residence predecessor successor birth_place party office birth_date order term_start spouse article_title term_end name
new york , new york joe lockhart ari fleischer new york , new york , u.s. democrat white house press secretary 1 february 1964 23rd september 30 , 2000 christine anderson jake siewert
 january 20 , 2001 jake siewert
jake siewert

richard l. `` jake '' siewert , jr. -lrb- born february 1 , 1964 -rrb- is head of corporate communications for goldman sachs .
he served as white house press secretary during the administration of u.s. president bill clinton and in treasury department during the obama administration .
born in new york city , siewert is a 1986 graduate of yale university .
he later attended emory university , studying comparative literature and philosophy , and the university of california , berkeley , studying law for three years , but did not earn an advanced degree .
siewert held positions in the clinton administration including press secretary from september 30 , 2000 , to january 20 , 2001 , and was at alcoa from 2001-2009 , last as vice president for environment , health and safety and public strategy .
in june 2009 , siewert joined the obama administration in a position advising treasury secretary timothy geithner .
in march 2012 , siewert was appointed as global head of corporate communications for goldman sachs , succeeding lucas van praag .
an early task from the board to siewert was to be the `` rebranding '' of chief executive lloyd blankfein , whose three-year tenure has been marked by challenges to the firm and to blankfein himself .
