Fred P. Hochberg is an American academic and political administrator, former administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), and a member of the transition team of US President-Elect Barack Obama. He also contributes to a number of news outlets. He is considered to be a potential pick for U.S. Secretary of Commerce in the Obama Administration. If chosen, Hochberg would become the first openly gay cabinet member in U.S. history.
Academic careerHochberg received his B.A. from New York University and an MBA from Columbia before attending the executive leadership program of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was in December 2003 appointed Dean of the Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, a post he left in late 2008.
Business careerHochberg began his business career managing his mother's small-scale mail order business, the Lillian Vernon Corporation, which he developed over 20 years into a publicly traded direct marketing corporation described by Forbes as "one of the great success stories of American entrepreneurship." He is listed as of 2008 as a director of Fusion Telecommunications International, Incorporated, and has served as a board member on the Citizens' Budget Commission, FINCA (an international lending institution) and Seedco, a company offering financial, technical and management support to nonprofits and small businesses in disadvantaged communities. He is as of 2008 a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Political careerIn 1998 Hochberg became deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration; he later became the organization's acting administrator and remained in post until January 2001, serving also on US President Bill Clinton's Management Council.
Hochberg is an Agency Review team leader on US President-elect Barack Obama's transition team.
Hochberg, who is openly gay, has also served as chair of the Human Rights Campaign, a prominent lesbian and gay rights group. In the April 2007 issue of Out Magazine he was ranked the number fifteen most powerful gay person in America. He lives with his partner Tom Healy, an arts administrator.
He has also served on the boards of Playwrights Horizon and the Wolfsonian Art Museum, and on the Democratic National Committee.
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