Breakfast with Deputy Mayor Robert K. Steel
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 8:00am
LIC Partnership Breakfast with
Deputy Mayor Robert K. Steel
Deputy Mayor Steel will provide an update on Mayor Bloomberg’s economic transformation agenda, the centerpiece of which is the planned Cornell/Technion applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island. The Applied Sciences campus is projected to have a major economic impact across the City, but particularly in Western Queens and Long Island City, bringing thousands of potential new jobs to the area.
$20 for LIC Partnership members, $30 for non-members
Call 718-786-5300 x21 to register
Queensboro Room
1 MetLife Plaza
27-01 Queens Plaza North
LIC, NY 11101
Sponsors: Con Edison, Silvercup Studios, Mount Sinai Queens
Media Sponsors: NY Daily News, Queens Courier, Queens Business
Robert K. Steel
Deputy Mayor for Economic Development
Robert K. Steel is Deputy Mayor for Economic Development. He is responsible for the Bloomberg Administration's five-borough economic development strategy and job-creation efforts, as well as its efforts to expand job training, strengthen small business assistance, promote new industries, diversify the economy, and achieve the goals of the New Housing Marketplace Plan, which is designed to build or preserve enough affordable housing for 500,000 New Yorkers by 2014. He spearheads the Administration's major redevelopment projects, including those in Lower Manhattan, Flushing, Hunters Point South, Coney Island, Stapleton, the South Bronx, and Hudson Yards. Deputy Mayor Steel oversees such agencies as the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Department of City Planning, Department of Small Business Services, NYC Economic Development Corporation and NYC & Company, and he serves as Chair of Brooklyn Bridge Park board.
Prior to his 2010 appointment as Deputy Mayor, Steel was the President and CEO of Wachovia. From 2006 to 2008, Steel was the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to entering government service, Steel spent nearly 30 years at Goldman Sachs, ultimately rising to become co-head of the U.S. Equities Division and Vice Chairman of the firm. He is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, and has distinguished himself as Chairman of Duke's Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Aspen Institute's Board of Trustees, Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a member of the FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion, Chairman of The After-School Corporation, and Co-Founder of SeaChange Capital Partners, an organization dedicated to helping nonprofits grow.
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Con Edison: We help power your business
Con Edison Economic Development is here to help your business succeed. We’ll help you compete by providing expert guidance to government-incentive programs in your area and the most cost-effective and efficient electric-service options Con Edison has to offer. Energy efficiency is the smart way to save money and help the environment. By using less energy you lower your monthly bill, produce fewer air pollutants, preserve natural resources, and promote the use of domestic energy sources. Contact one of our Economic Development managers and discover how we can help your business thrive.
Mount Sinai Queens, a 235-bed hospital, isthe Queens campus of The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. Mount Sinai Queensoffers a team of nearly 500 physicians representing 37 medical and surgical specialties. Between our physicians and staff, we speak more than 35 languages—just one of the many ways in which we serve the needs of our culturally diverse community. www.mshq.org
Deputy Mayor Robert K. Steel
Deputy Mayor Steel will provide an update on Mayor Bloomberg’s economic transformation agenda, the centerpiece of which is the planned Cornell/Technion applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island. The Applied Sciences campus is projected to have a major economic impact across the City, but particularly in Western Queens and Long Island City, bringing thousands of potential new jobs to the area.
$20 for LIC Partnership members, $30 for non-members
Call 718-786-5300 x21 to register
Queensboro Room
1 MetLife Plaza
27-01 Queens Plaza North
LIC, NY 11101
Sponsors: Con Edison, Silvercup Studios, Mount Sinai Queens
Media Sponsors: NY Daily News, Queens Courier, Queens Business
Robert K. Steel
Deputy Mayor for Economic Development
Robert K. Steel is Deputy Mayor for Economic Development. He is responsible for the Bloomberg Administration's five-borough economic development strategy and job-creation efforts, as well as its efforts to expand job training, strengthen small business assistance, promote new industries, diversify the economy, and achieve the goals of the New Housing Marketplace Plan, which is designed to build or preserve enough affordable housing for 500,000 New Yorkers by 2014. He spearheads the Administration's major redevelopment projects, including those in Lower Manhattan, Flushing, Hunters Point South, Coney Island, Stapleton, the South Bronx, and Hudson Yards. Deputy Mayor Steel oversees such agencies as the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Department of City Planning, Department of Small Business Services, NYC Economic Development Corporation and NYC & Company, and he serves as Chair of Brooklyn Bridge Park board.
Prior to his 2010 appointment as Deputy Mayor, Steel was the President and CEO of Wachovia. From 2006 to 2008, Steel was the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to entering government service, Steel spent nearly 30 years at Goldman Sachs, ultimately rising to become co-head of the U.S. Equities Division and Vice Chairman of the firm. He is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, and has distinguished himself as Chairman of Duke's Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Aspen Institute's Board of Trustees, Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a member of the FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion, Chairman of The After-School Corporation, and Co-Founder of SeaChange Capital Partners, an organization dedicated to helping nonprofits grow.
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Con Edison: We help power your business
Con Edison Economic Development is here to help your business succeed. We’ll help you compete by providing expert guidance to government-incentive programs in your area and the most cost-effective and efficient electric-service options Con Edison has to offer. Energy efficiency is the smart way to save money and help the environment. By using less energy you lower your monthly bill, produce fewer air pollutants, preserve natural resources, and promote the use of domestic energy sources. Contact one of our Economic Development managers and discover how we can help your business thrive.
Mount Sinai Queens, a 235-bed hospital, isthe Queens campus of The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. Mount Sinai Queensoffers a team of nearly 500 physicians representing 37 medical and surgical specialties. Between our physicians and staff, we speak more than 35 languages—just one of the many ways in which we serve the needs of our culturally diverse community. www.mshq.org
