Subject: RE: reference check for Debby Goldberg
From: "Anderson, Christine" <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:25:37 +0000

Extremely helpful, thanks!

From: John Podesta [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 12:05 PM
To: Anderson, Christine
Subject: Re: reference check for Debby Goldberg

I think she's good and well organized, and will have good strategic ideas, but Steve or you or someone senior at the firm will have to close.
On Jun 23, 2015 8:52 AM, "Anderson, Christine" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
John,

Great to see you at the Palmieri welcome gathering. Its nice to have the old gang congregating in the City.

We are considering hiring Debby Goldberg to run development for Schwarzman Scholars a post-graduate scholarship program Steve Schwarzman has set up in China.  I’ve met her over the years through mutual friends and she certainly seems very capable.  I was asked to check her references and I thought you might have a view on how effective she is as a fundraiser?  We have a $400 million fundraising target and have raised $340 m of that already. After that it will be an on-going effort to increase the size of the endowment.  We are looking for someone who can open new doors, manage the process and really develop an ongoing donor engagement program.

I realize your time is extremely limited, so a quick steer would be very helpful.

Thank you!
Christine

Christine Anderson
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