ACTOR MICHAEL DOUGLAS PRESENTS MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO MIKE BLOOMBERG
New York, NY - December 11, 2025 Academy Award winning actor, Michael Douglas, presented a musical tribute to Mike Bloomberg at the Pierre Hotel in New York on Thursday, December 11, 2025. Composed and produced by AIAC Chairman L. M. Levie, the tribute took the form of a classic Broadway musical stow stopper, and met with an immediate, sustained standing ovation by 500 distinguished leaders from the financial industry assembled at a luncheon to honor Mike Bloomberg for his decades of leadership in the financial industry and as the beloved major of New York City.
A link to the video follows:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R75GbMPu1aF4QramhJaqCYHEk4DmVzrq/view
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Following the musical tribute, Mike Bloomberg expressed his heartfelt gratitude and reviewed the strengths of New York City as a business and financial center, and his optimism for the future.
At the luncheon event, AIAC Chairman Levie’s invited distinguished guests included:
Theodore Roosevelt IV – Great-great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt; Managing Director at Barclays and Chairman of its Clean Tech Initiative, former partner of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb; former Navy SEAL officer. Chair of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions; leading voice for environmental conservation.
Lyndsay Howard – Senior Foreign Policy Analyst at Bloomberg LP and Foreign Policy Advisor to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Former Distinguished Scholar at the Kissinger Center at Johns Hopkins SAIS, serving as Executive Director of the America and the Future of World Order Project under Dr. Henry Kissinger. Previously served a decade in the U.S. Intelligence Community across Central Asia; member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Jacqueline Novogratz – Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen, a pioneering nonprofit that uses patient capital to fight global poverty, having impacted over 700 million people across Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States since 2001. She began her career at Chase Manhattan Bank before co-founding Duterimbere, Rwanda's first microfinance institution, in 1987 and later founding The Philanthropy Workshop at the Rockefeller Foundation. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Stanford Graduate School of Business, she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and serves as a trustee of the Aspen Institute. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed her to the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board. She is the author of The Blue Sweater and Manifesto for a Moral Revolution.
David Kenny – Executive Chairman of Nielsen; former CEO who led the company's transformation to a digital future and oversaw its $16 billion sale to private equity in 2022. Previously Chairman and CEO of The Weather Company (acquired by IBM) and SVP of IBM Watson and Cognitive Solutions. Co-founder and CEO of Digitas; also served as President of Akamai Technologies. Chairman of the Board of Teach for America; Harvard MBA.
Faanya L. Rose – Faanya L. Rose is President Emerita of The Explorers Club, where she made history in 2000 as the first woman and first British citizen elected president in its 96-year history, with legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl advocating for her election to the board. Born in Johannesburg, she lived in Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979, where she managed a 3,400-hectare farm bordering Hwange National Park and implemented conservation practices that helped boost the country's leopard population. Her exploration résumé includes observing Operation Noah—the world's largest wildlife rescue during the Kariba Dam flooding—joining Colonel John Blashford-Snell's 1994 "Great Elephant Quest" in Nepal, and reaching Everest Base Camp in 1999. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Ed Grebow – Former President and CEO of Amalgamated Bank, Deputy President of Sony Electronics, and Executive Vice President of CBS Inc. under Laurence Tisch. He worked with Warren Buffett, Richard Ravitch, and Larry Tisch to rescue The Bowery Savings Bank in 1985. At CBS, he won an Engineering Emmy Award and negotiated the purchase of the Ed Sullivan Theater for Late Show with David Letterman. After 9/11, he led efforts to restore New York City's broadcast infrastructure and secure antenna space on the Freedom Tower. He currently serves as Managing Director of Lakewood Advisors and has held board seats at Diamond Offshore Drilling and Alcentra Capital.
Richard Salomon – Rick Salomon is a Harvard Law School graduate, former partner at Mayer Brown, and founder and CEO of Vantage Point Consultants, which has advised over 400 Fortune 500 companies on legal management. He is a co-founder of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, where he worked for six years with the Japanese Consulate to obtain original visa documents from diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who rescued his father during the Holocaust. Salomon serves on the Advisory Board of the Renew Democracy Initiative, founded by Garry Kasparov, and is a Senior Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He is a trustee of The Common Good and a frequent speaker at institutions including the 92nd Street Y and Temple Emanu-El's Streicker Center.
David Robb – Managing Director of Frontier Group, a family office he co-founded with Frank Carlucci, Chairman Emeritus of The Carlyle Group and former U.S. Secretary of Defense. Early principal at The Carlyle Group, where he helped grow the firm from $150 million to over $100 billion in equity under management. Lead investor or co-founder of four unicorns including Embraer ($6B) and Landmark Aviation ($2B). Harvard MBA and Yale BA magna cum laude.
Diane Brady – Diane Brady is the Executive Editorial Director of Fortune Live Media and the Fortune CEO Initiative, where she convenes global business leaders, writes the CEO Daily newsletter, and hosts the Leadership Next podcast. A lifelong business journalist who has reported from every continent, she grew up in Scotland and Canada before launching her career in Nairobi and later covering aviation and travel for The Wall Street Journal from Hong Kong. Former Assistant Managing Editor at Forbes, where she oversaw C-suite coverage and created new event franchises, and held senior positions at Bloomberg BusinessWeek, where she won two National Magazine Awards, as well as at McKinsey & Co. and Canada's Maclean's.
At the luncheon, Mr. Levie warmly congratulated Mike Bloomberg and his partner, Diana Taylor, and greeted the following guests
Andrew Tisch – Co-Chairman of the Board of Loews Corporation; Chairman of the NYC Police Foundation. Former Vice Chairman of Cornell University's Board of Trustees; co-founder of the Student Leadership Network. Trustee of the Brookings Institution; past Chairman of the Economic Club of New York; author of Journeys: An American Story.
Mario Gabelli – Mario Gabelli is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of GAMCO Investors, which he established in 1977 and built into one of the world's largest investment institutions, pioneering the "Private Market Value with a Catalyst" methodology that defines his value investing approach. BA Fordham and MBA Columbia Business School. Morningstar's Domestic Equity Fund Manager of the Year (1997), Barron's All-Century Team (2000), and 2022 Horatio Alger Award Winner. His transformative gifts to Fordham—the largest in the university's history—led to the renaming of the Gabelli School of Business and funded its doctoral program. He serves on the boards of Boston College, Columbia Business School, and Roger Williams University, and is a trustee of the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States.
Dambisa Moyo – Zambian-born global economist, New York Times bestselling author, and member of the UK House of Lords (Baroness Moyo of Knightsbridge). Former economist at Goldman Sachs and consultant at the World Bank; author of Dead Aid, How the West Was Lost, and Winner Take All. Named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People. Serves on the boards of Chevron, Condé Nast, and National Geographic; PhD in economics from Oxford.
Pierre Dupont - Partner, Cerity Partners, and Two Sigma Investments—clean-energy, venture capital, and Chinese private equity; Board Member, International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR). Board Member, Pete duPont Freedom Foundation. Advisory Board, Center on Business and Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Management Committee, New York Hedge Fund Roundtable.
David Westin - Anchor of Bloomberg Wall Street Week and former President of ABC News (1997–2010), where he oversaw coverage of the Clinton impeachment, 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the 2008 financial crisis while leading the network into the digital age with ABCNews.com. Under his tenure, ABC News earned 11 George Foster Peabody Awards, 13 Alfred I. DuPont Awards, four George Polk Awards, and more than 40 News and Documentary Emmys. University of Michigan BA with honors in Philosophy, JD summa cum laude from Michigan Law School and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell. Before leading ABC News, he served as President of the ABC Television Network and General Counsel of Capital Cities/ABC, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington. He is the author of Exit Interview (2012), chronicling his years behind the scenes at ABC News.
Glenn Hutchins - Co-founder and former Co-CEO of Silver Lake Partners, the pioneering technology-focused private equity firm he helped launch in 1999, and Chairman of North Island, an investment firm he co-founded in 2020. He served as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2011 to 2020, chairing its Audit and Risk Committee, and was a member of the executive committee of the Boston Celtics from 2003 to 2025. A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School, he served in the Clinton White House as a senior advisor on economic and healthcare policy after working at The Blackstone Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners. Through the Hutchins Family Foundation, he established the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, where he serves as co-chair. He is Vice Chair of the Obama Foundation, Chair of CARE, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and serves on the boards of AT&T and Banco Santander.
Fr. Andrew Bushell - Orthodox Christian monk who serves as Executive Director of the St. Paul's Foundation and is building the Shrine of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with affiliated ventures including Marblehead Brewing Co. and Marblehead Salt Co. Before taking monastic vows, he founded and managed a $2.5 billion investment firm, worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co., and after 9/11 served as a war-zone journalist covering Afghanistan and Pakistan for The Economist.
Following the luncheon event, AIAC Chairman Levie issued the following statement:
"Today we honored a man who built an information and media empire with 20,000 employees, a philanthropic powerhouse that has donated over $21 billion, and somehow still found time to run the greatest city on earth for twelve years. Most of us can't even keep our inbox under control.
Mike's life is a masterclass in turning vision into reality—from shoveling snow and parking cars, to a pink slip at Salomon Brothers, all transformed into a $100 billion fortune dedicated to making the world smarter, healthier, and more informed. If that's not a Broadway story, I don't know what is.
Which brings me to my dear friend Michael Douglas, who brought his singular talent and generous spirit to our tribute today. Michael, you've played presidents, Wall Street titans, and superheroes—but presenting Bloomberg! The Musical with such heart and humor may be your finest role yet. I am deeply grateful.
My profound thanks also to my dear friends, the brilliant Osvald Bjellund and Lyndsay Howard, and the incomparable Isabel Carro Toro, whose artistry and dedication transformed a wild idea into a showstopper that brought 500 hardened financiers to their feet. That, my friends, is a miracle.
The standing ovation we witnessed today has led us to one inescapable conclusion: Broadway may very well need Bloomberg! The Musical. After all, we've had Hamilton, 1776, the Will Rogers Follies, and Yankee Doodle Dandy. Surely the man who is the most beloved and accomplished New York businessman, philanthropist, and mayor deserves his own long run on Broadway.
Mike has led a life of diligence, integrity, inspired leadership, and grand achievement of truly epic proportions. Bravo!”
About Mike Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg is the founder of Bloomberg LP, the global financial data and media company that revolutionized the investment industry. Born in Boston on February 14, 1942, and raised in a middle-class home in Medford, Massachusetts, he paid his way through Johns Hopkins University by taking out loans and working as a parking lot attendant, graduating with a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1964. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1966 and took an entry-level job at Salomon Brothers, where he rose through the ranks to become a partner, overseeing equity trading and sales before heading the firm's information systems. When Salomon was acquired in 1981, Bloomberg was let go—but his $10 million partnership buyout provided the capital to launch Innovative Market Systems, later renamed Bloomberg LP, which introduced the Bloomberg Terminal and transformed how financial information is distributed worldwide. Today, Bloomberg LP has more than 25,000 employees in 73 countries.
Bloomberg was elected the 108th Mayor of New York City in 2001, just weeks after the September 11 attacks, and served three consecutive terms through 2013. Under his leadership, the city staged one of the great comeback stories in American history: high school graduation rates rose 42 percent, crime fell by a third, the carbon footprint was reduced by 13 percent, and life expectancy increased by three years. His administration implemented pioneering public health initiatives—including the first indoor smoking ban adopted by a major American city, which became a national model—and launched innovative anti-poverty programs such as the Center for Economic Opportunity. Bloomberg spearheaded the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan, led massive re-zoning that spurred commercial and residential development across the city, and created a record 400,000 new jobs despite the Great Recession. He also served as chairman of the board and chief fundraiser for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, personally contributing $50 million and raising $450 million total.
Through Bloomberg Philanthropies, he has given away more than $21 billion, with $3.7 billion distributed in 2024 alone, employing a data-driven approach to its core focus areas: Public Health, Education, the Environment, Government Innovation, the Arts, and the Greenwood Initiative, which aims to accelerate wealth accumulation in Black communities. His $1.8 billion gift to his alma mater Johns Hopkins University—the largest ever to an educational institution—guarantees need-blind admissions in perpetuity, and the university's School of Public Health bears his name in recognition of his support. He has pledged to give away nearly all of his wealth during his lifetime.
Bloomberg serves as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Climate Ambition and Solutions and as the World Health Organization's Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries. He is co-founder of Everytown for Gun Safety, one of the nation's largest gun control advocacy organizations, and co-author with Carl Pope of the New York Times bestseller Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet. In 2020, he was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, and in 2024, President Biden awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. He is also a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles as part of a group led by David Rubenstein.
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About American Industrial Acquisition Corporation
American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC) is a diversified industrial group with manufacturing and distribution sites in 24 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia-New Zealand. AIAC has acquired and grown non-core subsidiaries and divisions of Boeing, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Johnson Controls, Merck, Pfizer, Astellas, Visteon, Carlyle, Ahlstrom, Tolko, Groupe Suez, Groupe Rexel, and many other leading multinational corporations.
AIAC companies serve companies and governmental entities worldwide in all major sectors, including aviation, space, defense, automotive, truck, rail, marine, petrochemical, solar, nuclear, food, confectionary, beverage, civil engineering and infrastructure, commercial construction, mining, dredging, disaster relief, education, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. In addition, AIAC companies are exclusive, authorized distributors of leading branded industrial and consumer products and serve as critical suppliers for the construction of major airports, schools, hospitals, performing arts and sports centers, offices and hotels throughout Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. AIAC is a leading manufacturer of building, street, and highway signage in Europe, and a distributor of electrical products throughout France.
Of note, AIAC purchased Boeing Canada in 2005 and has produced over 10,000 unique components for every Boeing jet plane ever since, reliably serving Boeing from manufacturing facilities in North America. A leader in ultra-high precision jet engine component manufacturing, AIAC companies produce 2,200 fan blades for each jet engine produced by GE, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, and Honeywell.
AIAC companies actively support exploration into outer space, manufacturing critical components for launching and propelling spacecraft and satellites. AIAC customers in this sector include NASA, the European Space Agency, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Boeing. research. AIAC affiliate, Champlain Cable Corporation, supported the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space missions with high performance wire and cable. AIAC companies also lead in the design and manufacture of undersea umbilical cables for worldwide oceanographic research.
AIAC companies produce the critical automotive wire and cable for Tesla, GM, Ford, Chrysler-Fiat, Toyota, and Nissan. In connection with its kraft paper manufacturing interests in Canada and the US, AIAC controls and sustainably manages 22 million acres of Manitoba, Canada forestland, an area equivalent in size to the nation of Hungary.
AIAC affiliate, Metallwarenfabrik Gemmingen GmbH, located in Germany, designs, manufactures and distributes high performance, emergency portable power generators utilized in global conflict zones and during natural disasters.
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About AIAC Philanthropy
AIAC and the AIAC Foundation support a wide range of nonprofit, nonsectarian, bipartisan organizations which promote international conflict resolution, disaster relief, economic development, environmental sustainability, exploration, and the performing arts.
The exploration-focused nonprofit organizations which they actively support include the Explorers Club, the National Geographic Society, the Royal Geographical Society, the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Air and Space Museum, the National Space Society, and the United States Space Foundation.
AIAC's other beneficiaries include the Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates Foundation Inc., the Asia Society, the Atlantic Council, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Gates Philanthropy Partners, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Carter Center, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Foreign Policy Association, the Institut Française des Relations Internationales, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Crisis Group, the International Rescue Committee, the Japan Society, the JFK School of Government of Harvard University, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the Sierra Club, the Trilateral Commission, and the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute.
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