John F. W. Rogers

John Francis William Rogers[1] (born April 15, 1956) is an American businessman, serving as Executive Vice President, Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Board of Goldman Sachs.[2]

John F. W. Rogers
John F. W. Rogers, 1983
Born
John Francis William Rogers

(1956-04-15) April 15, 1956
Seneca Falls, New York, United States
Alma materGeorge Washington University
OccupationBusinessman
Board member ofGoldman Sachs
Spouse(s)Deborah Lehr
Children2

Early life

Rogers was born in Seneca Falls, New York on April 15, 1956 where his father owned a wholesale frozen foods business and his mother was a dental hygienist. He is a graduate of the George Washington University.[3]

Career

Rogers has held numerous posts in U.S. government including research assistant for President Gerald Ford's director of communications David Gergen, assistant to President Ronald Reagan (at twenty-seven, the youngest person to receive that responsibility), and when Reagan's chief of staff James Baker became Secretary of the Treasury, he took Rogers with him to the Treasury where Rogers was the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1987. From 1991 to 1993, during George H. W. Bush's administration, he served as Under Secretary of State for Management.[3]

In 1994, Rogers joined Goldman Sachs in the Fixed Income Division and eventually became the Chief of Staff to CEOs Jon S. Corzine, Henry Paulson, Lloyd Blankfein, and David M. Solomon. He was made a partner in 2000,[4] and "has no revenue-generating responsibilities and strives to have virtually no public profile."[1] He is said to have been United States Treasury Secretary Paulson's closest advisor while at Goldman,[4] as well as a member of United States Secretary of State James Baker's inner circle.[3]

In 2011, CEO Lloyd Blankfein named Rogers one of the eleven executives of the firm.[3] As of 2019, he was executive vice president, chief of staff and secretary to the Board of Directors at Goldman as well as serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council, the American Atlanticist international affairs think tank.[5]

Personal life

Rogers owns a home on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. and is married to Deborah Lehr, with whom he has two children. Lehr, a journalist with Huffington Post,[6] was a former senior negotiator in the Clinton Administration on China trade policy.[7] In 2018, Rogers and Lehr attended President Trump's state dinner with President Emmanuel Macron of France.[8]

According to a 2006 profile in The New York Times, Rogers, who is interested in historic preservation, "does not welcome public scrutiny"[4] and hates being photographed.[1] His friends "compare him to the George Smiley character in John le Carré's spy novels. Mr. Rogers, a slight, retiring man with a preference for tan raincoats, brings the kind of technical staff expertise and, his friends say, the ability to gravitate toward the seat of power in bureaucracies that recall Le Carré's spymaster."[4]

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References
  1. Cohan, William D. (1 September 2011). "Meet John F. W. Rogers, Goldman's Quiet Power Player". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  2. "Board of Directors". Goldman Sachs. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  3. Roche, Julia La (September 4, 2011). "The Fabulous Life Of One Of The Scariest, Most Important People At Goldman Sachs". Business Insider. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  4. Thomas Jr., Landon (2 June 2006). "A Seamless Major Domo, on Wall St. or in Washington". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  5. Mitchell, Arego. "John F.W. Rogers". www.atlanticcouncil.org. Atlantic Council. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  6. Lehr, Deborah (17 December 2014). "Digging Out of Tourism Downfalls: Egypt's Archaeology Takes the Stage". Huffington Post.
  7. Guha, Krishna; Kirchgaessner, Stephanie (October 11, 2006). "Paulson appointee quits after three weeks". Financial Times. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  8. Times, The New York (24 April 2018). "Trump and Macron's State Dinner: The Guest List". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
Government offices
Preceded by
Ivan Selin		 Under Secretary of State for Management
October 9, 1991 – January 19, 1993		 Succeeded by
J. Brian Atwood
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