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Small Business News December 2003
An advisor to the Bush White House on both the dividend tax cut and rebuilding Iraq, Dr. John Rutledge is the Chairman of Rutledge Capital, a private equity investment firm that has invested more than $150 million in middle market manufacturing, distribution, and service companies. He also is chairman of Rutledge Research, an economic and investment advisory firm, founder of The Rutledge Institute, a forum for capital and growth policy, chairman of the Advisory Boards of B.V. Group, a venture capital, hedge fund, and real estate investment firm, and Saugatuck Capital, a private equity firm.
Among his many advisory and speaking clients are Verizon, General Electric, Boeing, Forbes, Fortune, AIG, Fidelity, Franklin/Templeton Funds, UBS, ING Realty, Houlihan Lokey, Huntington Bank, National Association of Federal Credit Unions, Young Presidents Organization, Association for Corporate Growth, National Association of Manufacturers, Gilder Publishing, Times/Mirror, Turner Construction, Kuwait Fund, Permal, Bobbin Forum, Aluminum Extruders Institute, Steel Service Center Institute, American Petroleum Institute, Institutional Investor, Wachovia Bank, Toyota, Edison Institute, New York Society of Security Analysts, Bankhaus Metzler, Fremont Investment Advisors, Lazard Freres, Rittenhouse Trust, and many others. Dr. Rutledge writes a regular column in the American Spectator on the intersection of ideas from science and economics, he has written the Business Strategy column in Forbes for more than a decade and writes columns for Forbes.com and TheStreet.com. He has written two books and hundreds of articles for The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator, Barron's, Forbes, Fortune, The National Review, The Financial Times, US News and World Report, Business Week, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Boersen Zeiting, and other publications. He has testified before many Congressional Committees and has advised government officials in the US, UK, Ireland, and Kuwait. Dr. Rutledge founded the Claremont Economics Institute, an economic advisory business in Claremont, California. As CEI's Chairman for twenty years, he worked in dozens of countries advising CEOs on business, financial, and restructuring strategies. In 1980-81, Dr. Rutledge served as a member of the Reagan transition team as one of the principal architects of the Reagan Economic Plan. During the past twenty years, Dr. Rutledge has founded a family of mutual funds, served on the boards of more than three-dozen private and public companies, and participated in over thirty leveraged buyout transactions. He began his career on the faculty of Tulane University and Claremont McKenna College, where he taught monetary economics, international finance, and econometrics. Rutledge holds a BA from Lake Forest College, and a PhD from the University of Virginia. He has a passion for mathematics, physics, complex adaptive systems, cognitive science, history, music, and foreign languages. He divides his time between Greenwich, Connecticut and Maui. RETURN TO DECEMBER 2003 SB NEWS PAGE
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Dr. Rutledge lectures on global economics, financial markets, investment strategies, technology and the economy, and how to own and grow a business. People like the fact that he practices what he preaches; after tours of duty in both academics and government policy, he has started, run, chaired, owned, and harvested dozens of real companies, and managed real money in both mutual funds and private equity. His talks give people the tools to do their own business and investment thinking.