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Over 180 Business Leaders Speak Out Against the Attempted Assassination of a President

July 15, 2024

The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is reprehensible and should be a wake-up call for all Americans. We call upon our fellow Americans to reject violence in all its forms and to uphold basic standards of civility and respect for our differences in the political arena and beyond. We express profound sympathy for all the innocent victims of this tragedy.

William D. Abramson, Principal, Buchbinder & Warren Realty Group LLC

Pranay Agrawal, Co-Founder & CEO, Fractal Analytics Inc.

Simon Allen, Chief Executive Officer, McGraw Hill

Antonio Alvarez III, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal

Jeffrey H. Aronson, Co-Founder & Managing Principal, Centerbridge Partners

Glenn R. August, Founder & CEO, Oak Hill Advisors L.P.

Neil Barr, Chair & Managing Partner, Davis Polk

Albert Behler, Chairman, President & CEO, Paramount Group, Inc.

Candace K. Beinecke, Senior Counsel, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Charles R. Bendit, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Taconic Investment Partners LLC

William H. Berkman, Managing Partner, Berkman Family Investments, LLC

Gary A. Binning, Founding Managing Partner, Dominus Capital, L.P.

Frank J. Bisignano, Chairman, President & CEO, Fiserv

Jeff T. Blau, Chief Executive Officer, The Related Companies, L.P.

Kathy Bloomgarden, Chief Executive Officer, Ruder Finn, Inc.

Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa, Co-Founders & Co-CEOs, Warby Parker

John Borthwick, Founder & CEO, Betaworks

Albert Bourla, Chairman & CEO, Pfizer Inc.

Tory Burch, Chairman, CEO & Designer, Tory Burch LLC

Gregory C. Case, Chief Executive Officer, Aon plc

Tim Cawley, Chairman, President & CEO, Con Edison

Marc Cooper, Chief Executive Officer, Solomon Partners

Cromwell Coulson,President & CEO, OTC Markets Group

Joanne Crevoiserat, Chief Executive Officer, Tapestry, Inc.

Vijay Dandapani, President & CEO, The Hotel Association of New York City, Inc.

Jean-Luc Decaux and Alan Sullivan, Co-Chief Executive Officers, JCDecaux North America

Todd C. DeGarmo, CEO Emeritus, Principal, STUDIOS Architecture

Annemarie DiCola, Chief Executive Officer, Trepp, Inc.

John Q. Doyle, President & CEO, Marsh McLennan

John Ehrenkranz, Partner, Ehrenkranz Partners L.P.

Douglas F. Eisenberg, Executive Chairman & Co-Founder, A&E Real Estate, LLC

Catherine Engelbert, Commissioner, WNBA

Steven Epstein, Managing Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Onur Erzan, Head of Global Client Group & Head of Private Wealth, AB

Sean Feeney, Co-Founder, Grovehouse Hospitality

Laurence D. Fink, Chairman & CEO, BlackRock

Peter Finn, Chief Executive Officer, Finn Partners

John F. Fish, Chairman & CEO, Suffolk

Winston C. Fisher, Partner, Fisher Brothers

Alan H. Fishman, Founder, Willow Holdings, Inc.

Adam Flatto, President & CEO, The Georgetown Company

William E. Ford, Chairman & CEO, General Atlantic LLC

Bethlam Forsa, Chief Executive Officer, Savvas Learning Company

Jane Fraser, Chief Executive Officer, Citi

Peter Furci, Presiding Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Joanna Geraghty, Chief Executive Officer, JetBlue Airways Corporation

Michael Gerstenzang, Managing Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Eric Gertler, Executive Chairman & CEO, U.S. News & World Report

Timothy Gokey, Chief Executive Officer, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

Jeffrey Goldberg, Chief Executive Officer, Fairstead

Perry Golkin, Chief Executive Officer, PPC Enterprises LLC

Barry M. Gosin, Chief Executive Officer, Newmark

Evan G. Greenberg, Chairman & CEO, Chubb

Efraim Grinberg, Chairman & CEO, Movado Group, Inc.

Stewart KP Gross, Managing Director, Lightyear Capital

Chris Grosso, Chief Executive Officer, Intersection

Richard Haworth, Chief Executive Officer, Barclays Americas

Matthew Hiltzik, President & CEO, Hiltzik Strategies, LLC

Leslie W. Himmel, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Himmel + Meringoff Properties LLC

Jerry Jacobs Jr., Chief Executive Officer, Delaware North Companies, Inc.

Kenneth M. Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Lazard

Julie H. Jones, Chair, Ropes & Gray LLP

John Josephson, Chairman & CEO, SESAC Music Group

Peter S. Kalikow, President, H.J. Kalikow & Co. LLC

Robert Karofsky, President UBS Americas & Co-President,  UBS Global Wealth Management

Brad S. Karp, Chair, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Michael Kaufman, Chief Executive Officer, MAK Capital

Tetsuo Kawate, President & CEO, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)

Charles R. Kaye, Chief Executive Officer, Warburg Pincus LLC

Andrew Klaber, President & CEO, Bedford Ridge Capital

Philippe Krakowsky, Chief Executive Officer, Interpublic Group

Henry R. Kravis, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Chairman, KKR

Arvind Krishna, Chairman & CEO, IBM Corporation

Jeremy M. Kroll, CEO & Co-Founder, K2 Integrity

Barbara Armand Kushner, President, Armand Corporation

Rochelle B. Lazarus, Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy

Kewsong Lee, Founder & Managing Partner, Waterfront Partners LLC

Allan Levine, Chairman & CEO, Global Atlantic Financial Company

Jeff Levine, Chairman, Douglaston Development

Robert A. Levine, Chairman, RAL Companies & Affiliates LLC

Doreen Lilienfeld, Co-Managing Partner, US, A&O Shearman

Martin Lipton, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

George Loening, Chairman, CEO & Founder, Select Equity Group, Inc.

Jeremy London, Executive Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Roger Lynch, Chief Executive Officer, Condé Nast

Richard Mack, Chief Executive Officer, Mack Real Estate Group

Mehdi Mahmud, CEO & President, First Eagle Investments

Tracy V. Maitland, President, Advent Capital Management, LLC

Anthony Malkin, Chairman & CEO, Empire State Realty Trust

Anthony E. Mann, Chief Executive Officer, E-J Electric Installation Co.

Sharon Marcil, North America Chair, Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Dennis Mathew, Chairman & CEO, Altice USA/Optimum

Peter W. May, President & Founding Partner, Trian Partners

Chris McCarthy, Co-CEO, Paramount Global

Kevin McCarty, Chairman & CEO, West Monroe

Bill McDermott, Chairman & CEO, ServiceNow

Heather K. McDevitt, Chair, White & Case LLP

Andrew McMahon, CEO & President, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

Anish Melwani, Chairman & CEO, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc.

Gil Mermelstein, President, West Monroe

Marc Metrick, Chief Executive Officer, Saks

Alden Millard, Chair, Executive Committee, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Jayne Millard, Co-CEO & Executive Chairman, Turtle & Hughes, Inc.

Ken Moelis, Chairman and CEO, Moelis & Company

Greg Mondre, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Silver Lake

Daniel J. Moore, President & CEO, Rockefeller Group International, Inc.

Tyler Morse,Chairman & CEO, MCR Hotels/Morse Development

Deanna M. Mulligan, Chief Executive Officer, Purposeful

Daniel Nardello, Chief Executive Officer, Nardello & Co. LLC

Liz Neumark, Chair & Founder, Great Performances

Sabastian V. Niles, President & Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce

Suzette Noble, Chief Executive Officer, LaGuardia Gateway Partners

Andrew J. Nussbaum, Co-Chair & Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Douglas L. Peterson, President & CEO, S&P Global

Michael A. Peterson, Chairman & CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Charles E. Phillips, Jr., Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Recognize

Deirdre Quinn, Co-Founder & CEO, Lafayette 148 New York

Daniel Ramot, Co-Founder & CEO, Via

Steven L. Rattner, Chairman & CEO, Willett Advisors LLC

Christiana Riley, Regional Head of North America, Santander US

Gerald Rizzieri, President & CEO, Securities, Mizuho Americas

Michael M. Roberts, CEO US and Americas, HSBC

Kenneth I. Rosh, Chairman, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Evan Roth, Co-Chief Executive Officer, BBR Partners, LLC

Steven Roth, Chairman & CEO, Vornado Realty Trust

Steven Rubenstein, President, Rubenstein Communications, Inc.

Mitchell E. Rudin, Chairman, Savills Inc.

William C. Rudin, Co-Executive Chairman, Rudin Management Company, Inc.

Niki Russ Federman, Fourth Generation Owner, Russ & Daughters

Kevin P. Ryan, Founder & CEO, AlleyCorp

Faiza Saeed, Presiding Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Anjan Sahni, Managing Partner, WilmerHale

Scott Salmirs, President & CEO, ABM Industries Inc.

Michael Schmidtberger, Partner & Chair of the Executive Committee, Sidley Austin LLP

Alan D. Schnitzer, Chairman & CEO, The Travelers Companies, Inc.

Martin Schroeter, Chairman & CEO, Kyndryl Inc.

Alan D. Schwartz, Executive Chairman, Guggenheim Partners, LLC

Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder, Blackstone

Frank J. Sciame, Chairman & CEO, Sciame Construction, LLC

Caryn Seidman-Becker, Chair & CEO, CLEAR

Suzanne Shank, President & CEO, Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC

Tarek Sherif, Co-Founder, Medidata Solutions, Inc.

Stanley S. Shuman, Senior Advisor, Allen & Company LLC

Jonathan Silvan, Chief Executive Officer, Global Strategy Group, LLC

Adam Silver, Commissioner, National Basketball Association

Joshua Silverman, Chief Executive Officer, Etsy, Inc.

Stefan Simon, Chief Administrative Officer & CEO, Americas, Deutsche Bank AG

Priscilla Sims Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Amalgamated Bank

David M. Solomon, Chairman & CEO, Goldman Sachs

Jeffrey M. Solomon, President, TD Cowen

Rob Speyer, President & CEO, Tishman Speyer

Tony Spring, Chairman & CEO, Macy’s, Inc.

Robert K. Steel, Partner and Vice Chairman, Perella Weinberg Partners

Douglas C. Steiner, Chairman, Steiner Studios

William C. Stone, Founder, Chairman & CEO, SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc.

Alan Suna, Chairman, Silvercup Studios

Steven R. Swartz, President & CEO, Hearst

Paul J. Taubman, Chairman & CEO, PJT Partners Inc.

Owen D. Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, BXP

Robert J. Thomson, Chief Executive, News Corporation

Mary Ann Tighe, Chief Executive Officer, NY Tri-State Region, CBRE

James S. Tisch, President & CEO, Loews Corporation

Daniel R. Tishman, Principal & Chairman, Tishman Realty

William B. Tyree, Managing Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Hans Vestberg, Chairman & CEO, Verizon Communications, Inc.

James R. Wacht, President, Lee & Associates NYC

Jed Walentas, Principal, Two Trees Management Co, LLC

George H. Walker, Chairman & CEO, Neuberger Berman

Pamela S. Wasserstein, President, Vox Media

John Weinberg, Chairman & CEO, Evercore

Jeffrey Weiner, Chairman & CEO, Marcum LLP

Antonio Weiss, Partner, SSW Partners

Christopher J. Williams, Chairman, Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC

David Winter, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Standard Industries Inc.

Robert Wolf, Chairman, Community and CEO, 32 Advisors LLC

Kathryn S. Wylde, President & CEO, Partnership for New York City

Rudolph Wynter, President, NY, National Grid

Tim & Nina Zagat, Co-Founders, ZAGAT

Strauss Zelnick, Partner, ZMC

Michael Zetlin, Senior Partner, Zetlin & De Chiara LLP