Blair Effron

Blair Wayne Effron (an haife shi a ranar 19 ga Yuni, 1962) ɗan ƙasar Amurka ne mai kuɗi. Effron ya kafa Centerview Partners tare, wani babban kamfanin saka hannun jari na duniya da ke birnin New York .   Centerview yana da ofisoshi a London, Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles, Palo Alto da San Francisco. Kamfanin yana ba da shawara kan haɗe-haɗe da saye-saye, sake fasalin kuɗi, kimantawa, da tsarin jari ga kamfanoni, cibiyoyi da gwamnatoci.

Effron yana kuma da hannu a harkokin siyasar jam'iyyar Democrat kuma ya kasance fitaccen mai goyon bayan yakin neman zaben shugaban kasa na John Kerry a shekarar 2004, da kuma yakin neman zaben shugaban kasa na Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden da Kamala Harris . name="biden">

 Rayuwar farko 
Effron ya girma a cikin dangin Yahudawa a Poughkeepsie, New York, ɗan James W. Effron, shugaban Effron Oil. Effron ya kammala karatun digiri na farko a tarihi  daga Jami'ar Princeton a 1984  da kuma digiri na MBA daga Makarantar Kasuwanci ta Columbia a 1986. Ya fara aikinsa a Dillon, Read &amp; Co. kuma zai ci gaba da kasancewa tare da kamfanin da magajinsa ( Warburg Dillon Read, UBS Warburg da UBS Investment Bank) a cikin shekaru 20 masu zuwa. An ambaci Effron a matsayin abokin aiki a Dillon Read a cikin Barbarians at the Gate wanda ya shiga cikin siyan RJR Nabisco ta Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &amp; Co. 

 Sana'a 
Effron ya fara aikinsa a fannin banki na saka hannun jari a farkon shekarun 1980 kuma ya sami suna a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin manyan bankuna a masana'antar kayayyakin masarufi kuma sama da shekaru goma tun lokacin da ya kafa Centerview ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin manyan bankunan da ke cikin masana'antar a fannoni daban-daban. A UBS, Effron ya kasance Mataimakin Shugaban Rukunin UBS AG kuma memba na Hukumar Bankin Zuba Jari ta UBS, inda ya kuma zauna a kwamitocin gudanarwa da dama. Babban juyin mulkin Effron ya zo ne a shekarar 2005 lokacin da ya shawarci Gillette kan sayar da dala biliyan 57 ga Procter & Gamble, wanda shine mafi girman ciniki tsakanin haɗe-haɗe da saye na 2005. Daga cikin sauran manyan yarjejeniyoyi na Effron akwai:

 Kamfanin General Electric ya sayar da kadarorin kuɗi na dala biliyan 200.
 Kamfanin Time Warner Cable ya yi alkawarin hada kai da Charter Communications da darajar dala biliyan 79.
 Kamfanin Fox na ƙarni na 21 kan mu'amalar dala biliyan 71.3 da Kamfanin Walt Disney .
 Kamfanin Kraft Foods Group, Inc., ya amince da haɗin gwiwa da Heinz da kamfaninsa na Heinz, wanda ya kai dala biliyan 58.
 Kamfanin InBev ya sayi Anheuser-Busch na dala biliyan 52
 Kamfanin GE ya yi hasashen haɗin gwiwar kasuwancin mai da iskar gas na dala biliyan 32 da Baker Hughes.
 Kamfanin HJ Heinz ya sayar da dala biliyan 28 ga wata ƙungiyar masu zuba jari da ta ƙunshi 3G Capital da Berkshire Hathaway
 Dala biliyan 27.4 na sayarwa Lorillard ga Reynolds American
 Kamfanin Unilever ya sayi Bestfoods da darajarsu ta kai dala biliyan 24
 Kamfanin PepsiCo ya sayi kamfanin Pepsi Bottling Group da PepsiAmericas da darajarsu ta kai dala biliyan 21
 Kamfanin GE ya sayar da sauran ribar kashi 49% na NBCUniversal ga Comcast da darajar dala biliyan 18
 Ana jiran a sayo Alstom na dala biliyan 13.5 daga GE.
 Kamfanin Diageo ya sayar da Pillsbury na dala biliyan 10 ga Janar Mills
 Kamfanin The Hillshire Brands ya sayar da dala biliyan 8.6 ga Tyson Foods .
 Sayen da Diageo ya yi wa kasuwancin giya da barasa na Seagram na dala biliyan 8
 Kamfanin News Corporation ya sayi Dow Jones da darajarsa ta kai dala biliyan 6
 Kamfanin PepsiCo ya sayi Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods da darajarsu ta kai dala biliyan 5.4
 Raba kamfanin NewsCorp zuwa Fox na ƙarni na 21 da NewsCorp.

A watan Yulin 2006, Effron ya kafa Centerview Partners tare da Robert Pruzan, tsohon Shugaba na Arewacin Amurka a Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein da Shugaban Wasserstein Perella & Co. Waɗanda suka kafa Centerview tare sun haɗa da Stephen Crawford, tsohon Shugaba na Morgan Stanley, da Adam Chinn, tsohon abokin tarayya a Wachtell Lipton .  James M. Kilts, tsohon Shugaba na Gillette, shine ke jagorantar asusun hannun jari na kamfanin. 

Effron da abokan hulɗarsa sun ci gaba da riƙe cikakken iko da ci gaba mai ɗorewa tun lokacin da suka kafa kamfanin. A shekarar 2024, Centerview Partners ta kasance ta huɗu a cikin dukkan bankunan da ke da kuɗaɗen shiga na haɗe-haɗe da saye a Amurka 

 Wasu alaƙa 
Effron yana aiki a kwamitin amintattu na Majalisar Hulɗa da Ƙasashen Waje (Mataimakin Shugaba), Cibiyar Lincoln (Ma'aji), Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Metropolitan, Sabbin Hangen Nesa ga Makarantun Gwamnati, Haɗin gwiwa na Birnin New York, da Jami'ar Princeton . Haka kuma yana zaune a kwamitin ba da shawara na Aikin Hamilton  a Cibiyar Brookings .

A matsayinsa na ɗan jam'iyyar Democrat, Effron ya kasance fitaccen mai goyon bayan yakin neman zaben shugaban ƙasa na John Kerry a shekarar 2004 kuma mai goyon bayan yakin neman zaɓen shugaban ƙasa na Joe Biden a shekarar 2020. "Joe Biden picks up support from influential Wall Street fundraisers Marc Lasry and Blair Effron, who backed Obama and Clinton". CNBC. December 19, 2019. Ya kuma karɓi baƙuncin Obama a gidansa na Upper East Side Manhattan a watan Mayun 2014 da Hillary Clinton a watan Yunin 2015.  Effron ya ba da gudummawar sharhin siyasa da kasuwanci ga wasu kafafen yaɗa labarai ciki har da Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg da sauran wallafe-wallafe.       A watan Agustan 2022, Shugaba Joe Biden ya naɗa Effron a matsayin memba na Hukumar Ba da Shawara kan Leken Asiri ta Shugaban Ƙasa.  Ya yaba wa tarihin gwamnatin Biden a bainar jama'a, yana mai bayyana a talabijin na Bloomberg cewa shugabancin Biden ya samar da "kwanciyar hankali a fannin tattalin arziki, ci gaba mai kyau da kasuwanni a ko'ina"  da kuma a CNBC yana cewa "Gwamnati ta yi aiki mai ƙarfi wajen samun dokoki don taimakawa tattalin arziki." 

Effron ya amince da yakin neman zaben Kamala Harris na shugaban kasa a shekarar 2024, sannan ya shirya goyon baya ga Mataimakin Shugaban kasa a cikin al'ummar kasuwanci.   Ya bayyana a CNBC cewa Harris ya fahimci muhimmancin daidaita manufofi da kamfanoni masu zaman kansu  da kuma a Bloomberg TV cewa shugabannin kamfanoni sun fi son kwanciyar hankali da tattalin arziki mai tushen kasuwa. 

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