Jefferies CEO and leadership

Q: Who is the CEO of Jefferies?

The CEO of Jefferies is Richard Brian Handler.

Q: Who is the founder of Jefferies?

Maryanne Gilmartin and Thomas Wade Jones founded Jefferies.

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Jefferies CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Richard Brian Handler is the Jefferies's CEO. Jefferies has 2,885 employees, of which 43 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The Jefferies executive team is 23% female and 77% male.
60% of the management team is White.
12% of Jefferies management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Richard Brian Handler

CEO

Richard Brian Handler is a Chairman & CEO at Jefferies Group.

Maryanne Gilmartin

Board Member

Thomas Wade Jones

Board Member

Brian P. Friedman

Chairman

Joseph S. Steinberg

Board Member

Michael T. O'Kane

Board Member

Barry J. Alperin

Board Member

Jacob M. Katz

Board Member

Robert D. Beyer

Board Member

Daniel Duval

Board Member

Corporate legal executive with 18+ years of experience advising financial services clients, including 12+ years of senior management experience as department head for a leading international leveraged finance and asset management business that has grown consistently across multiple market cycles. Demonstrated track record as a proactive, pragmatic, solutions-oriented business partner who makes creative strategic and tactical contributions on complex, multidisciplinary legal, regulatory and business issues. Proven leader of high performing teams, with strong capabilities in investment banking, leveraged finance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate governance, investment funds, enterprise risk management, sales and trading, technology licensing, data privacy, employment, litigation, and regulatory compliance programs.

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Jefferies founders

Name & TitleBio

Maryanne Gilmartin

Board Member

Thomas Wade Jones

Board Member

Jefferies board members

Name & TitleBio

Richard Brian Handler

CEO

Richard Brian Handler is a Chairman & CEO at Jefferies Group.

Maryanne Gilmartin

Board Member

Thomas Wade Jones

Board Member

Brian P. Friedman

Chairman

Joseph S. Steinberg

Board Member

Michael T. O'Kane

Board Member

Barry J. Alperin

Board Member

Jacob M. Katz

Board Member

Robert D. Beyer

Board Member

Daniel Duval

Board Member

Jefferies leadership demographics

Jefferies gender distribution in management team

The Jefferies executive team is 23% female and 77% male.
Jefferies is 31% female and 69% male company-wide.

Male

77%

Company-wide: 69%

Female

23%

Company-wide: 31%

Jefferies executives by race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among Jefferies executive officers is White.
60% of the management team is White.
12% of Jefferies's management is Hispanic or Latino.
12% of the management team is Asian.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
50% of employees are White.
19% of employees are Asian.
17% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.

Management team
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What employees say about the executives at Jefferies

Employee reviews

2.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Jul 2020

Pros of working at Jefferies

The base comp and bonus were very fair.

Cons of working at Jefferies

The benefits were continuously being cut. The culture is very cut throat and old school management. Technology lags as well. Poor leadership

Jefferies benefits

the money

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Updated November 18, 2022

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