Randal Keith Quarles is founder and head of The Cynosure Group, a private investment firm backed by a network of large family offices in the United States. Before founding Cynosure, he was a partner of The Carlyle Group, one of the world?s largest private equity firms. From August 2001 until October 2006, he held several important financial policy posts in the George W. Bush administration, ultimately serving as Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance. As Under Secretary, he was the lead advocate for imposing greater regulation on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, arguing that they posed significant risk to the financial sector, and argued for fundamental reform of the entire financial regulatory system?extending broader and more uniform federal regulation to investment banks and insurance companies?because the current system restricted regulators' ability to observe and limit risk in the system. 

September 5th, 1957 in United States of America (Age 67)