LittleSis: Richard D Nanula

When he was appointed chief financial officer of the Walt Disney Co. at age 31, he was the youngest CFO in Fortune 500 history. When he became CEO of Starwood Hotels in 1998, he was one of the first black Fortune 500 chiefs. Richard Nanula later became CFO of drug giant Amgen and served on the board of Boeing. Nanula resigned in July 2013 from private equity firm Colony Capital and the Miramax film company, where he was chairman. Nanula was key to Disney’s success in the ’90s. When EuroDisney was sucking billions of capital, the young Nanula negotiated with Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud to help save Paris’s version of Disneyland from bankruptcy. Actually, Nanula was so cautious that he discouraged Eisner from buying a TV network—which Eisner went ahead and did, acquiring ABC in a $19 billion deal in 1995. That purchase brought Disney ESPN and turned out to be a very wise investment. Nanula went on to head Disney Stores and was on the company’s fast track for 12 years before his best friend from Harvard Business School, Barry Sternlicht, wooed him away to run Starwood Hotels and Resorts. At Starwood, the golden boy’s success began to unravel. Nanula, calm and self-possessed, and Sternlicht, who is intense and impetuous, couldn’t stand working with each other. They veered toward divorce corporate-style. Nanula never got back on the fast track. Dismissing Eisner’s invitation to go back to Disney, he briefly ran an Internet startup, Broadband Sports, whose investors included Michael Dell and former Viacom CEO Frank Biondi. The firm went bust a year or s after Nanula joined. His tenure as CFO of Amgen lasted six years but ended with controversy over late public disclosure of disappointing drug-study results. At Los Angeles-based Colony Capital since 2008, Nanula was viewed as a smooth and astute businessman who operated below the radar. As chairman of Miramax, which Colony acquired from Disney in 2010, he was trying to restore the film studio to the stature it had when it was run by the prolific Weinstein brothers.

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Russell Budd	Evan Bayh, Barbara Boxer, Tom Carper, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Charles Spittal Robb, Al D’Amato, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Jay Rockefeller, Kent Conrad
S Daniel Abraham	Evan Bayh, Howard Lawrence Berman, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Ben Nelson, Barack Obama, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Henry Scott Baesler, Al D’Amato, Bill Bradley, Bob Dole, Al Gore, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Effective Government Committee, Mitt Romney
Stanley S. Hubbard	Richard Burr, Chuck Grassley, John Kerry, Jack Reed, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Charles Spittal Robb, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Sam Melville Gibbons, Larry Pressler, Al Gore, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Mitt Romney, Bill Weld, Kent Conrad
Robert A Daly	Howard Lawrence Berman, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Charles Spittal Robb, Bill Bradley, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Effective Government Committee, Motion Picture Association of America Inc Political Action Committee, Mike Synar, Jay Rockefeller
Barry M Meyer	Howard Lawrence Berman, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Charles Spittal Robb, Bill Bradley, Al Gore, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Effective Government Committee, Motion Picture Association of America Inc Political Action Committee, Mike Synar
Herbert H Kohl	Evan Bayh, Barbara Boxer, Tom Carper, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Ben Nelson, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Charles Spittal Robb, Henry Scott Baesler, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Jay Rockefeller, Kent Conrad
Audre Rapoport	Evan Bayh, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Ben Nelson, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, Tom Daschle, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Charles Spittal Robb, Bill Bradley, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Jay Rockefeller, Kent Conrad
Alan M Leventhal	Evan Bayh, Barbara Boxer, Tom Carper, John Kerry, Ben Nelson, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Charles Spittal Robb, Bill Bradley, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Effective Government Committee, Jay Rockefeller
James E Smith	Barbara Boxer, Richard Burr, Tom Carper, John Ensign, Elton W Gallegly, Chuck Grassley, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Sam Melville Gibbons, Larry Pressler, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Mike Synar, Kent Conrad
Edward A. Robinson	Evan Bayh, Barbara Boxer, Tom Carper, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Jack Reed, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Charles Spittal Robb, Henry Scott Baesler, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Jay Rockefeller, Kent Conrad
Robert H Asher	Evan Bayh, Howard Lawrence Berman, Barbara Boxer, Chuck Grassley, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Jack Reed, Hugh James Saxton, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Charles Spittal Robb, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Larry Pressler, Al Gore, Bob Graham, Mitt Romney, Jay Rockefeller
Romano Romani	Evan Bayh, Barbara Boxer, John Ensign, Chuck Grassley, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Ben Nelson, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Al D’Amato, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Effective Government Committee, Mitt Romney, Jay Rockefeller, Kent Conrad
Keith A Hebeisen	Evan Bayh, Barbara Boxer, Tom Carper, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Ben Nelson, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, Arlen Specter, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Charles Spittal Robb, Al D’Amato, Bill Bradley, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham
David Castagnetti	Evan Bayh, Howard Lawrence Berman, Barbara Boxer, Tom Carper, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Ben Nelson, Jack Reed, Tom Daschle, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Charles Spittal Robb, Henry Scott Baesler, Al Gore, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Jay Rockefeller, Kent Conrad
Marc Rowan	Evan Bayh, Tom Carper, John Ensign, Chuck Grassley, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Ben Nelson, Jack Reed, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Henry Scott Baesler, Al D’Amato, Bob Dole, Al Gore, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Mitt Romney
Nina Rosenwald	Evan Bayh, Howard Lawrence Berman, Richard Burr, John Ensign, Chuck Grassley, John Kerry, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Charles Spittal Robb, Al D’Amato, Bill Bradley, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Mitt Romney, Jay Rockefeller
Steven Rattner	Evan Bayh, Howard Lawrence Berman, John Kerry, Ben Nelson, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Charles Spittal Robb, Henry Scott Baesler, Al D’Amato, Bill Bradley, Larry Pressler, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Ronald M Meyer	Howard Lawrence Berman, Barbara Boxer, Chuck Grassley, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Charles Spittal Robb, Al D’Amato, Bill Bradley, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Motion Picture Association of America Inc Political Action Committee
Edgar Bronfman Jr	Evan Bayh, Howard Lawrence Berman, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, Tom Daschle, Charles Spittal Robb, Al D’Amato, Bill Bradley, Sam Melville Gibbons, Al Gore, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Motion Picture Association of America Inc Political Action Committee, Jay Rockefeller
Bernice Manocherian	Evan Bayh, Barbara Boxer, Richard Burr, Chuck Grassley, John Kerry, Patrick Leahy, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, Arlen Specter, Tom Daschle, Paul Coverdell, Charles Spittal Robb, Al Gore, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Bob Graham, Jay Rockefeller, Kent Conrad

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