Robin Hood Turns to Ex-Paratrooper, Citigroup Veteran as CEO
- Wes Moore, raised in the Bronx, starts at nonprofit in June
- He succeeds David Saltzman as head of poverty-fighting group
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Wes Moore, a Rhodes Scholar who served in combat in Afghanistan, is taking an elite command post in the fight against poverty.
New York’s Robin Hood Foundation, the Wall Street-funded nonprofit that works with the city’s poor, picked Moore to be its chief executive officer, said Larry Robbins, the group’s chairman and founder of Glenview Capital Management. He’ll start at the end of June.