Mitt Romney - Biography

Mitt Romney is the Republican Governor of Massachusetts. Romney is perhaps best known for taking charge of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics in 1999 after the bribery scandal and leading a very successful organization.
Romney has been a highly successful executive in business and government. He was Vice President, then CEO of Bain and Company. In 1984, he founded venture capital firm Bain Capital which “founded, acquired or invested in hundreds of companies including Staples, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Domino’s, Sealy, Brookstone, and The Sports Authority.”
Governor Romney received his BA with Highest Honors from Brigham Young University in 1971. In 1975, he was awarded an MBA from Harvard Business School and was named a Baker Scholar. In 1975, he also received his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Harvard Law School.