[socialactionfoundationforequity:14837 President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts

President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/27/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts

The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, For Immediate Release
January 27, 2012

WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to
nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts:

Michael P. Botticelli – Deputy Director, Office of National Drug
Control Policy
Christy Romero – Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset
Relief Program
The President also announced his intent to appoint the following
individual to a key Administration post:

Alex Mehran – Member, Board of Directors of the Presidio Trust
President Obama said, "These dedicated and accomplished individuals
will be valued additions to my administrations as we tackle the
important challenges facing America. I look forward to working with
them in the months and years ahead."

President Obama announced his intent to nominate the following
individuals to key Administration posts:

Michael P. Botticelli, Nominee for Deputy Director, Office of National
Drug Control Policy
Michael P. Botticelli is currently the Director of the Bureau of
Substance Abuse Services in the Massachusetts Department of Health
(MDPH). Since joining MDPH in 1994, Mr. Botticelli has served as
Chief of Staff of the MDPH Commissioner's Office (2000-2003),
Assistant Director for Policy and Planning within the HIV/AIDS Bureau
(1996-2000), Contract Manager in the HIV/AIDS Bureau (1995-1996), and
Alcoholism Program Coordinator within the Bureau of Substance Abuse
Services (1994-1995). He received a B.A. from Siena College and an
M.Ed. from St. Lawrence University.

Christy Romero, Nominee for Special Inspector General for the Troubled
Asset Relief Program
Christy Romero is the Deputy Special Inspector General for the
Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), a position she has held since
February 2011. Between 2009 and 2011, Ms. Romero served as the Chief
of Staff of SIGTARP. From July 2010 through September 2010, she
served as the Acting Deputy SIGTARP and from March 2011 through Oct
2011 she served as Acting SIGTARP. Ms. Romero came to SIGTARP from
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) where, from December
2007 through August 2009, she served as counsel to SEC Chairman Mary
Schapiro and Chairman Christopher Cox. From 2003 through 2007, as an
attorney in the Division of Enforcement, she investigated financial
fraud, insider trading, and other violations of the securities laws.
Prior to joining the SEC, Ms. Romero was a litigator specializing in
financial restructuring at the law firms of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &
Feld; Snell & Wilmer; and Jenner & Block. She also clerked for the
Honorable Robert C. Jones, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the
District of Nevada and Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. Ms.
Romero earned a B.S. in Business from Old Dominion University and a
J.D. from Brigham Young University Law School.

President Obama also announced his intent to appoint the following
individual to a key Administration post:

Alex Mehran, Appointee for Member, Board of Directors of the Presidio
Trust
Alex Mehran is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sunset
Development Company, a real estate development, investment,
construction and management company based in San Ramon, CA. Mr.
Mehran also serves as Chairman of the Contra Costa Economic
Partnership, a Trustee of the San Francisco Ballet, and as a Member of
the University of California, San Francisco Chancellor's Associates.
In addition, he is a past Chairman and current Executive Committee
Member of the Bay Area Council. Mr. Mehran earned a B.A. from Harvard
College with honors and received an LL.B. from Cambridge University,
England, also with honors.

--
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. - Mohandas Gandhi

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