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Gregory J. Fleming (born 1963) is an American business executive and investment banker.[1] Currently, the CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management,[2] Fleming is also a lecturer at Yale Law School in ethics and financial markets.[1] He previously served as president and chief operating officer at Merrill Lynch, where he led several major mergers and acquisitions deals in the 2000s,[3] including the $50 billion sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America.[4] In 2010 he became president of Morgan Stanley Investment Management,[2] then became president of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in 2011.[5] He was named the founding president and CEO of Rockefeller Capital in 2017,[6] and is also a member of the trustee advisory board at Millennium Management, LLC.[7]
Greg Fleming | |
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| Born | Gregory James Fleming 1963 (age 60–61) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Colgate University |
| Alma mater | Yale Law School[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Businessperson, investment banker, professor |
| Years active | 1988-present |
| Employer | Rockefeller Capital Management (CEO) |
| Website | Biography at Rockefeller Capital Mgmt |
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Born in 1963,[8] Fleming grew up in Hopewell Junction, New York; both of his parents were school teachers.[3] In 1985[9] earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University in economics, summa cum laude.[10] He received a J.D. from Yale Law School[11] in 1988.[12]
In 1988, Fleming joined the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton as a consultant,[12] later becoming a principal.[13] Fleming was hired by Merrill Lynch in 1992,[14] and was initially tasked with restructuring the firm's municipal bond division.[15] He advised on BlackRock's initial public offering in 1999, and was subsequently promoted to head Merrill Lynch's U.S. financial institutions group.[16] In 2003, he became of head the company's global investment banking, and then co-president of the capital markets unit.[14] In those roles, Fleming oversaw the merger of Merrill Lynch Investment Management and BlackRock in 2006.[17] In May 2007, Fleming and Ahmass Fakahany were named co-presidents of Merrill Lynch.[18] In June 2008, Fleming became chief operating officer.[19] After the Bank of America merger was completed in January 2009,[20] Fleming resigned from Merrill Lynch to teach at Yale University,[21] becoming a senior research scholar and lecturer in law.[8]
In 2010[2] Fleming became president of Morgan Stanley Investment Management,[20] also joining its operating committee.[16] In 2011 he became president of global wealth management.[5] Fleming resigned from Morgan Stanley in January 2016,[19] continuing to lecture at Yale.[2] Fleming joined the board of Putnam Investments in August 2016.[22] That year, he assisted Anthony Scaramucci with selling SkyBridge Capital,[23] and in 2017 represented Derek Jeter on the consortium purchase of the Miami Marlins.[1] In 2017, Fleming was announced as the founding CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management, while also taking an ownership stake.[6]
Fleming has been quoted in the press on the number of market-related issues, and in 2022, Fortune described Fleming as a long-time advocate of increasing H1B visas to increase labor availability for specialized jobs in the US market.[24] In September 2022, the Financial Times credited Fleming with greatly increasing Rockefeller Capital Management's presence and asset holdings in US cities.[25] In April 2023, Bloomberg cited Fleming stating the firm had received a significant investment from the Demarais family, with plans to use the funds for expansion.[26] Fleming is also a member of the trustee advisory board at Millennium Management, LLC.[7]
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He and his wife Melissa together have three children.[10]
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