Members of Joe Biden's 2008 VP transition team
Edward (Ted) Kaufman
Mark Gitenstein
Members of Joe Biden's Presidential Transition team
Jeff Zients
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gitenstein
Mark Henry Gitenstein is an American lawyer who served as the United States Ambassador to Romania from 2009 to 2012. He was nominated by President Barack Obama on June 11, 2009[1] and confirmed by the United States Senate on July 8, 2009.[2] As of December 14, 2012 he has completed his diplomatic assignment and has returned to private life in the United States.
Gitenstein is of Romanian Jewish heritage, as his grandparents were immigrants from Botoșani,[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaufman
Edward Emmett Kaufman (born March 15, 1939) is an American politician and former businessman who served as a United States Senator from Delaware[1] from 2009 to 2010. He chaired the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program; he was the second and final person to hold the position, succeeding then-law-school-professor Elizabeth Warren. Kaufman is a Democrat.
Kaufman was appointed to the Senate to fill the term of longtime Senator Joe Biden, who was elected Vice President of the United States in 2008. Prior to becoming a U.S. Senator, Kaufman had served as an adviser to Biden for much of his political career.
Kaufman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[3] the son of Helen (née Carroll), a teacher, and Manuel Kaufman, a social worker. His father was of Russian Jewish ancestry and his mother was of Irish descent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Zients
Jeffrey D. Zients (born November 12, 1966) is an American chief executive officer, management consultant, and entrepreneur. Zients is currently the President of Cranemere.[1] From February 2014 to January 2017, he served as Director of the United States National Economic Council and President Obama's Economic Advisor. Zients previously served as the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget.[2]
Zients's assumption of the role of Director of the National Economic Council was delayed by his acceptance of an assignment from President Barack Obama to fix the problems of HealthCare.gov. According to Time's March 2014 cover story "Obama's Trauma Team", Zients is widely credited with salvaging HealthCare.gov.[3] As a result, he was often referred to as "Mr. Fix-It" within the Obama Administration
Zients was raised in a Jewish family,[6] is a native of Kensington, Maryland,[7] and lives in the Washington, D.C. area.[8] He graduated in 1984 from St. Albans School, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree, summa cum laude,[9] from Duke University. Zients worked in management consulting for Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) and Bain & Company, a management consulting firm that provides advice to public, private and non-profit organizations. Following this role he was appointed as chief operating officer of DGB Enterprises, a holding company for the Advisory Board Company, Corporate Executive Board, and Atlantic Media Company.
In 2018 Zients joined the Board of Facebook and the Audit and Risk Oversight Committee.[21] According to The Wall Street Journal, he declined to seek re-election in 2020 over differences with company leadership over governance and its policies around political discourse.[22