Siewert, J

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Richard L. "Jake" Siewert, Jr. (born February 1, 1964) is head of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_communication" title="Corporate communication" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">corporate communications</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs" title="Goldman Sachs" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Goldman Sachs</a>. He served as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Press_Secretary" title="White House Press Secretary" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">White House Press Secretary</a> during the administration of U.S. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">President</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bill Clinton</a> and in Treasury department during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_Administration" title="Obama Administration" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Obama Administration</a>.

Born in New York City, Siewert is a 1986 graduate of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Yale University</a>. He later attended <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_University" title="Emory University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Emory University</a>, studying comparative literature and philosophy, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">University of California, Berkeley</a>, studying law for three years, but did not earn an advanced degree.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_note-WP01-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a>

Siewert held positions in the Clinton Administration including press secretary from September 30, 2000, to January 20, 2001, and was at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoa" title="Alcoa" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alcoa</a> from 2001-2009, last as vice president for environment, health and safety and public strategy.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_note-WSJ01-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a>

In June 2009, Siewert joined the Obama administration in a position advising Treasury Secretary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner" title="Timothy Geithner" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Timothy Geithner</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_note-WP01-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a>

In March 2012, Siewert was appointed as global head of corporate communications for Goldman Sachs, succeeding Lucas van Praag.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_note-WSJ01-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a> An early task from the board to Siewert was to be the "rebranding" of chief executive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Blankfein" title="Lloyd Blankfein" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lloyd Blankfein</a>, whose three-year tenure has been marked by challenges to the firm and to Blankfein himself.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a>

<h2 style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Personal<span class="mw-editsection" style=" -webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jake_Siewert&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a>]</h2>

<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jake is married to Christine Anderson,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_note-WP01-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a> who served as communications director for former New York <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_New_York" title="Governor of New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Governor</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer" title="Eliot Spitzer" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Eliot Spitzer</a>. Ms. Anderson is also a former Press Secretary to Governor Spitzer and worked in the Clinton White House.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">citation needed</a>]

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<li id="cite_note-WP01-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_ref-WP01_1-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_ref-WP01_1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">b</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_ref-WP01_1-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">c</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_ref-WP01_1-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">d</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jake-siewert/gIQAiNkDAP_topic.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"WhoRunsGov: Jake Siewert"</a>. Washington Post.</li>

<li id="cite_note-WSJ01-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_ref-WSJ01_2-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_ref-WSJ01_2-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">b</a> Moyer, Liz, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120313-713052.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Goldman Officially Has A New Head Of Corporate Communications"</a>, Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-14.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_ref-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a>} Calmes, Jackie (May 6, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/former-clinton-aide-will-become-treasury-counselor/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Former Clinton Aide Will Become Treasury Counselor"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The New York Times</a>. Retrieved June 3, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Siewert#cite_ref-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a>} <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Gasparino" title="Charlie Gasparino" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Gasparino, Charlie</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/2012/04/25/exclusive-goldman-board-hopes-pr-boost-will-save-blankfein/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Goldman Board Hopes Image Overhaul Will Save Blankfein"</a>, FOXBusiness, April 25, 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-12.</li>

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