Team > Investment Team > Steven Rattner Steven Rattner is a Managing Principal of Quadrangle Group LLC focused on the firm’s media and communications private equity business. Prior to the formation of Quadrangle Group in 2000, Mr. Rattner was Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC. Mr. Rattner founded Lazard's Media and Communications Group and has been involved in many of the largest and most important transactions in these industries. Mr. Rattner, who joined Lazard in 1989 as a General Partner, was previously a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he also founded the Communications Group. Mr. Rattner has served many philanthropic organizations. He is a former Chairman of thirteen.org (Channels 13 and 21, New York’s public television stations), a Fellow of Brown University, a Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution. In addition, he writes regularly for a variety of publications on economic and public policy matters. Mr. Rattner holds a B.A. with honors in economics from Brown University and was awarded the Harvey Baker Fellowship.
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