William R. Gruver has been a director of TheStreet.com since October 2003 following a 20 year career at Goldman Sachs & Co. the international investment banking firm. In the wake of the 1987 stock market crash Gruver was named Chief Administrative Officer of the firm’s largest division -- the equities division -- which under his leadership reorganized and redeployed its people and capital to become one of the firm’s most profitable areas. In 1992 the firm was listed as one of the 100 Best Companies To Work For and Gruver retired as a general partner in the firm’s most profitable year of his tenure.
He has remained active in finance and business as a board member of TheStreet.com Inc. Hirtle Callaghan & Co (a $13 Billion Investment Advisor) Bank Nord (a private bank in Milan Italy) and GPS Partners (a hedge fund based in Los Angeles).
An international strategic consultant for financial firms in the United States the United Kingdom Italy and Switzerland Gruver is also a national arbitrator of the National Association of Securities Dealers and he sits on the boards of Berea College and the Geisinger Health System Foundation.
Gruver is an Adjunct Professor in the Management Department of Bucknell University where he teaches courses in investment banking strategy investments leadership and international relations and where he serves as the Distinguished Executive in-Residence.
Gruver’s thoughts have been published by (among others) The New Republic The Association of Governing Boards (AGB) Cornell University’s Johnson School Finanz and Wirtschaft the Holocaust Centre (Beth Shalom) and Physician Executive.
Gruver received an M.B.A. from Columbia University and A.B. (with distinction) from Dartmouth College. |