Romney's California Money Team

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has announced the 27-person California fund-raising team for his 2008 presidential run. The list includes a few heavy hitters, including eBay CEO Meg Whitman and Robert Day, chairman of the Trust Company of the West, a private money-management firm. Day was a President Bush fund-raising "pioneer" and is estimated to be worth about $700 million.

The Romney team also includes Brad Freeman, who formed an investment company with former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan in 1983 - Freeman Spogli & Company. Freeman, too, has been major fund-raiser and confidant to the Republican president, who has been an occasional overnight guest at Freeman's Brentwood mansion. After Bush moved into the White House, the president gave his cat, Ernie, to Freeman.

Full list after the jump.

(Photo: Chitose Suzuki / AP. Romney poses in mimicry of a poster of himself as "Austin Powers" and "Mini Me" during a St. Patrick's Day breakfast in Boston in 2005. It was a joke about Romney's opposition to therapeutic stem cell research.)

Gov. Romney's California Finance Co-Chairs:

• Scott Baugh, Chairman, Orange County Republican Party, Orange County
• Dick Boyce, Partner, Texas Pacific Group, San Francisco
• David Bradford, CEO, OWNLI, Orange County
• Jonathan Bullen, CEO/President, Eagle State College Group, San Diego
• Malin Burnham, Chairman, Burnham Real Estate, San Diego
• Kelly Burt, Chairman and CEO, Price Self Storage, San Diego
• Roger Carter, Investments, Morgan Stanley, San Francisco
• Rick J. Caruso, President and CEO, Caruso Affiliated, Los Angeles
• Mark Chapin Johnson, President and CEO, Chapin Medical Company, Orange County
• John Clarey, Chairman, RF Comsites, Orange County
• Robert Day, Chairman, Trust Company of the West, Los Angeles
• Bill Draper, General Partner, Draper Richards L.P., San Francisco
• Steven Fink, CEO, Lawrence Investments, Los Angeles
• Bradford M. Freeman, Founder, Freeman Spogli & Company, Los Angeles
• Sam Ginn, Director, Chevron Corporation, San Francisco
• Howard Leach, Former Ambassador to France, San Francisco
• Hadi Makarechian, Founder, Chairman of the Board, CEO and President, Capital Pacific Holdings, Inc., Orange County
• Papa Doug Manchester, Chairman, Manchester Financial Group, San Diego
• David Parker, Managing Partner and Principal, SRS Capital Partners, Orange County
• Matt Romney, Vice President, Excel, San Diego
• Kenneth R. Satterlee, CEO/President, St. Croix Capital Corp./Kelly Capital, San Diego
• Boyd Smith, Partner, WSJ Properties, San Francisco
• Peter Starrett, President, Peter Starrett Associates, Los Angeles
• Tom Stephenson, Sequoia Capital, San Francisco
• Thomas Tellefsen, Tellefsen Investments, Los Angeles (Romney National Finance Co-Chair)
• Meg Whitman, CEO, eBay, San Francisco (Romney National Finance Co-Chair)
• Doug Wilson, CEO, Next Solutions, Inc., Orange County