Phil Angelides, National Board Chair of the Apollo Alliance
Phil Angelides has made his mark in California and the nation as an effective public leader and as a successful businessman.
Mr. Angelides served from 1999-2007 as California State Treasurer and was the Democratic nominee for governor in 2006. Today, he is President and owner of Riverview Capital Investments, a firm focusing on smart growth and sustainable development ventures.
During his eight years in elected office, Mr. Angelides transformed the State Treasurer’s Office into a force for progress. The Associated Press reported that he made “the sleepy treasurer’s office a policy powerhouse,” and The Sacramento Bee praised Treasurer Angelides as “the most effective and dynamic state treasurer in a generation.”
As State Treasurer, Mr. Angelides served as a trustee for California’s two major pension funds with combined assets of nearly $400 billion, managed the State’s $57 billion investment fund, financed over $150 billion in schools, transportation, parks and other public projects, and earned record returns on state investments.
During his tenure as Treasurer, Mr. Angelides launched ground-breaking initiatives that directed $26 billion to promote smart growth and to create jobs, housing and opportunities in inner cities, catalyzing a wave of re-investment in urban centers across the country. He put the weight of the state’s pension funds behind investment in environmental technology and the fight against global warming -- seeding the “green-tech” investment revolution. He mobilized pension funds and investors across the nation to usher in a new era of corporate responsibility, protect investors, and restore integrity to the nation’s financial markets. And, Mr. Angelides created innovative programs to foster educational excellence and reform and to expand college opportunity.
For more than a decade prior to his election as State Treasurer, Mr. Angelides served as President and owner of River West Investments. Among his business ventures was the new town of Laguna West, a pioneering smart growth community, which was featured in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, and ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America,” and sparked a national dialogue around building more livable, environmentally responsible communities.
Phil Angelides has been active in the civic life of his community and State for more than three decades. In addition to being involved in numerous charitable causes, he served as Co-Chair of the Sacramento Mayor’s Commission on Education and the City’s Future in 1995-96, and then led a unique bi-partisan civic committee, which helped turn around the troubled Sacramento City Unified School District. He served as Chairman of the California Democratic Party from 1991 to 1993, leading a remarkable campaign that elected two women senators for the first time in any state’s history and carried the state for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 28 years. Mr. Angelides currently serves as the National Chairman of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of business, labor, environmental and community leaders committed to accelerating our nation’s transition to a clean energy future.
Mr. Angelides has received numerous awards for his work, including the National Inner City Leadership Award from the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City; the California League of Conservation Voters’ Environmental Leadership Award; and the Congress for the New Urbanism’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mr. Angelides, 54, is a graduate of Harvard University and a Coro Foundation Fellow. He and his wife, Julie, have three daughters – Megan, Christina and Arianna.
Mr. Angelides served from 1999-2007 as California State Treasurer and was the Democratic nominee for governor in 2006. Today, he is President and owner of Riverview Capital Investments, a firm focusing on smart growth and sustainable development ventures.
During his eight years in elected office, Mr. Angelides transformed the State Treasurer’s Office into a force for progress. The Associated Press reported that he made “the sleepy treasurer’s office a policy powerhouse,” and The Sacramento Bee praised Treasurer Angelides as “the most effective and dynamic state treasurer in a generation.”
As State Treasurer, Mr. Angelides served as a trustee for California’s two major pension funds with combined assets of nearly $400 billion, managed the State’s $57 billion investment fund, financed over $150 billion in schools, transportation, parks and other public projects, and earned record returns on state investments.
During his tenure as Treasurer, Mr. Angelides launched ground-breaking initiatives that directed $26 billion to promote smart growth and to create jobs, housing and opportunities in inner cities, catalyzing a wave of re-investment in urban centers across the country. He put the weight of the state’s pension funds behind investment in environmental technology and the fight against global warming -- seeding the “green-tech” investment revolution. He mobilized pension funds and investors across the nation to usher in a new era of corporate responsibility, protect investors, and restore integrity to the nation’s financial markets. And, Mr. Angelides created innovative programs to foster educational excellence and reform and to expand college opportunity.
For more than a decade prior to his election as State Treasurer, Mr. Angelides served as President and owner of River West Investments. Among his business ventures was the new town of Laguna West, a pioneering smart growth community, which was featured in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, and ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America,” and sparked a national dialogue around building more livable, environmentally responsible communities.
Phil Angelides has been active in the civic life of his community and State for more than three decades. In addition to being involved in numerous charitable causes, he served as Co-Chair of the Sacramento Mayor’s Commission on Education and the City’s Future in 1995-96, and then led a unique bi-partisan civic committee, which helped turn around the troubled Sacramento City Unified School District. He served as Chairman of the California Democratic Party from 1991 to 1993, leading a remarkable campaign that elected two women senators for the first time in any state’s history and carried the state for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 28 years. Mr. Angelides currently serves as the National Chairman of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of business, labor, environmental and community leaders committed to accelerating our nation’s transition to a clean energy future.
Mr. Angelides has received numerous awards for his work, including the National Inner City Leadership Award from the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City; the California League of Conservation Voters’ Environmental Leadership Award; and the Congress for the New Urbanism’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mr. Angelides, 54, is a graduate of Harvard University and a Coro Foundation Fellow. He and his wife, Julie, have three daughters – Megan, Christina and Arianna.