Joseph and Judy Schocken’s Mercer
Island Mansion
This
modern mansion, 0.4 miles north of Paul
Allen’s (12/28/10
post for viewing guide) campus/compound, is 5,400 sq ft on 0.87 acres with 200
feet of waterfront and a private beach. An information and viewing guide for
the neighborhood is in a 2/27/12
“Cruising South Lake Washington” post.
President Obama selected Joseph
Schocken from Mercer
Island as an
advisor for the Administration’s JOBS Act signed into law last month. A 4/7/12
feature article in The Seattle Times
by Jon Talton has more information. Schocken attended the Rose Garden
bill-signing ceremony.
Back
in 2004 a 7/27/04
feature article in The Seattle Times
by David Postman highlighted Schocken’s rise to the Democratic Party’s elite. Joseph
and his wife, Judy, have raised millions of dollars for the Democratic Party.
This includes fundraisers at their beautiful Mercer Island waterfront mansion. They have personally donated
close to a million dollars over the years. They personally know the last three
Democratic presidential candidates and spent weekends on Nantucket with John and Teresa Heinz Kerry during the Edwards-Kerry campaign. He
is a member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and attends dinners with
the Committee’s high-level National Advisory Board. The Board has about 30
members that are at the highest level of the Party. The Schocken’s four
children are also political activists.
Joseph
is president and founder (1987) of Broadmark Capital, LLC, a prominent Seattle investment bank. The firm has raised more than $1
billion for investment in more than 75 (and growing) regional businesses. Most
of these are technology related and the investments can be for start-up or
secondary stages. Bennett Environment, Optiva and Universal Access are some of
the firm’s client companies. Joseph is on the boards of numerous companies.
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