NAME — Neel Tushar Kashkari
AGE — 41. Born in Akron, Ohio, July 30, 1973
PARTY — Republican
EXPERIENCE — Head of global investments at Newport Beach-based bond investment company PIMCO, 2009-2013; headed U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Stability, overseeing the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program, 2008-2009; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, 2007; vice president at Goldman Sachs & Co. in San Francisco, 2002-2006; aerospace engineer at Redondo Beach-based TRW Inc., 1998-2000.
EDUCATION — Bachelor’s in engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995; master’s in engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997; MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
FAMILY — Divorced
QUOTE — “I’ve modeled our campaign over what I think the party should be focused on, the issues that a majority of Californians care about: good education for their kids; good jobs; a fair chance to work hard. If I had to pick a tag line for the Republican Party, it’s the party of hard work. If you want to work hard, we want you with us.”
