BYRON GEORGIOU FOR SENATE
Byron Georgiou has had a long career in the private and public sector in business, law andgovernment service.
One of 10 members appointed nationwide in 2009 to the Financial Crisis InquiryCommission, Byron and his fellow commissioners spent more than 18 months examiningthe causes of the financial crisis. The Commission and its staff of 50 held 19 days ofnationally televised public hearings, interviewed more than 700 witnesses and reviewedmillions of pages of documents, culminating in the Financial Crisis Inquiry Reportsubmitted to the President and Congress in January 201l.
Byron currently oversees Georgiou Enterprises, www.georgiouenterprises.com. with wideranging interests throughout Nevada. These include Xtreme Green, where he serves aslead investor and member of the Board of Directors, which manufactures a broad range of
lithium ion iron phosphate all-electric-powered vehicles in North Las Vegas, Clark County, www.xgpinc.com; lead investorin the construction and sale of single-family homes in Dayton, Lyon County, www.riverparkdayton.com; operation ofD'Andrea Golf Club, a public golf course and reception venue in Sparks, Washoe County, www.dandreagolf.com; leadinvestor in the development of a master-planned single-family, multi-family and commercial community in Carlin, ElkoCounty, www.redhawklife.com. Other ventures outside of Nevada include Health Fusion, where he serves as leadinvestor and member of the Board of Directors, providing information technology and electronic health records forphysicians and other healthcare professionals, www.healthfusion.com; Aerospace Holdings, where he serves on the Boardof Directors, manufacturer of custom parts for the aerospace and defense industries, www.stadco.com; partnerships inseveral private equity firms providing expansion capital to job-creating businesses; Corinthian Capital Group, which he co-founded and currently serves on the Board of Advisors, www.corinthiancap.com; growing media ventures, InterMediaPartners, www.intermediaadvisors.com; and Energy Capital Partners, development of domestic energy resources,www.ecpartners.com; Energy Systems International, a portfolio of carbon emission reduction projects in China andCentral America that generate carbon credits under the Kyoto protocol, www.energysystemsintl.com; Greenfields Coal,environmental cleanup and resource recovery at deep coal mining sites, www.greenfieldscoal.com; Allied Fiber,developing nationwide fiber optic networks for broadband transmission, www.alliedfiber.com; development andmanagement of golf courses, www.synergygolfpartners.com; www.saltcreekgolf.com; the pro-bono management of theHeroes Course, a veteran's golf course in Los Angeles, http://www.latimes.com/news/locallia-me-adv-vets-golf-20110207,0,6379940.story: and the provision of customer services at regional shopping centers throughout America in acompany Byron co-founded in 1985 with Jack Ford, son of President Gerald Ford, www.infoplaceusa.com.
Byron has served since 2005 on the advisory board of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance whichhosts the world's leading blog on corporate governance and financial regulation,http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin center/corporate governance. Since 2000, he has been Of Counsel to thenational law firm of Robbins, Geller, Rudman & Dowd, www.rgrdlaw.com. the world's largest plaintiffs' securities practice,and has spent much of the last decade investigating and civilly prosecuting financial fraud, with leadership roles in thehistoric litigations on behalf of victimized investors at Enron, WorldCom, Dynegy, AOL/Time Warner and UnitedHealth.
Byron was recently named one of Nevada's 10 most influential Democrats in the February 2011 issue of Campaign andElections. http://www.campaignsandelections.com/media/pdf/e67a1742ac4047dObdS6f1cf149dbSaa.pdf
In 2010, he was elected to serve on the Executive Board of the Nevada State Democratic Party, is a founding member ofthe Clark County Democratic Black Caucus and the Clark County Hispanic Democratic Caucus, and a member of theAsian-American Democratic Caucus.
In September 2009, Byron was one of a ten member delegation to China co-sponsored by the Washington think tank, theCenter for American Progress, and the Hong Kong-based US-China Exchange Foundation, holding a week of high-levelmeetings in Beijing and Tianjin with top Chinese political, military and academic leaders. The delegation included, amongothers, John Podesta, former Chief of Staff to President Clinton and Chair of President Obama's transition team; TomDaschle, former Senate Majority Leader; Andy Stern, former President of the Service Employees International Union; andPenny Pritzker, finance chair of President Obama's 2008 campaign. In December 2010, Byron joined in hosting areturning Chinese delegation for wide-ranging diplomatic meetings in Washington.http://www.americanprogress.orglissues/2009(111chinatripreport.html ..
