Who We Are

John Weinberg is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Evercore, positions he has held since February 2022. Previously, he was Co-Chairman of the Board and Executive Chairman of Evercore.

Before joining Evercore in November 2016, Mr. Weinberg served as vice chairman of Goldman Sachs from 2006 to 2015 and as co-head of global investment banking from 2002 to 2015. He started at Goldman Sachs in 1983 as an associate and was promoted to partner in 1992.

Mr. Weinberg is a board member of Ford Motor Company, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Middlebury College and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

He earned a B.A. from Princeton University in 1979 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1983.

Roger Altman is founder and senior chairman of Evercore.

Mr. Altman began his investment banking career at Lehman Brothers, advancing to general partner in 1974. He was then nominated by President Carter and confirmed by the Senate as assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, serving in that position for four years.

Mr. Altman subsequently returned to Lehman, where he later became co-head of overall investment banking as well as a member of the management committee and board. He remained in those positions until Lehman was sold.

In 1987, Mr. Altman joined The Blackstone Group as vice chairman, head of advisory business, and investment committee member.

Mr. Altman was then nominated by President Clinton and again confirmed by the Senate as deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He served in that position for two years.

Then in 1995, he formed Evercore. Today, Evercore is the fourth-largest investment banking advisory firm in the world.

He is a trustee of MIT, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and New Visions for Public Schools and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

He earned an A.B. from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Richard I. Beattie is Senior Chairman of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, a position he has held since 2004. Mr. Beattie has been a partner of Simpson Thacher since 1977 and had served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of that firm from 1991 to 2004. Mr. Beattie specializes in counseling boards of directors and non-management directors on governance issues, investigations and litigation involving corporate officers and other crisis situations. He also specializes in mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts. Mr. Beattie also has a distinguished record of public service, including serving as General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare during President Carter’s administration and as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State for Reorganization Issues in 1997 during President Clinton’s administration. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Beattie served as President Clinton’s Emissary for Cyprus.

Mr. Beattie is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Overseers and Managers of Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center and the Board of Managers of Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases. Mr. Beattie is also a member of the board and founder of New Visions for Public Schools. Mr. Beattie joined Simpson Thacher in 1968 after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Prior to law school, he served four years in the Marine Corps as a jet pilot after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1961.

Pamela G. Carlton was appointed to our Board on October 22, 2019. After 22 years as an investment banker on Wall Street, Ms. Carlton launched Springboard – Partners in Cross Cultural Leadership, LLC where she has been President since 2003. In addition in 2014, Ms. Carlton co-founded The Everest Project research initiative focused on women leading change and innovation in corporate America. Ms. Carlton retired as a Managing Director and Associate Director of U.S. Equity Research at JPMorgan Chase in May 2003, having also served as Director of U.S. Equity Research for Chase Asset Management from 1996 to 1999. Prior to JPMorgan Chase, Ms. Carlton was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley for 14 years in corporate finance and capital markets. While at Morgan Stanley, she was also Co-Director of U.S. and Latin America Equity Research. Ms. Carlton began her career as a corporate attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

Ms. Carlton also serves on the following Boards: Columbia Threadneedle Investments mutual funds (which includes Tri-Continental Corporation and Columbia Seligman Premium Technology Growth closed-end funds) where she is the Chair of the Board; Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. where she chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee; DR Bank, where she is a member of the Audit Committee; and New York Presbyterian Hospital. Ms. Carlton is a member of the Women’s Forum of New York. She has served on the Board of Visitors of Yale School of Management, the Board of Visitors of Yale Law School, and the Board of Trustees of Williams College.

Ms. Carlton earned a B.A. from Williams College and was elected President of the Williams College Phi Beta Kappa Society. She earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and an MBA from Yale School of Management.

Ellen V. Futter served as the President of the American Museum of Natural History from November 1993 through March 15, 2023, when she was elected President Emerita. Previously, Ms. Futter served as the President of Barnard College and prior to that was a corporate attorney at the law firm of Milbank (formerly known as Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy). She also previously served as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Ms. Futter is a trustee of Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. and a director of Consolidated Edison, Inc., and is also a member of the board’s Executive Committee and its Safety Environment, Operations and Sustainability Committee. Ms. Futter is also a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, where she chairs the Nominations and Governance Committee and is a member of the board’s Executive Committee, a Governing Trustee at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where she serves as a member of the Joint Nominating and Governance Committee and a Trustee of the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School, and an ex officio Director of New York City Tourism and Conventions, where she serves as an ex officio member of its Executive Committee.

Ms. Futter graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Barnard College and earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Gail B. Harris is our Lead Director and serves as Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and as a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Harris was also on the Board of Seacor Holdings Inc., where she served on the Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and on the Board of Cigna Life Insurance Company of New York, where she was the Lead Director and Chair of the Outside Directors/Audit Committee. In addition, Ms. Harris serves on the boards of several private, companies.

Ms. Harris is the Chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council of Stanford Law School and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Harris previously served as a trustee on the Stanford University Board of Trustees, where she chaired the Special Committee on Investment Responsibility, and was a member of the Finance and Audit Committees. Ms. Harris is President Emeritus and a current member of the Board of New York Cares, the largest non-profit for volunteering in New York City. She began her legal career at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in 1977 and was a partner in the Corporate Department from 1984 to 1998. She was Of Counsel to Simpson Thacher through June 2011. Ms. Harris has extensive experience in advising boards of directors, and representing clients on general corporate and securities work, joint ventures, partnerships, acquisitions and dispositions.

Ms. Harris received an A.B. with distinction from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Robert B. Millard formerly served as Chairman of the MIT Corporation, and served on its Executive Committee, until October 2020. Mr. Millard was also formerly a member of the MIT Investment Management Company endowment board.

Prior to becoming Chairman of MIT, Mr. Millard served as the 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. Mr. Millard is the Lead Independent Director of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Compensation and Executive Committees of L-3 Communications Corporation. He also served as a director of Weatherford International Inc. until February 2012 and director of GulfMark Offshore Inc. until July 2013.

He is a current member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on its Finance and Budget Committee. Mr. Millard has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an S.B. from MIT.

Willard J. Overlock, Jr. retired in 1996 from a career in investment banking. Mr. Overlock is a trustee emeritus of Rockefeller University and a Special Partner at Cue Ball Capital. Until recently, Mr. Overlock served as a member of the Board of Directors of Becton, Dickinson and Company and 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, offering independent and trusted corporate finance advice to a limited number of major international companies, and has led the firm since its founding in 2005. Prior to founding his own firm, he was a Managing Director and President of Goldman Sachs Europe Limited from 1997 until he retired in 2005. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Sir Simon served various roles at the Kleinwort Benson Group. He joined the Kleinwort Benson Group in 1963, working in most of the businesses of the Kleinwort Benson Group before joining the Corporate Finance Division in 1968. He became Chairman of Kleinwort Benson Group Plc in 1996 and resigned from the Group in 1997.

Sir Simon is a director of several private companies, including Troy Asset Management Limited, Byhiras Group and

Immodulon Therapeutics. He has served on the boards of numerous public and private entities in the past, including as Chairman of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc (2005-2013), on the board of Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd (1998-2018), on the board of The Economist Newspaper Ltd. (2005-2017) and on the board of HSBC Holdings plc (2006-2016), where he was Senior Independent Director (2007-2015) and Deputy Chairman (2010-2016). In 2015 he joined the International Advisory Board of Brown Advisory, from which he retired in November 2021. He is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London (Department of Political Economy). He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of LOV Group Invest, an Ambassador of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and President of the Légion d’Honneur UK Chapter Limited from which he retired in January 2022. He is now Emeritus President of the Légion d’Honneur UK Chapter Limited. Sir Simon was knighted for services to Business in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2010. He also became an “Officier” of the “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” in 2011 and “Officier” de la Légion d’Honneur in 2014.

William J. Wheeler is a Vice Chairman of Athene Holding Ltd. Previously he served as President of Athene from 2015 to 2022.

Prior to joining Athene, Mr. Wheeler was President of the Americas group for MetLife Inc., where he oversaw the insurance and retirement business in the United States and Latin America. Previously, Mr. Wheeler had been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at MetLife. Prior to joining MetLife, Mr. Wheeler was an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. 

Mr. Wheeler has an A.B. from Wabash College, where he is now a member of the board of trustees, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He also serves on the boards of Venerable Holdings Inc. and the American Council of Life Insurers.

Sarah K. Williamson has served as the Chief Executive Officer of FCLTGlobal, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to encouraging long-term behaviors in business and investment decision making, since July 2016.

Ms. Williamson previously spent over 21 years at Wellington Management Company LLP, where she was most recently a Partner and Director of Alternative Investments. During her tenure at Wellington, Ms. Williamson served on a number of firm boards and committees, including on the Trust Investment Committee, as the Chair of the Wellington Trust Company NA, and as the founding chair of the Diversity Committee. 

Ms. Williamson received her B.A. in economics, with honors, from Williams College in 1984 and earned an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School in 1989.