Alex Lyden

Alex Lyden is a partner at Evercore Wealth Management and serves as chief fiduciary officer and Trust Counsel at Evercore Trust Company, N.A. In addition, he is chair of the Personal Trust Advisory Committee, which establishes fiduciary policy for the personal trust business, and chair of the Fiduciary Oversight Group.

Prior to joining Evercore in May 2021, Mr. Lyden served as president of Christiana Trust Company of Delaware, a wholly owned subsidiary of WSFS Financial Corporation. Prior to joining Christiana Trust in 2015, he served as trust counsel to Commonwealth Trust Company and, earlier, practiced as an estate planning and tax attorney at several law firms in Pennsylvania.

Mr. Lyden earned a B.A. with distinction from Yale University, and both a J.D. and an LL.M. in taxation from the James E. Beasley School of Law at Temple University. He is co-chair of the Investment Entities Committee for the American Bar Association’s Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law Section. He also serves as chair of the Estates & Trusts Section of the Delaware Bar Association. He is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars and holds a Delaware Supreme Court Rule 55.1 Certificate as Authorized In-House Counsel.