Born in Brooklyn on April 4, 1948 Dick Parsons is now the Chairman of the Board of Time Warner. Responsible for a major 165 billion dollar merger with AOL. Parsons helped pave the way for a new media and business era. He's also the Current chairman of Citi Group. He graduated from the University of Hawaii. He earned a Juris Doctor from Albany Law School in 1971, coming top of his class. Parsons, who is a prominent moderate African American Republican served an internship at the New York State Legislature, at which time he was invited to work as a lawyer for the staff of the then New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. When Rockefeller was appointed Vice President of the United States in 1974, Parsons followed him to Washington D.C. where he worked directly with President Gerald Ford. He also met a deputy attorney general, Harold R. Tyler, and one of his aides, a young Rudolph W. Giuliani, with whom he was to be closely associated - supporting him in his campaign for New York mayor and heading his transitional council.Parsons is now a member of the economic advisory team for President Barack Obama. He met with the then President-elect on Friday, November 7, along with many other economic experts, to discuss measures to solve the current economic crisis. After New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson withdrew his name from consideration for the position of Secretary of Commerce in the Obama Administration, Parson's name was floated as a possible nominee. Dick Parsons is truly a face of Brooklyn.