Charles O. Rossotti (born January 17, 1941) is an American businessman, and former

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Early career

Rossotti was born in 1941 in

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and graduated from St. Cecilia High School in Englewood, New Jersey in 1958, before earning a

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degree in

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from

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(1962) and an

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from Harvard Business School (1964). Rossotti was the first ever MBA hire for the

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. But after only a year, Rossotti went to work for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. From 1965 to 1969, Rossotti worked for

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, becoming Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis at age 29. In 1970, Rossotti and several DOD colleagues co-founded American Management Systems, a technology and management consulting firm. Rossotti served as Chief Executive Officer from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Rossotti also sits on the Atlantic Council's Board of Directors.

IRS years

In 1997, Rossotti was named

by then President

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where he served for 5 years. He was considered a reformer, upgrading the agency's technology, as well as turning the IRS into a more customer service-oriented agency. Rossotti received a waiver from the Clinton administration that allowed him to retain his AMS stock in a blind trust. After leaving the IRS, Rossotti joined The

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, a global private equity firm in Washington, D.C., as a Senior Advisor.

Publications

Rossotti is the author of two books: * ''Modernizing America's Tax Agency'' (2000) * ''Many Unhappy Returns: One Man's Quest To Turn Around The Most Unpopular Organization In America (Leadership for the Common Good)'' (Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 2005) In addition, he provided a foreword to

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's ''Reinventing Service At The IRS: Report Of The Customer Service Task Force National Performance Review'' (1997). He has also authored government publications and contributed to other works, including a proposal published in '' Tax Notes Federal'' to reduce the tax gap in the United States.

References

https://purespiceplus.com/irs.html

External links

* https://purespiceplus.com/irs.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Rossotti, Charles O. 1941 births Businesspeople from New York City The Carlyle Group people Clinton administration personnel Commissioners of Internal Revenue Directors of Bank of America Georgetown University alumni Harvard Business School alumni Living people St. Cecilia High School (New Jersey) alumni United States Department of Defense officials