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Curt Hessler brings varied and substantial business and legal experience to RampRate's board. Hessler has extensive experience in M&A, finance, strategic development, and law. He has served on the boards of 5 public companies and numerous private companies and non-profit organizations and is a seasoned executive with extensive experience at senior levels in the information technology, media and government sectors. He has held a variety of senior positions at major corporations including Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Unisys and Executive Vice President of the Times-Mirror Group. Hessler was most recently chairman and founding CEO of 101communications, a Los Angeles-based media company. He has held several government positions including Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. He holds a Masters degree in Economics from University of California at Berkeley, a JD from Yale Law School and a BA from Harvard and is also a Rhodes Scholar, and currently teaches at UCLA Law School.
Hessler received his B.A. from Harvard College. He was a Rhodes Scholar of Balliol College at Oxford (1966-69). He received his J.D. from Yale Law School (1973) and his M.A. in Economics from UC Berkeley (1976). He clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. (1973-74) and then clerked for Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court (1974-75) before joining Munger, Tolles & Olson as an Associate (1975-76). From 1981-83, he practiced law as a partner at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison. From 1976-81, he served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, Executive Director of President's Economic Group, and Associate Director of OMB. He has held various CEO and board-level leadership positions in media and IT companies, such as Unisys Corporation (Vice-Chair), Times Mirror Company (EVP), I-net. Inc (Chairman), and Quarterdeck Corporation (President). Most recently, he was chairman and founding CEO of 101 Communications LLC, an IT media company, built from 10 acquisitions in the US, UK and Germany. | 