Thomas J. Healey

Thomas J. Healey
Thomas J. Healey
Born	September 14, 1942 (age 84); Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Entrepreneur, academic
Years active	1970s–present
Known for	Partner at Goldman Sachs; Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School; Assistant Secretary for Domestic Finance at the U.S. Treasury
Spouse	Margaret Healey
Children	2

Thomas J. Healey (born September 14, 1942) is a prominent American entrepreneur and academic. He held a partnership position at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. During the 1980s, he was appointed Assistant Secretary for Domestic Finance at the United States Treasury, and in the 1990s, he contributed to the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration Advisory Council Working Group, focusing on how alternative tax proposals affect ERISA employer-sponsored plans.

Early life and education

Born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 14, 1942, Healey completed his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University in 1964. He subsequently obtained an MBA from Harvard University in 1966 and later took on a teaching role as a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School.

Financial career

Healey led the corporate finance division at Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. throughout the 1970s. In 1985, he initiated the Real Estate Capital Markets Group at Goldman Sachs and went on to create its Pension Services Group. By 1996, he had advanced to managing partner. Additionally, Healey has served as treasurer for the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management and holds a senior fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School. He is a partner at Healey Development LLC and has co-founded five investment enterprises, including KKR; FIA Timber Partners, specializing in timber investments; Prisma Capital Partners; ZAIS Group Holdings; and Anthos Capital, which focuses on seed-stage private equity.

Political career

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan appointed Healey as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance. He also took on leadership of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation and provided guidance to the U.S. Department of Labor's ERISA Advisory Council. In 2014, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie named him to the Pension and Health Benefits Commission.

Bibliography

Porter, R., Glauber, R., & Healey, T.J., editors. (2011). New Directions in Financial Regulation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Philanthropy

Healey has chaired the Rockefeller Foundation Investment Committee and played a key role in establishing the Healey Family Student Center at Georgetown University, which opened in 2014. His involvement with the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management has been significant. Among his honors are the 2012 Catholic Charities Caritas Award for his work supporting disadvantaged populations, induction into the Tri-County Scholarship Fund Hall of Fame in 2011, and receiving the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Distinguished Service Award in 2010.

Personal life

Thomas Healey is married to Margaret, who holds a doctorate in psychology. They have two children: T. Jeremiah Healey and Megan R. Healey Hagerty, along with nine grandchildren. His brother is Joseph G. Healey, a priest affiliated with Maryknoll.

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