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Boisi served as co-chair with the late Mickey Tarnopol, W’58 (see p. He is a director of Oxford Analytica, member of the Founders’ Circle of America’s Promise, and serves the Catholic Church as founder and chairman of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management (NLRCM). He has been honored by Pope John Paul II as a Steward of St. Peter. Prior to the formation of The Beacon Group, Mr.

Boisi was a senior general partner of Goldman Sachs & Co. where he served as a member of the firm’s management committee and head of the global investment banking business, which included worldwide mergers and acquisitions, real estate, corporate finance, capital markets, and principal investment activities.

geoff boisi biography

Boisi has served as chairman of the board of trustees, Boston College, co-chair of the University’s capital campaign, and chair emeritus of the Boston College Wall Street Council; chairman of the graduate executive board, the Wharton School, and co-chair of its capital campaign; a trustee of the Brookings Institution and a member of its investment committee, a member of the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress, a director of FADICA, trustee of the Papal Foundation; member of the international advisory board of Grupo Santander (Spain); member of the investment banking committee, American Stock Exchange; member of the board of directors of Freddie Mac; trustee, director, and member of the investment committee of the Park Agency, Inc.

(formerly Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises); member of the Trilateral Commission; director of Communities in Schools; and a trustee of Friends Academy.

Mr. He is also the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Sacred Heart University as well as the 2006 Lewis Hine Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service on behalf of children.

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65), vice chairman of the Investment Banking Division of Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc, on Wharton’s Campaign for Sustained Leadership, helping the School surpass its original $350 million campaign goal to raise $445.7 million. Boisi is co-founder of MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership. He is a trustee of the Saint Thomas More Chapel & Center at Yale University and a Knight of Malta.

Mr.

Boisi is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A.) and Boston College (B.A.).

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In 2002 JP Morgan Chase suffered heavy losses in Enron, Global Crossings, and other bad investments that preceded Boisi’s arrival.

He then became co-founder, chairman, and CEO of The Beacon Group, LLC, a private equity and advisory firm headquartered in New York City.

Boisi made a celebrated deal in 2000 when he sold Beacon for $500 million to Chase Manhattan Bank, which soon merged with J.P. Morgan & Co. Boisi served as vice chairman of investment banking for the new JP Morgan Chase, envisioning a world of giant business enterprises—“corporate city-states,” he called them—and reconfiguring the company as a combination investment and commercial bank that would serve them with a leaner, more productive staff.

Boisi currently serves on Wharton’s Board of Overseers.

Who is Geoffrey T. Boisi?

Mr. Boisi has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Wharton School’s Joseph Wharton Award, The Presidents Medal for Excellence from Boston College, Chaminade High School’s Distinguished Alumnus Award, the American Red Cross of Greater New York’s Humanitarian Award, the Cancer Research Institute’s Oliver R.

Grace Award for Distinguished Service in Advancing Cancer Research, and the National Catholic Educational Association’s Elizabeth Seton Award. The one-time wunderkind then shocked Wall Street with a sudden early retirement amid a management shake-up by Chairman and CEO William Harrison.

A bold and blunt-spoken leader, Boisi has thrown himself into charitable pursuits with characteristic vigor.

He and Tarnopol were both honored with Wharton Dean’s Medals in 2003. In addition, Mr. Boisi held numerous other positions during his 22 years at Goldman Sachs, including: chairman of strategic planning, co-chair of the international management committee, partner in charge of global finance, head of investment banking services, and partner in charge of mergers and acquisitions.

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Founded in 1989, MENTOR ranks as one of the top 100 charities in the U.S. and is leading the movement to connect America’s young people with caring adult mentors.

He is an overseer of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, serves Boston College as a trustee associate and founding sponsor of the Center for Religion and American Public Life, and serves Carnegie Corporation of New York as a trustee and chairman of the investment committee and member of the committee on compensation.

A Knight of Malta and devout Catholic, Boisi serves as trustee for the Papal Foundation and Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises. Boisi is a member of the board of directors of Freddie Mac serving on its governance, nominating and risk oversight committee, mission, sourcingtechnologycommittee as well as chairman of the compensation and humanresources committee.

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1948
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Education
  • MBA, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Bachelor of Arts, Boston College
Employment
  • Senior General Partner and General Manager, Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs
    ( - 1993)
  • Co-Chief Executive Officer, JPMorgan Chase
    (2000 - 2002)
  • Goldman Sachs
    (1971 - )
  • Senior Partner, Beacon Group
    (1993 - 2000)
  • Chief Executive Officer, Roundtable Investment Partners LLC
    (2008/01 - )
  • Senior Partner, Roundtable Investment Partners LLC
    (2005/03 - )

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Geoffrey T.

Boisi

Geoffrey T. Boisi is chairman and CEO of Roundtable Investment Partners LLC, an independent private investment partnership providing strategic advice and planning, investment management, and merchant banking services for families of substantial wealth as well as select institutions generating high performance wealth creation and social legacy-building opportunities.

In 2003, Mr.

Boisi retired as vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase, where he served as co-CEO of JPMorgan, the firm’s commercial and investment bank, and a member of JPMorgan Chase’s executive and management committees.

Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Boisi was founding chairman and senior partner of The Beacon Group, a premier merger and acquisition advisory and private investment firm, which was acquired by Chase.

Visionary Investment Banker: Geoffrey T. Boisi, WG’71

 

In 1978, only seven years after earning his Wharton MBA, Geoffrey Boisi became the youngest partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. As Management Committee partner, the young banker became responsible for the firm’s worldwide investment banking activities.

In addition, Boisi is a co-founder and chair of The National Mentoring Partnership and is a director of Communities in Schools.

Throughout his career, he has continued his service to Wharton.