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Greg A. Rosenbaum (born August 7, 1952) is an American
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based in Bethesda,
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. He is currently the co-principal owner and co-chair of the
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minor league baseball club, and a minority owner of the
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collegiate summer baseball club.


Personal life

Rosenbaum was born to a Jewish family in Toledo,
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and attended
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, the middle child of three brothers. His father, Marvin Rosenbaum, was a furniture salesman and later the owner of a premiums and incentives distributor, and his mother, Edith Millman Rosenbaum, was a vice president at a local advertising agency. Rosenbaum graduated from
Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...
in 1974 with an A.B. in Government. He received a joint Juris Doctor and
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from Harvard Law School and
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in 1978. At Harvard Law he was a member of the winning team in the 1976
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. Rosenbaum is married to Marti Radlo Rosenbaum, and has three grown children and two grandchildren.


Policy debate

At Harvard, Rosenbaum was a member of the winning team at the 1974 collegiate
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. In 1979, he was one of the coaches for Harvard's National Debate Tournament-winning team. Rosenbaum and his debate partner Charles Garvin were voted the second-best policy debate team of the 1970s in a poll of contemporary debate coaches and participants. Rosenbaum serves on the board of directors of Harvard Debate, Inc, and is a former trustee and chair of the National Debate Tournament. In 2011, Rosenbaum was named to the board of directors of the
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.


Business

Rosenbaum is currently the president of Palisades Associates, Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based private equity firm. He was previously a consultant with the
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and a vice president of buyout firm Dyson-Kissner-Moran. In 1987, Rosenbaum was one of the five founders of the
Carlyle Group The Carlyle Group is a multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $376 billion of assets under management. It specializes in private equity, real assets, and ...
. He left within the first year. From 2003 to 2010, he was the Chairman of
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, LLC, a distributor to the broadband industry, until its purchase by
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. From 2003 to 2012 Rosenbaum was the Chairman of
Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. is the largest producer of kashrut, kosher poultry in the United States.
, the largest producer of kosher poultry in the United States, and from 2006 to 2012 he was the company's chief executive officer. In 2014, Rosenbaum was one of the lead investors in a group that purchased the Dayton Dragons, the
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minor league affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, from
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. In 2016, Rosenbaum purchased a minority interest in the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, now in the
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.


Politics

Rosenbaum is currently on the board of the
Center for American Progress Action Fund The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a public policy research and advocacy organization which presents a liberal viewpoint on economic and social issues. It has its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The president and chief executive office ...
(CAP Action). Rosenbaum served as the vice chair of the Platform Committee for the
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. In 2013,
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appointed Rosenbaum to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the governing body of the
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, on which he served until January 2017. From 2011 to 2016, Rosenbaum served on the board of directors of the
National Jewish Democratic Council The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) was a political lobbying organization that advocated within the Democratic Party for viewpoints aligned with the American Jewish community and in support of the state of Israel, and within the polit ...
(NJDC), and from 2014 to 2016, he served as the NJDC's chair. In the 2012 election cycle, Rosenbaum was a co-chair of NJDC's political action committee. Rosenbaum was a charter member of the
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and was listed as a donor in reports released by the Clinton Foundation. At the Harvard Kennedy School, Rosenbaum is a vice chair of the HKS Fund Executive Council and was previously a member of the Dean's Council.


Philanthropy

In 2011, the
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granted Rosenbaum its Humanitarian Award. As the CEO of Empire Kosher, Rosenbaum oversaw the donation of kosher food products to community food pantries. In 2009, the Philadelphia Jewish Labor Committee granted Rosenbaum, along with U.S. Senator Bob Casey, a Labor Human Rights Award. In 2007, the
Jewish Labor Committee The Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) is an American secular Jewish organization dedicated to promoting labor union interests in Jewish communities, and Jewish interests within unions. The organization is headquartered in New York City, with local/re ...
granted Rosenbaum a National Trade Union Council for Human Rights Award. Rosenbaum is a past board member of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation, which supports the United States
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and
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teams, as well as the
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Foundation."Foundation News"
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References

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