ELECTION 2012 The Race for the House

 Rep. Jim Himes & Steve Obsitnik face off in District 4

Jim Himes

THE CANDIDATES

CONGRESSMAN JIM HIMES is currently serving his second term in Congress and is a member of the House Committee on Financial Services.

Born in Lima, Peru in 1966 to American parents, he spent the early years of his childhood in Peru and Colombia while his father worked for the Ford Foundation and UNICEF. At the age of ten, Jim moved with his mother and sisters to the United States. After receiving his Bachelors degree from Harvard University, he received a Rhodes Scholarship which enabled him to continue his studies of Latin America at Oxford University in England. Prior to his service in Congress, he ran the New York City branch of The Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit that addresses the challenges of urban poverty. He served as a commissioner of the Greenwich Housing Authority, ultimately chairing the board and leading it through a much-needed program of reforms. Jim went on to become an elected member of his town’s finance board. He began his professional career at Goldman Sachs & Co. During his 12-year career there, he worked extensively in Latin America and headed the bank’s telecommunications technology group. He lives in Greenwich with his wife Mary and two daughters, Emma and Linley.

Steve Obsitlik

STEVE OBSITNIK is the Republican nominee for Congress from Connecticut’s 4th District. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis with a Bachelors degree in electrical engineering, Obsitnik had a five-year career in the U.S. Navy primarily serving as a Lieutenant on board a Sturgeon class nuclear attack submarine. He was awarded eight medals during deployments to the Arctic Circle, Atlantic and Mediterranean. He also served in the Pentagon with the Bureau of Naval Personnel and Submarine Squadron Six in Charleston, S.C. After completing his naval duty, he attended The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with an MBAS in finance. Over the past 20 years, he has worked in the technology industry as a business executive in both the Silicon Valley and Connecticut. Most recently, he was CEO of Quintel, a provider of wireless infrastructure to mobile operators with operations in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has served on several advisory, corporate and government boards including the U.S. Small Business Administration National Advisory Board. As an educator, he is an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the Jack Welch College of Business at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield.  He lives in Westport with his wife, Suzanne Tager and their two daughters.

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