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Bradford M. "Brad" Freeman is an American businessman and conservative political fundraiser.


Career

Freeman was born and raised in
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, and attended
Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
on a football scholarship. He received an MBA from
Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...
in 1966. Upon graduation, Freeman served six years in the
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and began a career as an investment banker for the firm
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. In 1983, Freeman co-founded an investment banking firm called Riordan, Freeman & Spogli with later
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and Ronald P. Spogli. The firm was renamed Freeman Spogli & Co. after Riordan's exit. By 2001, the fund controlled over $900 million in assets. Freeman has also served as a director of
Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment management and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in more than 41 countries and more than 75,000 employees, the fir ...
DW, RDO Equipment, Koll Management Services,
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,
Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International, is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 15 million people with electricity across a service territory of app ...
, and
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.


Other activities

Freeman was introduced to
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in 1979, and the two quickly became good friends. Freeman served on the "Team of 100,"
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's group of top fundraisers, and helped raise funds for George W. Bush's campaigns for Governor of Texas. Freeman served as a "Pioneer" in Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, and helped raise millions of dollars for Bush and the
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. Freeman also served as chairman of the 2000 Presidential Inaugural Committee. Though Freeman himself did not earn a major presidential appointment, Freeman's business partner, Ron Spogli, was appointed Ambassador to Italy in 2005. In the 2016 film "Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk," Freeman said that after raising and contributing millions of dollars to George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, he was expecting a government appointment such as "a chance to run the CIA," but Bush instead offered him his cat. According to friends, Bush did arrange for Freeman a membership of
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. Freeman has served on the board of trustees of Stanford University.


See also

* Ronald P. Spogli


References

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