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Columbia, B.A., 1969
M.B.A., M.S., 1971

Michael B. Rothfeld is a 1969 graduate of Columbia College, received M.B.A. and M.S. degrees in 1971 from the university's graduate schools of Business and Journalism, and was a 1970-71 International Fellow at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. Mr. Rothfeld served as chair of the Board of Visitors of Columbia College and has served on the advisory board of the Graduate School of Journalism’s Knight-Bagehot Program in business and financial journalism.  He is a director of the Columbia Alumni Association.

Mr. Rothfeld is a theatrical producer and private equity investor. He has been an associate editor of FORTUNE, assistant to the chairman and CEO of Time Inc., an investment banking vice president of Salomon Brothers, a managing director in the investment banking division of The First Boston Corporation and, through private corporations, a general partner of Bessemer Capital Partners, L.P. and Bessemer Holdings, L.P.  He served as a director of The Overhead Door Corporation, Graphic Controls Corporation and Kelly Oil & Gas.

Mr. Rothfeld was a member in 1979 of the first cultural delegation from the United States to the People’s Republic of China.  He received the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards and was nominated for a TONY for the revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man.  He is a director of The Jed Foundation and member of the Committee For The Billy Rose Theater Collection at the Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.