The Partnership for New York City today announced that Steven Fulop will serve as its next President and Chief Executive Officer. Fulop’s selection follows an extensive search led by Partnership co-chairs Albert Bourla and Robert Speyer and former Partnership Chair Steve Swartz. The selection of Fulop was voted on and confirmed by the Partnership’s Search Committee, Executive Committee, and Board of Directors.

Fulop will succeed outgoing President and CEO Kathryn S. Wylde. Wylde has led the organization since 2000, and has been a pillar of New York’s civic and political life for decades. 

Fulop currently serves as the Mayor of Jersey City. He is a former Councilmember and U.S. Marine, having enlisted after 9/11.

The thirteen-person Partnership Search Committee, with the guidance of search firm Heidrick & Struggles, considered over 30 candidates for the position before awarding the role to Fulop. 

“Steven brings the expertise and leadership that this moment demands,” said Albert Bourla and Rob Speyer, co-chairs of the Partnership for New York City’s Board of Trustees. “Our members look forward to working with him to ensure New York City continues to thrive. We are profoundly grateful to Kathy Wylde for her outstanding leadership, which leaves a lasting legacy on both the Partnership and our city.”

“The Partnership for New York City has been the cornerstone of the City’s civic life for nearly half a century, and it’s a tremendous honor to be named its next President and CEO,” said Steven Fulop, Mayor of Jersey City and incoming President and CEO of the Partnership for New York City. “The Partnership’s member organizations are the engines behind New York’s economy, employing more than one million people, and uniquely positioned to build a stronger, more prosperous city. I am humbled to take the reins from Kathy Wylde, who built the organization into the influential force it is today, and I look forward to joining the Partnership to help tackle the complex challenges that New York City faces.”

“Steve Fulop understands the importance of maintaining strong relationships between business, labor, government, and the nonprofit sectors, which has been central to the Partnership’s mission since it was founded by David Rockefeller,” said Kathryn Wylde, outgoing President and CEO of the Partnership for New York City. “I look forward to working with him through what I am confident will be a successful transition.” 

Steven Fulop’s term as the 49th Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, one of the largest, most diverse, and most prosperous cities in the state, will end in January 2026. Since taking office in 2013, Fulop has transformed the city’s economic, social, and cultural landscape, adding more than $1.4 billion to its tax rolls and leading breakthrough initiatives to build affordable housing, strengthen city infrastructure, and spur economic growth. His accomplishments include:

• Spearheading efforts to expand growth and development beyond the city’s waterfront in neighborhoods such as Journal Square, McGinley Square, and Bergen-Lafayette

• Supporting the construction of more than 10,000 residential units and approving more than 18,000 additional units for future construction, including Bayfront, an 8,000-unit, mixed-income housing development that broke ground earlier this year, and Holland Gardens, a former public housing development being reimagined as a mixed-income community

• Advocating for innovative policies and tax abatements to catalyze development in underinvested neighborhoods across the city

• Overseeing the launch of Citi Bike in Jersey City, expanding the popular bike-share program to 50 locations throughout the city

• Completing an expansive, citywide park improvement plan that implemented more than 25 park updates, including new plazas and public spaces and the creation of Bethune, Fairmount, and Coles Parks 

• Breaking ground on the $130 million renovation of the iconic Loew’s Jersey Theatre

• Distributing millions of dollars in Arts and Culture Trust Fund grants to support Jersey City’s $46 million arts and culture sector 

• Implementing the City’s Paid Sick Leave law, making Jersey City the first city in New Jersey and the sixth city in the nation to enact paid sick leave

Prior to being elected Mayor, Fulop served as the councilman representing downtown Jersey City. He also worked at Goldman Sachs in their Chicago, Manhattan, and Jersey City offices. On the morning of September 11, 2001, Fulop was working in Lower Manhattan when he saw the first plane strike the Twin Towers. He decided to join the Marine Corps Reserves weeks later and was deployed to Iraq in 2003. Fulop completed his service to the Marine Corps Reserve in 2006 with the rank of Corporal.

Steven Fulop is a first-generation American and a triathlete. He grew up in a Jewish family in Edison, New Jersey, the son of Romanian immigrants and the grandson of Holocaust survivors. He graduated from Binghamton University in 1999, earned a Masters in Business Administration from NYU’s Stern School of Business, and received a Masters in Public Administration at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Fulop currently lives in Jersey City with his wife, Jaclyn, and their three children: Jaxon, Stassi, and Sage.

Kathryn Wylde has served as President and CEO of the Partnership for New York City since 2000. She joined the Partnership as one of its first employees in 1982 and led its work rebuilding the city’s fire-ravaged neighborhoods with affordable homes. Subsequently she was the CEO of the Partnership Fund, which helped to finance the emergence of Silicon Alley and a commercial life sciences sector. 

About the Partnership for New York City

The Partnership for New York City represents the city’s business leaders and largest employers. We work with government, labor, and the nonprofit sector to promote economic growth and maintain the city’s prominence as a global center of economic opportunity, upward mobility, and innovation. The Partnership Fund for New York City is the Partnership’s investment arm. The Fund invests in entrepreneurs and innovators in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors who contribute to building a more vibrant and inclusive New York City economy. Visit pfnyc.org to learn more.