John K. Delaney
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John K. Delaney, age 46, is an entrepreneur and financier. He is the Co-founder and Executive Chairman of CapitalSource Inc. (NYSE: CSE), a commercial lender that provides financing to middle-market companies. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board of CapitalSource Bank, a California depository.

From 1993 until its sale to Heller Financial in 1999, Delaney was founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HealthCare Financial Partners, Inc., (former NYSE: HCF), a provider of commercial financing to healthcare service companies.

Delaney received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his juris doctor degree from Georgetown University

Delaney is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Georgetown University and is the immediate past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St Patrick’s Episcopal Day School, the largest independent elementary school in Washington, D.C. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, and as Chair of the Nominating Committee of the National Symphony Orchestra. Delaney is a member of the Board of Directors of OneCalifornia Bank, a community development bank.

Delaney and his wife, April, founded the Delaney Family Fund. The organization supports programs that focus on at-risk families and education. They established the Delaney Family Endowed Chair in Public Interest Law at Georgetown Law Center and have funded significant scholarships in the area of public interest law. Because of his work for the Catholic Church, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick conferred the papal honor the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice on Delaney in 2006.

Blog Entries by John K. Delaney

We Cut A Bad Deal

Posted January 14, 2010 | 15:50:12 (EST)

All taxpayers feel a tremendous sense of frustration as they see many tens of billions of dollars of bonuses paid to the same mega banks that were on the brink of bankruptcy and were only saved by massive government rescue money and support. We are not satisfied by the fact...

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We Need New Banks

Posted November 18, 2009 | 15:27:31 (EST)

As the Administration wrestles with how to get credit flowing to small- to mid-sized businesses, it encounters three significant problems.

First, government-guaranteed SBA loans--even in a more robust form--do not address the financing needs for the bulk of the small-to mid-sized businesses.

Second, smaller banks are under tremendous...

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Where Will the Jobs Come From?

Posted October 2, 2009 | 12:59:30 (EST)

First came TARP, which set aside $700 billion to bail out Wall Street and other financial institutions. Next came the stimulus package, which allocated $787 billion for various programs primarily intended to stem job losses in the short term. Yet of the well over $1 trillion in federal funds, only...

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