1. Robert Vincent Stefanowski was born on May 21,1962 and is an American businessman and politician.
19 Facts About Bob Stefanowski
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Bob Stefanowski was the Republican Party nominee for Governor of Connecticut in 2018 and 2022.
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Stefanowski's father, Bob Stefanowski, was the scoreboard assistant for the Yale Bowl.
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Bob Stefanowski began as an auditor in Hartford, Connecticut for PricewaterhouseCoopers after graduating from Fairfield University.
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Bob Stefanowski worked at the GE Capital headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut.
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From 2008 to 2011, Bob Stefanowski was chairman and managing partner of 3i Group plc in London, England.
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Bob Stefanowski then served as chief financial officer of UBS, where he restructured the Investment Bank to meet Basel III regulatory requirements.
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From early 2019 to present, Bob Stefanowski has been employed by and in senior leadership and decision-making positions with Neom, a controversial planned futuristic development in the northwest of Saudi Arabia totally owned by the Saudi Government Wealth Fund, PIF.
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In September 2017, Bob Stefanowski announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor of Connecticut in 2018.
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Bob Stefanowski campaigned on phasing out the state income tax, corporate income tax, reducing business entity taxes, and eliminating the gift tax and the estate tax, in addition to using zero-based budgeting and creating a Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
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Bob Stefanowski's campaign ran television commercials, beginning in January 2018, in the Hartford-New Haven and New York media markets; his ads criticized Democratic governor Dannel P Malloy, promoting Stefanowski's economic proposals and criticizing Malloy's acceptance of publicly funded elections.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that Bob Stefanowski funded his campaign with a combination of fundraising and his own money, but that he had declined to state how much of his own money he would spend.
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Bob Stefanowski received endorsements from former Republican competitor Peter Lumaj, state representative Noreen Kokoruda, state senator Len Suzio, former US Comptroller General David M Walker, Middletown Planning and Zoning Commissioner Tyrell Brown, Middletown Board of Education member Edward Ford, Jr.
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At the May 2018 state Republican convention at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, the party endorsed Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton; Bob Stefanowski attended the convention but bypassed the formal vote, opting not to place his name into nomination.
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Bob Stefanowski secured a spot on the Republican primary ballot by collecting the requisite number of signatures.
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On January 19,2022, Bob Stefanowski declared his intent to run for governor again in the 2022 election.
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Bob Stefanowski won the Republican nomination at convention on May 6,2022, with Laura Devlin selected as his running mate.
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Bob Stefanowski is a Wharton Fellow, and has served as adjunct faculty to NYU Stern, London Business School, Cambridge University, and as a visiting professor of management practice at Oxford University.
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Bob Stefanowski is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst.