Ba History, International Affairs And Economics

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