Alan Patricof Alan Patricof (born 1934) is an American investor and one of the early pioneers of the venture capital and private equity industries. Patricof founded Apax Partners (based on a play on Patricof's name: Alan Patricof Associates Cross (x) Border), which is today one of the largest private equity firms globally. Early life and education[edit] Patricof grew up in a Jewish family[2] on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City,[3] the son of immigrants from Russia. His father was a small time stockbroker.[1] He graduated from The Ohio State University in 1955 after only three years and earned an M.B.A. from Columbia University in 1957 while working full-time as an analyst for an investment firm.[3][4] While a student at Ohio State, he became a member of the Nu chapter of the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity.[5] Career[edit] By the mid-1990s Apax had become one of the larger private equity firms globally. Personal life[edit] Patricof has been married twice: Political and other affiliations[edit]
smitten kitchen » The Everywhereist Cooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded Catalog Living The Economy and the Economics of Everyday Life - Economix Blog Blog Chef Weigel Dana Stevens and I just recorded a Spoiler Special for The Unknown Known, Erroll Morris' long-awaited, critic-confounding documentary about Donald Rumsfeld. Off the clock, I went to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the latest blockbuster in the Marvel movie universe, and the one most likely to incite anger on Fox News followed by anger-at-the-anger on The Daily Show. It wasn't planned this way, but the two films went together like a white wine and fish pairing. The Unknown Known comes to the screen with heavier expectations, of course, and an aura of Importance. Eleven years ago, as Americans began to turn on the postwar occupation of Iraq, Morris released the definitive interview with former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Donald Rumsfeld was not paying attention. But that's it. The Captain America sequel, naturally, makes its black hats and white hats more distinct. Plenty of critics have called this one of the best, or the best, of the Marvel films.
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