_ABOUT THE LECTURE: _Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s most
significant mega billion English pound contribution to the world and
the UK may have never been told in the movies and books. The Iron Lady
created the Privatization Process whereby she sold over 50
government-owned leading British companies, back to the private market
from the socialized government of England. She rescued the UK economy
and set the standard in the world for how socialized governments can
transition from an almost 100% state-owned economy to a profitable
private capitalistic government and economy. Mr. Barrett helped
execute that Investment Banking assignment. _ABOUT THE
SPEAKER: _Bob Barrett has been in the finance industry for 47 years.
Forbes Magazine has named Bob one of Florida’s “Leading
Businessmen” and “perhaps the most experienced INVESTMENT BANKER
IN THE STATE.” He is Co-Founder and Honorary Chairman of Cross Keys
Capital INVESTMENT BANK OF FT. Lauderdale, Florida and has been the
Financial Advisor of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc. Bob Barrett
worked for 10 years in the U.S. Senate in WASHINGTON, D.C. for Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy. Previously he worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Bob has been a Director of the Enterprise Development Corp. of South
Florida and from 1992 to 1996 Mr. Barrett was Senior Financial
Consultant for Merrill Lynch in Florida. Prior to that Mr. Barrett was
a Member of the Board of Directors of Prudential Securities Inc. in
New York City, London, Madrid, and Paris, Co-Head of the INVESTMENT
BANKING DEPARTMENT, Member of the Underwriting Commitment Committee,
Head of the International Utilities Group, Head of the Information
Technologies Group, Head of the Privatization Team, Head of the
Eastern European Team and Head of the New York/Connecticut Group.
Previously, he was an Associate in the Corporate Finance Department of
Morgan Stanley, and then Sr. Vice President at E.F. Hutton & Company.
He is a past member of the Bar of the States of New York and Maine,
and was previously a Member of the Board of Boston Capital Ventures, a
Boston venture capital fund associated with The Prudential Insurance
Company of America. Mr. Barrett has been Senior INVESTMENT BANKER IN
NUMEROUS INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS, including transactions for AT&T,
General Motors, General Electric, Compagnie General D’Electricite,
British Telecom, British Gas, British Airways, and British Water, and
has acted as Senior Financial Advisor for 17 governments, including
the Treasury of the UNITED STATES of America, the State of Israel, the
United Kingdom and France, among others. He has have been
Investment Banker to 19 different global governments. Mr. Barrett
also has been Chairman and Founder of the Columbia Law School
Association of Palm Beach, past President and present Director of the
Georgetown University Club of Palm Beach, and Founder and Past
Director of the Bar Harbor, Maine Historic Preservation Trust. In
addition, Mr. Barrett is a Trustee of the Barrett Scholarship Fund at
the University of Maine, past Director of the Senator George Mitchell
Educational Institute, and is past Director of Alnabak Enterprises
Inc., the investment company of the Penobscot Indian Nation, and past
member of the Business Review Board of the Technology Institute of the
State of Maine, and the Maine Center for Innovation in Biotechnology,
and has been a Trustee of Husson University, Bangor, Maine and is a
past Member of the Honor’s Program Development Committee of the
University of Maine. Bob Barrett graduated from Georgetown College,
Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude, and Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors) in
1966, Columbia Law School, Chief Justice Kent Court in 1969, and
Harvard Business School, Honors in Finance and Accounting in 1971. He
received certification at Merrill Lynch’s Program for Institutional
Money Managers/Financial Analysts in 1992.
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