Innovation on Wall Street: Rise of Financial Technology
John Shrewsberry '87, Wells Fargo's CFO, is responsible for Wells Fargo’s financial management functions including controllers, financial reporting, tax management, asset-liability management, treasury, corporate development, and investor relations. Mr. Shrewsberry is also responsible for Wells Fargo’s investment portfolios as well as the company’s corporate properties functions and strategic planning. He serves on the Wells Fargo operating, management, and market risk committees and is based in San Francisco.
A 20-year veteran of banking and investing, Shrewsberry served as head of Wells Fargo Securities from 2006 through May 2014, where he was responsible for investment banking, capital markets, institutional fixed income, equity, and derivatives sales and trading, investment research, and a credit-intensive principal investment portfolio. From 2001 through 2005, he was the group head of Wells Fargo Commercial Capital, the successor to a commercial finance company he co-founded that became part of Wells Fargo in 2001. Previously, Shrewsberry worked at Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston in the principal finance areas. He started his career as a Certified Public Accountant at Coopers & Lybrand.
Shrewsberry earned his B.A. in economics from Claremont McKenna College and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management.
He currently serves on the board for the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. Committed to serving the communities around him, he also serves on the boards of the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, the Yale School of Management, and is active with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
This special event will begin with a networking cocktail reception at 4:15 pm. Dinner will be served at 5:15 pm and the speaker program will begin at 6 pm.