Who owns the Dominion Voting Systems? July 16, 2018: Dominion Voting Systems (“Dominion Voting”) announces that it has been acquired by its management team and Staple Street Capital.
* Staple Street Capital is a private equity firm founded in 2009 based in New York. * The co-founders Stephen D. Owens and Hootan Yaghoobzadeh. * They are veterans of The Carlyle Group and Cerberus Capital Management, also the Board members of Dominion Voting. * The official website of Staple Street Capital has deleted the team introduction.
William E. Kennard is an Executive Board Member of Staple Street Capital, also worked for The Carlyle Group.
Kennard nominated as ambassador to the EU by Barack Obama in August 2009 and is a member of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. He was a key force behind Obama’s decision in February 2013 to launch negotiations on the ambitious Transatlantic Trade.He was also chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission after being appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Before nominated as ambassador to the EU by Barack Obama in 2009, Kennard was managing director of the Carlyle Group(2001-2009) where he led investments in the telecommunications and media sectors.
