{{short description|American financier}} {{Infobox person | name = Russell S. Gould | image = | image_size = 200px | caption= | birth_name = | birth_place = | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley | occupation = investment banker | spouse = | children = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Russell S. Gould''' is an American financier, currently a partner at California Strategies, LLC.<ref name=calstrat>{{cite web|title=Russ Gould|url=http://calstrat.com/People/RussGould/tabid/162/Default.aspx|website=California Strategies, LLC|accessdate=12 September 2015|ref=Russ Gould at California Strategies, LLC|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906201436/http://www.calstrat.com/People/RussGould/tabid/162/Default.aspx|archivedate=6 September 2015}}</ref> He was a member of California Governor Pete Wilson's administration, as Secretary of Health and Human Services (1991 to 1993) and as the Director of Finance (1993 to 1996).<ref name=UC/><ref>Business Week, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120929001843/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=1341983&privcapId=20610746&previousCapId=345322&previousTitle=University%20of%20California Russel S. Gould]</ref>
In June 1998, then-California Governor Pete Wilson nominated Gould to serve on the University of California Board of Regents, knowing that his governorship would be coming to a close at the end of the year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-24-mn-63203-story.html|title=Wilson Names 2 Longtime Aides to UC Board of Regents|agency=Associated Press|date=24 June 1998|publisher=|via=LA Times}}</ref> The practice was to allow nominees to serve as regents with full voting powers as their nomination awaited confirmation by the California State Senate.<ref>Bazar, Emily (1998). [http://studentunitymovement.org/Davis_Prepares_to_Reshape_UC_Board.pdf Davis Prepares to Reshape UC Board — Appointments Could Prompt New Look at Old Controversies]. The Sacramento Bee (December 21, 1998), p. A1.</ref> In November 1998, Gray Davis was elected to the governorship of California. In January 1999, on his second day in office, Gov. Davis rescinded Gould's nomination and Gould was removed from serving on the Board.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-07-mn-61166-story.html|title=Davis Drops a Drove of Wilson Nominees|first=CARL|last=INGRAM|date=7 January 1999|publisher=|via=LA Times}}</ref>
In 2005, Gould was nominated to a 12-year term as University of California regent by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger<ref name=PR05>California State press release, [http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/1430/ Governor Schwarzenegger Appoints Two to the Regents of the University of California], 13 September 2005</ref> and the nomination was subsequently confirmed by the California State Senate.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}
Gould joined Metropolitan West Securities in 1996; it was taken over by Wachovia in 2006. Gould has been an Executive Vice President at the J. Paul Getty Trust,<ref name=UC>UC California, [http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regbios/gould.html Russell Gould]</ref> and was previously chief deputy director of the California Department of Finance (1983 - 1991).<ref name=PR05/>
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