LittleSis: Jahm Najafi

Mr. Najafi has been the CEO of Najafi Companies since 2002. He was a partner and COO of Pivotal Group from 1990 to 2002. He worked at Salomon Brothers Investment Banking, now a division of Citigroup, from 1986 to 1990. Mr. Najafi earned his Masters in Business and Economics from Harvard University after earning his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Vice Chairman for the Phoenix Suns and an A Governor on the board of the National Basketball Association. He is active with the Young Presidents’ Organization, Urban Land Institute and served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Phoenix Country Day School. Additionally, he has served on Arizona State University’s Committee for Design Excellence, the Board of Directors for the Phoenix Symphony and Phoenix Metropolitan Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, as well as other civic organizations. He is a founding partner of Social Venture Partners Arizona, which is a pooled, philanthropic fund that “invests” in emerging nonprofit organizations in a manner analogous to a venture capital fund investing in an emerging business.

Donor	Common Recipients
William D Budinger	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, James E Pederson, Ann Kirkpatrick, Fred Duval, Paul Babbitt
George Cowgill	John Kerry, Harry E Mitchell, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, James E Pederson, Ann Kirkpatrick, Paul Babbitt
Bernard L Schwartz	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Democratic National Committee, Jared Polis, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Ann Kirkpatrick
John Hunting	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Harry E Mitchell, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Kerry Victory 2004, Ann Kirkpatrick, Paul Babbitt
A Richard Diebold	Hillary Clinton, Raúl Grijalva, John Kerry, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, James E Pederson, Ann Kirkpatrick, Bob Lord
Andrew Tobias	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Harry E Mitchell, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Jared Polis, James E Pederson, Ann Kirkpatrick
Andrew M Federhar	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Harry E Mitchell, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Competitive Edge PAC, Ann Kirkpatrick, Fred Duval, Paul Babbitt, Chuck Blanchard
Cindy Harrell-Horn	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Harry E Mitchell, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Kerry Victory 2004, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Ann Kirkpatrick
Patricia Lee Refo	Hillary Clinton, Harry E Mitchell, Barack Obama, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, James E Pederson, Competitive Edge PAC, Ann Kirkpatrick, Bob Lord
Susan M Freeman	Hillary Clinton, Harry E Mitchell, Barack Obama, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, James E Pederson, Competitive Edge PAC, Ann Kirkpatrick, Bob Lord
Richard J Phelps	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John McCain, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Democratic National Committee, Kerry Victory 2004, Ann Kirkpatrick
Henry Christensen III	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John McCain, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Democratic National Committee, Kerry Victory 2004, Ann Kirkpatrick
David Bodney	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John McCain, Harry E Mitchell, Barack Obama, Kerry Victory 2004, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Fred Duval, Paul Babbitt
Bruce N Berger	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Ann Kirkpatrick, Bob Lord, Paul Babbitt
Barry Diller	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John McCain, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Kerry Victory 2004, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee
Wayne Jordan	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Kerry Victory 2004, Ann Kirkpatrick, Paul Babbitt
Michael M Adler	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John McCain, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Jared Polis, Fred Duval
Jerome Hirsch	Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Harry E Mitchell, Barack Obama, George W Bush, Democratic National Committee, Ann Kirkpatrick, Bob Lord
Edward J Robson	John McCain, Harry E Mitchell, George W Bush, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Competitive Edge PAC, Salvatore A Diciccio, Fred Duval, Paul Babbitt
Barbra Streisand	Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, James E Pederson, Ann Kirkpatrick

Donor

Common Recipients

William D Budinger

Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, James E Pederson, Ann Kirkpatrick, Fred Duval, Paul Babbitt

George Cowgill

John Kerry, Harry E Mitchell, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, James E Pederson, Ann Kirkpatrick, Paul Babbitt

Bernard L Schwartz

Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Democratic National Committee, Jared Polis, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, Ann Kirkpatrick

John Hunting

Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Harry E Mitchell, Barack Obama, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Kerry Victory 2004, Ann Kirkpatrick, Paul Babbitt

A Richard Diebold

Hillary Clinton, Raúl Grijalva, John Kerry, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Democratic National Committee, Arizona State Democratic Central Executive Committee, James E Pederson, Ann Kirkpatrick, Bob Lord