Former Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker will join Cambridge, MA-based venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners as an executive in residence, he revealed in an e-mail to his supporters today. “I’ll be working with them to identify small and mid-size firms—primarily in the health care world—that the firm can partner with and help succeed,” Baker, the former chief of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, said in the e-mail. Baker, who lost to Democratic Governor Deval Patrick in November, says he prefers the experience of working with entrepreneurs and small business owners to taking a leadership role a large company.
Author: Erin Kutz
Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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