Biography

Mr. Jeffery served as President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of Rockefeller & Co. from 2010 to 2018; previously, he served seven years in the U.S. government in a variety of positions, including as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs and Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Prior to that, Mr. Jeffery spent two decades. at Goldman Sachs & Co., becoming Managing Partner of the Goldman Sachs European Financial Institutions Group in 1992, and then Managing Partner of the Goldman Sachs Paris office in 1997. He began his career as a corporate attorney with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. Currently, Mr. Jeffery serves as an independent director and chairman of the board of SMBC Americas Holdings, Inc. and as a board member of PartnerRe Ltd. He received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. and J.D. from Stanford University.