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[207.46.163.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id jp3si11104081pbc.216.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 09 Oct 2013 08:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of doug.band@teneoholdings.com designates 207.46.163.242 as permitted sender) client-ip=207.46.163.242; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of doug.band@teneoholdings.com designates 207.46.163.242 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=doug.band@teneoholdings.com Received: from BN1PR07MB150.namprd07.prod.outlook.com (10.242.216.18) by BN1PR07MB135.namprd07.prod.outlook.com (10.242.216.22) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.785.10; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 15:45:27 +0000 Received: from BN1PR07MB152.namprd07.prod.outlook.com (10.242.216.28) by BN1PR07MB150.namprd07.prod.outlook.com (10.242.216.18) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.785.10; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 15:45:21 +0000 Received: from BN1PR07MB152.namprd07.prod.outlook.com ([169.254.12.130]) by BN1PR07MB152.namprd07.prod.outlook.com ([169.254.12.130]) with mapi id 15.00.0785.001; Wed, 9 Oct 2013 15:45:21 +0000 From: Doug Band <doug.band@teneoholdings.com> To: JOHN Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Thread-Topic: Re: Thread-Index: AQHOvhRv9Uv2DveaI0K1Mhbm4jUDAZnskPSW Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 15:45:20 +0000 Message-ID: <119f358c18d14df2b4a49b1d70a33170@BN1PR07MB152.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> References: <bccfd6e8c5ef4772b5281ac777851ccb@BN1PR07MB152.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <bccfd6e8c5ef4772b5281ac777851ccb@BN1PR07MB152.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [178.239.82.32] x-forefront-prvs: 0994F5E0C5 x-forefront-antispam-report: SFV:NSPM;SFS:(189002)(199002)(377454003)(53806001)(47736001)(54356001)(50986001)(51856001)(47976001)(4396001)(33646001)(83072001)(49866001)(76796001)(76576001)(76786001)(77096001)(46102001)(56816003)(69226001)(74366001)(74706001)(77982001)(59766001)(79102001)(80976001)(83322001)(74316001)(81816001)(221173001)(76482001)(81686001)(74876001)(56776001)(54316002)(74662001)(31966008)(47446002)(74502001)(65816001)(81542001)(80022001)(66066001)(85306002)(63696002)(81342001)(24736002);DIR:OUT;SFP:;SCL:1;SRVR:BN1PR07MB150;H:BN1PR07MB152.namprd07.prod.outlook.com;CLIP:178.239.82.32;FPR:;RD:InfoNoRecords;MX:1;A:1;LANG:en; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Return-Path: doug.band@teneoholdings.com X-OriginatorOrg: teneoholdings.com We dropping this idea? Didn't hear back ________________________________________ From: Doug Band Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 3:37:02 PM To: JOHN Podesta Subject: Chief, Thank you again for doing this, means more to me than you know. Had a hard time writing this as you can imagine. I spent hours in front of = a blank screen so I had some help from my teneo folks Tried to tone it down but will let you have a look Best, Doug Dear..., Last week, I was in New York for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and I = saw a friend who, without his ingenuity and help, CGI would never have exis= ted. Some of you know Doug Band personally, some of you have heard about h= im for years. For those of you who only know about him from the press cove= rage he received last week, it only felt right to take the time to help set= the record straight and talk about Doug from the perspective of someone wh= o knows him well, especially since Doug is a private person who would never= do this himself. I first met Doug when he was a young man working in the White House, all of= 22 years old and fresh out of college. Since that moment, Doug has spent a= lifetime serving President Clinton and advancing his causes and beliefs. D= oug was then as he is today =96 smart, loyal and driven to make a differenc= e in the world. The White House is full of ambitious people: everyone knows that. But even= in the building that houses some of the people who literally run the world= , Doug outworked everyone around him (which is how he then became the young= est deputy assistant to the President), . And on top of this, he got his M= asters and JD from Georgetown at night =96 in fact, he was my student there= , a full five years after I first met him. After President Clinton=92s term ended, the Clinton family asked Doug to st= ay and work in the post-presidency. Doug turned down a lucrative job at Gol= dman Sachs to help the President transition into private life, even in the = midst of a difficult time when President Clinton=92s approval rating was lo= wer than it had ever been, and many had left the President=92s side for gre= ener pastures. The decision Doug made to stick with the President was made = out of loyalty, and I always admired that. But in a very short period of time, and at an astonishingly young age, Doug= not only helped build and guide the Clinton Foundation, he also traveled t= he world with the President , came up with the idea for the Clinton Global = Initiative, and worked to turn it into an entity that has helped literally = hundreds of millions of people across the globe. And Doug=92s work isn=92t limited to CGI. When President Obama asked Presid= ent Clinton to go to North Korea in 2009 to free two journalists that had b= een imprisoned, Doug was the critical piece in making the trip happen and l= eading negotiations. It was Doug that helped organize the relief efforts fo= r several global disasters including the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, 2004 Indi= an Ocean tsunami and 2005=92s Hurricane Katrina. And Doug did all of this = while also being someone who has spent most of the past dozen years saying = no=94 =96 an unenviable task for every close Presidential advisor who has t= o act in the best interest of the President. As someone who has also held t= his kind of a role, I know full well that it is a difficult position to be = in. That=92s why CEOs, world leaders leaving office, philanthropists and academ= ics from all of the world seek Doug=92s advice and help: he has a truly glo= bal perspective, he knows how to make things happen, and he works harder th= an anyone else. Those are good qualities to have. And that=92s why people are drawn to him. It=92s why he teaches at NYU, is= on the board of Georgetown University, serves on an array of committees an= d boards for a wide variety of causes, and takes hundreds of meetings each = year with young men and women who come to him looking for life and career a= dvice. For those of you that know Doug, can you ever recall him turning dow= n the chance to help out a young person? How many people do you know that c= an credit Doug with helping them find their job, decide where to attend sch= ool or grow professionally? I can tell you it=92s a long list of people. Now, in this next chapter in Doug=92s life =96 and still at an incredibly y= oung age =96 he has created and built a new organization, Teneo, an advisor= y business that in just two years has over 200 employees in 11 countries. T= eneo has hired top level talent from both sides of the aisle, from every ma= jor institution, government agency, and industry. And while many of you pr= obably saw President Clinton=92s incredibly supportive and positive comment= s about Doug on CBS This Morning, Teneo=92s work has extremely little to do= with President Clinton, if anything. Doug doesn=92t need to build a firm = on the back of anyone: anyone who knows him knows that his own talents are = more than enough. I don=92t often write emails like this, but sometimes when you see a wrong,= you feel compelled to right it. That=92s the case here, and even though D= oug will probably hate everything I just wrote, someone needed to set the r= ecord straight, and I=92m glad I had the chance to do it.