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Charles Rossotti
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
In office
November 13, 1997 – November 6, 2002
PresidentBill Clinton
George W. Bush
Preceded byMichael Dolan (Acting)
Succeeded byBob Wenzel (Acting)
Personal details
Born (1941-01-17) January 17, 1941 (age 83)
New York City, New York, U.S.
EducationGeorgetown University (BA)
Harvard University (MBA)

Charles O. Rossotti (born January 17, 1941) is an American businessman, and former Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Rossotti has a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Georgetown University (1962) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (1964).

Early career

Rossotti was born in 1941 in New York City.[1] After obtaining his MBA, Rossotti was the first ever MBA hire for the Boston Consulting Group. But after only a year, Rossotti went to work for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. From 1965 to 1969, Rossotti worked for Robert McNamara, becoming Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis at age 29.

In 1970, Rossotti and several DOD colleagues co-founded American Management Systems, a technology and management consulting firm. Rossotti served as Chief Executive Officer from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.

Rossotti also sits on the Atlantic Council's[2] Board of Directors.

IRS years

In 1997, Rossotti was named Commissioner of Internal Revenue by then President Bill Clinton where he served for 5 years.

He was considered a reformer, upgrading the agency's technology, as well as turning the IRS into a more customer service oriented agency. Rossotti received a waiver from the Clinton administration that allowed him to retain his AMS stock in a blind trust.

After leaving the IRS, Rossotti joined The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm in Washington, D.C., as a Senior Advisor.

Publications

Rossotti is the author of two books:

  • Modernizing America's Tax Agency (2000)
  • Many Unhappy Returns: One Man's Quest To Turn Around The Most Unpopular Organization In America (Leadership for the Common Good) (Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 2005)

In addition, he provided a foreword to Al Gore's Reinventing Service At The IRS: Report Of The Customer Service Task Force National Performance Review (1997). He has also authored government publications and contributed to other works.

Notes

References

  1. ^ "Armed Forces Journal International". google.ca. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Board of Directors". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  1. http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/2000/april/qanda.html
Government offices
Preceded by
Michael Dolan
Acting
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
1997–2002
Succeeded by
Bob Wenzel
Acting