Myers said he doesn’t want an administration job, but has ideas for Biden on possible appointees. He’d recommend Tom Nides, a vice chairman of Morgan Stanley, Evercore founder Roger Altman, BlackRock Inc. boss Larry Fink, Blackstone Group Inc.’s Tony James, and Blair Effron, co-founder of Centerview Partners, where Goldman executive-turned-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is a counselor, among others.

They’re all members of the centrist wing of the Democratic Party, a group of executives that tend to celebrate Wall Street rather than try to undermine it, and who were often annoyed by Sanders’s and Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential bids.

Throwing Fundraisers
Several have been throwing or attending fundraisers for Biden for months. Rubin was spotted at a fundraiser at the Carlyle Hotel last year, where the candidate said he “may not want to demonize anybody who has made money.” Top Goldman executive Stephen Scherr and former Goldman partner Eric Mindich were there, too.

Sarah Bianchi, who worked for Mindich’s hedge fund before she became Biden’s head of economic and domestic policy in the Obama administration, is now head of public policy for Evercore. She also ran the Biden Institute’s policy advisory board, a group that included Mindich, Nides, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. executive Peter Scher. Summers is a commentator for Bloomberg Television and its “Wall Street Week” program.

Jeff Zients, a former Obama economic adviser who now runs the Cranemere Group, a holding company that buys businesses, threw a Washington fundraiser for Biden. It was co-hosted by Michael Froman, Obama’s U.S. Trade Representative and now an executive for Mastercard Inc.

Fink, the billionaire who runs the world’s largest asset manager, has been seen on Wall Street for years as a potential Treasury secretary. BlackRock’s head of sustainable investing, Brian Deese, and the chairman of its investment institute, Tom Donilon, both had top roles in Obama’s White House. Obama’s two Treasury chiefs, Jacob Lew and Timothy Geithner, are now private equity executives.

‘Not Bad Folks’
”Wall Street are not bad folks, but they didn’t build this country,” Biden said last week during a fundraiser hosted by Comcast Corp. executive David L. Cohen. “The middle class built the country, ordinary women and men capable of doing extraordinary things, that’s who I believe in, that’s why I’m in this race.”

Not everyone thinks Biden will surround himself with bankers and billionaires, and Biden himself has been careful to balance his need for their advice and money and his quest to attract middle-class and progressive voters.

“The Biden camp includes people who believe that government has too often been captured by the industries that it ought to regulate -- it also includes people who have helped industries co-opt government,” said Jeff Hauser, who runs the Revolving Door Project at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a progressive think tank in Washington.

“I am optimistic that Biden understands that his legacy involves shifting to the left, and becoming more populist on a variety of economic issues. He has had an instinct for understanding the movement of the Democratic Party for two generations,” Hauser said.