Austin Beutner

Austin Beutner (born 1960) is an American businessman, civic leader and philanthropist. He co-founded Evercore Partners and is the former publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was also the First Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles in 2011 and ran for Mayor of Los Angeles in 2012. Beutner, the son of immigrants, was born in New York and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His mother is a retired schoolteacher and his father is a retired manufacturing engineer. 2Career 3Education and early career Beutner attended Dartmouth College, where he majored in economics. After graduation in 1982 he went to work at Smith Barney as a financial analyst. At the age of 29, he became the youngest partner at The Blackstone Group, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. In the 1990s he co-founded the investment banking group Evercore Partners which went public in 2006. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Beutner went to work for the U.S. State Departmen