Corporate Governance
Board of Directors
Below is a summary of our committee structure and membership information. To read more about any of the committees, click on committee names in the chart below.
Chairperson
Member
Chairman of the Board
Co-Chairman
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Richard I. BeattieRichard I. Beattie
Director
Richard I. Beattie, director, is Senior Chairman of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where he 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. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Harley-Davidson, Inc., Heidrick & Struggles, the Carnegie Corporation and the National Women's Law Cent... |
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| Francois de St. PhalleFrancois de St. Phalle
Director
Francois de St. Phalle, director, has been a private equity investor, financial advisor and investment banker for more than thirty-five years. He was a consultant for Evercore from 2000 to 2002. From 1989 to 2000 he was Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman of Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. before it was merged into UBS. In this capacity he was responsible for managing some 700 employees and for the oversight of the firm's capital commitments in debt and equity markets. Previously, Mr. de St. Ph... |
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| Gail Block HarrisGail Block Harris
Director
Gail Harris, lead director, was a corporate partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP from 1984 to 1998, and has extensive experience in general corporate and securities work, joint ventures, partnerships, acquisitions and dispositions, and advising management and boards of directors. Ms. Harris also represented issuers and underwriters in public equity and debt transactions and in the development of new financial products. Ms. Harris is a director of CIGNA Life Insurance Company of New Yor... |
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| Curtis HesslerCurtis Hessler
Director
Curtis Hessler, director, has been a Lecturer at the UCLA School of Law since 2003. Mr. Hessler has held various CEO and board-level leadership positions in media and IT companies. In 1998, Mr. Hessler founded 101 Communications LLC, an IT media company, as CEO and served as the company's Chairman until its sale in 2006. From 1985 to 1991, he was Vice-Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Unisys Corporation; from 1991 to 1995, he was Executive Vice President of Times Mirror Company; he was ... |
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| | Robert B. MillardRobert B. Millard
Director
Robert B. Millard is Managing Partner of Realm Partners LLC. From 1976 until September 2008, Mr. Millard held various positions, including Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, Inc. and its predecessors. Mr. Millard also serves as the lead independent director of L-3 Communications Corporation and as a director of Gulfmark Offshore, Inc. He also served as a director of Weatherford International Inc. until February 2012. In addition, he serves on the board of trustees of the MIT Corporation (... |
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| | Anthony N. PritzkerAnthony N. Pritzker
Director
Anthony N. Pritzker, director, is a co-founder of The Pritzker Group where he has served as Managing Partner since January 2004.He has also served as Chairman of AmSafe Partners since September 2004. Mr. Pritzker has over twenty years experience leading middle-market manufacturing and distribution companies. From 2000 to 2004 he served as President of Baker Tanks, the nation's leading tank and pump equipment rental business. In 1998, he was appointed by the Marmon Group to oversee Stainless I... |
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Roger C. Altman
Roger C. Altman
Director
Roger Altman is Founder and Executive Chairman of Evercore Partners, which has become the most active independent bank in the United States.
Mr. Altman began his investment banking career at Lehman Brothers and became a general partner of that firm in 1974. Beginning in 1977, he served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for four years. He then returned to Lehman Brothers, later becoming co-head of overall investment banking, a member of the firm’s Management Committee and its Boar... |
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Pedro Aspe
Director
Pedro Aspe is Co-Chairman of the Board and Senior Managing Director.
Pedro Aspe founded Protego in 1996, and serves as Protego’s Chairman of the board of directors and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Aspe has been since 1995 a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México located in Mexico City. Mr. Aspe has held a number of positions with the Mexican government and was most recently the Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico from 1988 through 1994.
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| | | | Ralph SchlossteinRalph Schlosstein
Director
Ralph Schlosstein is President and Chief Executive Officer of Evercore Partners. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Schlosstein was the Chief Executive Officer of HighView Investment Group, an alternative investment management firm.
Prior to forming HighView in 2008, Mr. Schlosstein was for almost twenty years the President of BlackRock, the largest publicly traded asset management firm with over $3.3 trillion of assets under management. Mr. Schlosstein co-founded BlackRock ... |
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You can contact Evercore Partners's Board of Directors to provide comments, to report concerns, or to ask a question, at the following address.
Corporate Secretary
Evercore Partners
55 East 52nd Street
38th Floor
New York, NY 10055
United States
You may submit your concern anonymously or confidentially by postal mail. You may also indicate whether you are a shareholder, customer, supplier, or other interested party.
Communications are distributed to the Board, or to any individual Director as appropriate, depending on the facts and circumstances outlined in the communication. In that regard, the Evercore Partners Board of Directors has requested that certain items which are unrelated to the duties and responsibilities of the Board should be excluded, such as:
- Product complaints
- Product inquiries
- New product suggestions
- Resumes and other forms of job inquiries
- Surveys
- Business solicitations or advertisements
In addition, material that is unduly hostile, threatening, illegal or similarly unsuitable will be excluded, with the provision that any communication that is filtered out must be made available to any non-management director upon request.
