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Straight is a private investor and investment-banking consultant specializing in the insurance industry. Throughout her successful career she has worked for numerous corporations including, Merck & Co. Inc and Bankers Trust Company. Straight has served as an advisory director of Securitas Capital, LLC, a global private equity investment firm specializing in insurance and financial services related industries. Straight is also a director of the property and casualty company National Atlantic Holding Corporation, Montpelier Re property catastrophe reinsurance company based in Bermuda, and of Neuberger and Berman’s mutual funds which have assets of approximately $20 billion. From 1987 to 1996, Straight was a principal of Head Company, a merchant banking firm specializing in the insurance industry. The Head Group acquired numerous companies including Integon Corporation, Sphere Drake, and Marketing One. Straight was president of Integon Corporation from 1990 to 1992 and served as a director until 1995. Straight also served as a director of Integon Life, Marketing One, and Drake Holdings. In 1982, Straight was appointed by Governor Thomas Kean to be a trustee of the Public Employees Retirement System of the State of New Jersey, serving until 1988. Straight was co-chair of Governor Christine Todd Whitman’s Budget Advisory Committee and served on Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Budget Transition Team. Appointed by Governor Whitman to the Board of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority in 1994, Straight was vice chairman from 1996 to January 2003. She also served on Mayor Guiliani and Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Private/Public Initiatives Council and is a former trustee of the New Jersey Network Foundation and a past president of the Financial Women’s Association of New York. Straight is the past president and co-founder of the WISH List, a national donor network that supports pro-choice Republican women for high political office. Straight is a graduate of Bloomfield High School. She received her BA from Wilson College and her MBA from New York University as well as an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Wilson College.
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