Archives: Team Members

BRIAN MOYNIHAN leads a team of more than 210,000 employees dedicated to making financial lives better for people, companies of every size, and institutional investors across the United States and around the world.

Under his direction, Bank of America continues to be recognized as a leader in financial services. In 2025, the company was named one of TIME Magazine’s World’s Best Companies and appeared on PEOPLE’S 2025 100 Companies that Care list. Bank of America also appears on Forbes magazine’s list for World’s Best Employers, Fortune magazine’s lists of World’s Most Admired Companies and Best Companies to Work For and LinkedIn’s Top 50 Companies in the U.S. list.

Moynihan participates in several organizations that focus on economic and market trends, including the Business Roundtable, the Financial Services Forum, the Bank Policy Institute, The Clearing House Association (chair), the American Heart Association CEO Roundtable (co-chair), the Catalyst Board of Directors, the Business Council, and the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council. He also is chair of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, which was founded by His Majesty King Charles III, then The Prince of Wales, in 2020.

Moynihan serves as a member of the advisory council for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Appeal of Conscience Board of Trustees. He also works with public officials, businesses and civic leaders at the local level through his participation on the Charlotte Executive Leadership Council, the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership and the Partnership for Rhode Island.

In addition, Moynihan is the chancellor of the Corporation of Brown University, a volunteer role that leads the 54-member Brown Corporation. Prior to that, he was a member of the Brown University Corporation’s Board of Fellows for eight years after having served on the Board of Trustees from 2010 to 2016.

MITCHELL E. DANIELS, JR. served as a two-term governor of Indiana from 2005-13 and as Purdue’s 12th president from 2013-22. He subsequently served as board chair of the Purdue Research Foundation before returning as the university’s interim president in 2026.

Daniels was elected governor in his first bid for elected office, and then re-elected with more votes than any candidate in the state’s history. During his tenure, Indiana went from an $800 million deficit to its first AAA credit rating, led the nation in infrastructure building, and passed sweeping education, healthcare, and economic reforms.

With Daniels as president, Purdue became the nation’s No. 1 most recognized public university. He prioritized student affordability and reinvestment in the university’s strengths. He ended 36 years of consecutive tuition hikes by freezing tuition and mandatory fees at 2012 levels. The hold on rates continued throughout his presidency and will continue at least through the 2026- 27 academic year. Overall, aggregate student borrowing fell 37%, and Purdue cost less to attend at the conclusion of his service than at the start.

Daniels was named among the Top 50 Greatest World Leaders by Fortune Magazine in 2015 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.

Prior to becoming governor, Daniels served as chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, senior advisor to President Ronald Reagan, and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush. He also was CEO of the Hudson Institute and president of Eli Lilly’s North American pharmaceutical operations.

Daniels earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton and a law degree from Georgetown. He is the author of four books and a Washington Post contributing columnist.

He and his wife, Cheri, have four daughters and seven grandchildren.

RAY DALIO, a global macro investor for more than 50 years, founded Bridgewater Associates out of his two-bedroom apartment in NYC and ran it for most of its 50 years, building it into the largest hedge fund in the world under his leadership. He is now in a stage of life in which he wants to pass along and help people learn about principles that have helped him, especially in markets and the economy. He is a long-running New York Times bestselling author of Principles: Life and Work, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle, and Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises. He graduated with a B.S. in Finance from C.W. Post College in 1971 and received an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1973. He has been married to his wife, Barbara, for 46 years and has three grown sons and eight grandchildren. He is an active philanthropist.

 

DAVID COTE is the Executive Chairman of Vertiv Holdings (NYSE: VRT), of Resolute Holdings (NYSE: RHLD), and of GPGI (NYSE: GPGI); International best-selling business book author of Winning Now, Winning Later and How To Be A Leader; and former Chairman and CEO of Honeywell. He was elected president, CEO, and a member of Honeywell’s Board in February 2002, and named chairman of the Board on July 1, 2002. He retired as CEO in 2017 and as Chairman 2018. In 2018, Cote launched a Spac (GSAH) with his partner Goldman Sachs, before it later combined with Vertiv in 2020. In 2024, Cote’s Family acquired majority interest in CompoSecure, Inc. (NYSE: CMPO) and was appointed Executive Chairman. CMPO then spun off a management company called Resolute Holdings. This was followed in January 2026 by CompoSecure Inc.’s acquisition of Husky Technologies Limited. CompoSecure, Inc. has been renamed GPGI (NYSE: GPGI) and is managed by Resolute Holdings Management, Inc.

Cote was elected to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2014 and continued through 2018, as a Class B director to represent the interests of the public. From 2012 to 2013, Cote served as a founding member of the steering committee of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. Cote was named Vice Chair of the Business Roundtable in 2011 and chaired its Energy and Environment Committee. In 2010, Cote was named by President Barack Obama to serve on the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Simpson-Bowles Commission). Cote was named Co-Chair of U.S. India Forum in 2009 and was a member of the Forum since 2005. Cote holds a number of awards, including the Horatio Alger Award, the Australian Association’s Award for Excellence, and the Asia Society’s Global Leadership Award. He was named CEO of the Year from Chief Executive Magazine for 2013 as well as one of Barron’s Top 30 CEOs globally for five consecutive years. Cote also received the Peter G. Peterson Award for Business Statesmanship from the Committee for Economic Development in 2012, and the Distinguished Achievement Award from B’nai B’rith International in 2011.

Cote earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1976 and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of New Hampshire in 2011. He was also named Honorary Professor from Beihang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and received an Honorary Degree from the Graziadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University.

JOSHUA BOLTEN is CEO of Business Roundtable, an association of more than 200 CEOs of America’s leading companies. Bolten’s twenty years of government service includes eight years in the White House under President George W. Bush as Chief of Staff (2006-09), Director of the Office of Management & Budget (2003-06), and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy (2001-03). For the preceding two years, he was Policy Director of the Bush 2000 presidential campaign. Bolten’s previous private sector experience includes work at Goldman Sachs in London and O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, DC. Bolten received his undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1976 and his law degree from Stanford in 1980. He is a member of the boards of Emerson Electric Co., the ONE Campaign, Princeton University, and the Aspen Institute.

ROBERT B. ZOELLICK is Chairman, Americas, of Temasek, Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (after serving on the Temasek board for 10 years) and Senior Fellow and former Adjunct Professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. In addition, Zoellick serves on the board of Robinhood Markets, chairs the International Advisory Council of Standard Chartered Bank, and is a member of the Strategic Council of Swiss Re. He is a member of the boards of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the Carnegie Endowment; and chairs the Global Tiger Initiative.

Zoellick was the President of the World Bank Group from 2007-12, U.S. Trade Representative from 2001 to 2005, and Deputy Secretary of State from 2005 to 2006. From 1985 to 1993, Zoellick served as Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury and Under Secretary of State, as well as White House Deputy Chief of Staff. He published, “America in the World : A History of US Diplomacy and Foreign Policy” in 2020. His book has been translated into Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Georgian. He is currently working on a book about the world economy.

TOM WILSON is the chair, president, and CEO of The Allstate Corporation. He has been CEO since 2007 and became chair of The Allstate Corporation’s board of directors in 2008. He has held key leadership positions in all major operating units at the company since 1995. Wilson has led Allstate through the global financial crisis and increased severe weather due to climate change. He is now leading an innovative multi-year Transformative Growth strategy at the company. Wilson holds active leadership positions in the financial services industry and the community. He regularly offers insight on the role of business in society, and he has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on CNN.com.

ROBERT K. STEEL has more than 40 years of experience. Prior to joining Perella Weinberg Partners in May of 2014, Mr. Steel was New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development where he was responsible for the Bloomberg Administration’s five-borough economic development strategy, job-creation efforts, and also led the applied sciences initiative, which established the Cornell-Technion campus on Roosevelt Island, New York University Center for Urban Science, and Progress Initiative in Brooklyn, New York.

He was previously president and CEO of Wachovia Corporation, where he oversaw the sale of the bank to Wells Fargo & Co. and served on the Wells Fargo board of directors until 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Steel was Under Secretary for Domestic Finance of the United States Treasury, where he revived the President’s Working Group, the core group to respond to the global economic crisis of 2008. He managed the Department’s Blueprint for Modernized Regulatory Structure, which recommended several of the reforms since pursued by the Obama administration.

Mr. Steel spent nearly 30 years at Goldman Sachs, rising to Head of the Global Equities Division, Vice Chairman of the firm, and a member of its Management Committee. He also was a member of the board of directors of Barclays from 2005 to 2006.

He is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Mr. Steel is Chairman Emeritus of the Aspen Institute’s Board of Trustees and has served as Chairman of Duke’s Board of Trustees, Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a member of the FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion.

Currently, Mr. Steel serves on the board of Perella Weinberg Partners, Bloomberg Inc., General Dynamics, Economic Club of New York, Union Square Hospitality Group, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Hospital for Special Surgery, Aspen Institute, Rockefeller University, The Morgan Library & Museum, and is a member of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group and the Partnership for New York City.

ROBERT E. RUBIN served as the 70th United States Treasury Secretary from 1995 to 1999, after serving as the first director of the White House National Economic Council. In these roles, he helped achieve the first federal budget surplus in a generation, address international financial crises, and resolve a debt-ceiling standoff, among much else.

Rubin is the author of In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, a New York Times bestseller, and The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World. He spent twenty-six years at Goldman Sachs, rising to co-senior partner, and was a senior counselor and board member at Citigroup. He currently serves as senior counselor to the independent investment advisory firm Centerview Partners, as co-chairman emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, and as chair of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation.

Rubin is a founder of The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, which promotes broad- based economic growth. A former member of the Harvard Corporation, he graduated from Harvard summa cum laude and from Yale Law School.