Evercore Inc. leadership
Snapshot
Evercore Inc.'s leadership comprises 11 directors and 3 named executive officers. Names, tenure and backgrounds are sourced from the latest SEC proxy statement (DEF 14A).
- Board size
- 11
- Source
- Proxy statement
Board & leadership
John S. Weinberg has served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Evercore since February 25, 2022, having previously been Co-Chairman and Co-CEO from July 2020 and Chairman and Executive Chairman from November 2016 until July 2020. Prior to joining Evercore he was Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs Group from 2006 to 2015, Co-Head of Global Investment Banking from 2002 to 2015, and a member of its Management Committee; he joined Goldman Sachs in 1983 and was made Partner in 1992. He is a board member of Ford Motor Company, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He holds a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Roger C. Altman is Founder and Senior Chairman of Evercore, which he formed in 1995. He began his investment banking career at Lehman Brothers, becoming general partner in 1974 and later co-head of overall investment banking and a member of the management committee and board, and also served as a vice chairman of The Blackstone Group from 1987. He was twice confirmed by the Senate to U.S. Treasury posts, as Assistant Secretary under President Carter and as Deputy Secretary under President Clinton. He is a trustee of MIT, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and New Visions for Public Schools, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds an A.B. from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Pamela G. Carlton has been President of Springboard - Partners in Cross Cultural Leadership LLC, a research and consulting firm, since 2003, following a 22-year Wall Street investment banking career. She retired as a Managing Director and Associate Director of U.S. Equity Research at JPMorgan Chase in 2003 and previously spent 14 years as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, beginning her career as a corporate attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. She serves on the boards of the Columbia Mutual Fund complex, Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc., DR Bank, and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She earned a B.A. from Williams College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management.
Ellen V. Futter is president of the Markle Foundation and previously served as President of the American Museum of Natural History from 1993 until 2023, when she was elected President Emerita. She earlier served as President of Barnard College and as a corporate attorney at Milbank LLP, and was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, a Governing Trustee at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and a Trustee of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She graduated from Barnard College and earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School.
Gail B. Harris is Evercore's Lead Director, Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and a member of the Audit Committee. She began her legal career at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in 1977, was a partner in the Corporate Department from 1984 to 1998, and was Of Counsel through June 2011, with extensive experience advising on corporate, securities, joint ventures, and M&A matters. She previously served on the boards of Seacor Holdings Inc. and Cigna Life Insurance Company of New York, and chairs the Dean's Advisory Council of Stanford Law School. She received an A.B. with distinction and a J.D. from Stanford University.
Robert B. Millard formerly served as Chairman of the MIT Corporation and on its Executive Committee until October 2020, and was a member of the MIT Investment Management Company endowment board. He was Chairman of Realm Partners LLC from 2009 to 2014 and held various senior roles, including Managing Director, at Lehman Brothers and its predecessors from 1976 to 2008. He sits on the boards of iHeartMedia, Inc. and L3Harris Technologies, where he was lead independent director until April 2025. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an S.B. from MIT.
Willard J. Overlock, Jr. retired in 1996 from a career in investment banking. He is a trustee emeritus of Rockefeller University and a Special Partner at Cue Ball Capital, and previously served on the Board of Directors of Becton, Dickinson and Company and as chairman of The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina.
Sir Simon M. Robertson founded Simon Robertson Associates LLP in 2005, providing corporate finance advice to major international companies. He was a Managing Director and President of Goldman Sachs Europe Limited from 1997 until 2005, and earlier spent decades at the Kleinwort Benson Group, becoming its Chairman in 1996. He has served on numerous boards, including as Chairman of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (2005-2013) and as Senior Independent Director and Deputy Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc. He was knighted for services to Business in 2010.
Christine A. Varney served as Chair of the Antitrust Practice of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP from 2011 until her retirement in December 2025. She previously served as Assistant Attorney General heading the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, and as Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet in the Clinton administration. She received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany, an M.P.A. from Syracuse University, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
William J. Wheeler previously served as Vice Chairman and President of Athene Holding Ltd. Prior to Athene he was President of the Americas group for MetLife Inc., overseeing the U.S. and Latin America insurance and retirement business, and earlier was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at MetLife; he began as an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He serves on the board of Ethos Technologies and is chairman of the board of trustees of Wabash College. He holds an A.B. from Wabash College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Sarah K. Williamson is Chief Executive Officer of FCLTGlobal, a not-for-profit focused on long-term capital for a sustainable economy. She previously spent over 20 years with Wellington Management, including as a Partner and Director of Alternative Investments, and earlier was a senior engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, a special assistant at the U.S. Department of State, and a Goldman Sachs M&A investment banker. She serves as a director of EXL Service (NASDAQ: EXLS) and chair of the board of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. She holds a B.A. in economics from Williams College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Jason Klurfeld is General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, responsible for Evercore's legal and compliance functions, and is a member of the Firm's Management Committee. Before joining Evercore in June 2011, he was a corporate and transactional attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP from 2006 to 2011 and at Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP from 2004 to 2006, and earlier served as an aide to New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He earned a B.A. from Hamilton College, a Masters in History from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Timothy LaLonde is Chief Financial Officer, responsible for Evercore's financial, tax, internal audit, corporate strategy, information technology, investor relations, and real estate functions, and is a member of the Firm's Management Committee. He has more than three decades of investment banking experience and previously served as Evercore's COO of Global Investment Banking and co-head of the U.S. Investment Banking business; before Evercore he was an executive director at UBS and a vice president at Dillon Read. He received his B.S.B. from the University of Minnesota, his M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and his M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.
Matthew Lindsey-Clark is co-head of Evercore's EMEA Investment Banking business, a senior managing director, and a member of the Firm's Management Committee. He has over 40 years of investment banking experience and specialized in advising financial services companies, joining Evercore in August 2011 upon the acquisition of Lexicon Partners, which he had joined in 2001. He was previously a managing director in the European financial institutions group at Credit Suisse First Boston and earlier was with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in London and NatWest Markets. He holds a first-class degree in classics from Oxford University.