Harvey Golub ventures forth

Since stepping down as CEO of American Express in January 2001, the former McKinsey consulting wunderkind has taken on a number of part-time gigs: senior adviser to Lazard, director of Dow Jones and Warnaco and chairman of tech start-ups AirClic and ClientLogic.

Since stepping down as CEO of American Express in January 2001, the former McKinsey consulting wunderkind has taken on a number of part-time gigs: senior adviser to Lazard, director of Dow Jones and Warnaco and chairman of tech start-ups AirClic and ClientLogic. Last month the restless Golub, 62, assumed yet another assignment. He’s the new chairman of New York,based TH Lee Putnam Ventures, a technology-focused venture capital fund co-sponsored by Thomas H. Lee Partners and Putnam Investments. Part of Golub’s job is to weed out the winners from the losers among the companies that have collectively received $500 million from the fund and to ponder how to invest an additional $600 million committed through 2006. “I have received a report from the managing directors,” says the straight-shooting Golub. “But now I,m doing an independent review.”

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