Oral history interview with Alan K. Ruvelson

Titles: Oral history interview with Alan K. Ruvelson (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Alan K. Ruvelson was the founder (1959) and president of First Midwest Capital Corporation, one of the first venture capital companies in the U.S. and the nation’s first Small Business Investment Company. He served at various times as president of First Midwest Ventures, Inc., president of NASBIC (National Association of Small Business Investment Companies), president of Midwest RASBIC (Midwest Regional Association of Small Business Investment Companies), and chairman of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He died in 2009. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Leading venture capitalist; early beginning of venture capitalism; work as regional field advisor and chair of regional advisory group for Small Business Administration; Small Business Investment Company program, experiences working under the SBIC program; beginnings, early investments, organizational structure, and demise of First Midwest Capital Corporation; how companies were chosen to invest in; partnerships between venture capital companies; leadership of an early leveraged buyout.

Dates

• 07/12/1999 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Ruvelson, Alan K.
• interviewer: Hsu, David

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 68
• Accession Number: AV2000.9.1

Credit: Digitized with support from the Ken and Nina Rothchild Endowed Fund for Business History and Women's History.

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Quantity: 3 hours sound cassette 30 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 02:05:09 running time

Subjects

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