John C. O'Hara Jr. has joined global wealth management firm Rockefeller Financial as a managing director and senior advisor.
O'Hara is based in New York and will focus on new business development activities, working closely with other company professionals.
O'Hara most recently served as chief operating officer of Franklin Street Partners, an independent wealth management firm based in North Carolina. Prior to that, he was a managing director in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs, as well as of Commodities Corporation, which was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 1997.
O'Hara is chairman of the Institute for the Arts & Humanities at the University of North Carolina, President of the Kenan Flagler Business School Foundation, and a member of the Board of Governors of the UNC Press. He received a master's in business administration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Headquartered in New York and with offices in Boston; Washington D.C.; Stamford; Connecticut; and Wilmington; Delaware; Rockefeller Financial is a leading global wealth management firm that provides comprehensive wealth and investment management services to a diversified client base of individuals, families, trusts, foundations and other institutions.