![]() ![]() “I took a senior level job at KeyBank in January.” “I thought about looking for other jobs in government, but I had a nice experience, and I wanted to move back to the private sector,” he said. ![]() Working for middle-market companies is a lot different than trying to run the finances of a multibillion dollar, very sophisticated state treasury.” “It was obviously a very different type of job and pay structure. In 2008, he met Richard Cordray, Ohio’s treasurer, who asked him to come back to Ohio and be the CFO for the state, Ahmad said, noting that he accepted the job to change his career path. He earned a master’s degree, then moved to Chicago, where his sisters live, and worked at an investment bank there. ![]() He returned to America to study finance at the Harvard University Business School in Boston. He worked for Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment bank, in both New York and Tokyo. It was the mid-90s, and like others, Ahmad said, he went to work on Wall Street when he graduated from Columbia. “While there, I got involved in government (studies), student government, internships and organizations that started formalizing my interest in government as a potential longterm career option,” he said. So, how did the 1992 Hoover High School graduate get to this position?Īfter he graduated from Hoover, Ahmad left Stark County to study political science and economics at Columbia University in New York. On Monday, when Rahm Emanuel, former White House chief of staff for President Barack Obama, officially takes over as mayor of Chicago, Ahmad will become the comptroller for the city of more than 2.7 million people. Ahmad, one of The Repository’s Teens of the Month in April 1992, has gone far. “He was energetic and involved in a lot of things.” “I remember him being an excellent student,” said the director of guidance at Hoover High School. Barbara Tarantino had no doubt in 1992 that Amer Ahmad would go far in life. ![]()
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