Roger C. Altman, Chairman of Evercore, co-founded the company in 1996. He began his investment banking career at Lehman Brothers and became a general partner of that firm in 1974. Beginning in 1977, he served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for four years. He then returned to Lehman Brothers, later becoming Co-Head of overall investment banking, a member of the firm's Management Committee and its board of directors. He remained in those positions until the firm was sold to Shearson/American Express.

In 1987, Mr. Altman joined The Blackstone Group as Vice Chairman, Head of the Firm's merger and acquisition advisory business and a member of its Investment Committee. Mr. Altman also had primary responsibility for Blackstone's international business. Beginning in January 1993, Mr. Altman returned to Washington to serve as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for two years.

Pedro Aspe is Co-Chairman of the Board and Senior Managing Director.

Mr. Aspe founded Protego in 1996, and serves as Protego's Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Aspe has been since 1995 a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México located in Mexico City. Mr. Aspe has held a number of positions with the Mexican government and was most recently the Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico from 1988 through 1994.

Mr. Aspe is a Principal member of the Investment Committee and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Discovery Americas I L.P. Mr. Aspe serves as a director of a number of public companies, including Televisa and the McGraw Hill Companies. Mr. Aspeis a member of the Board of the Carnegie Foundation, the Advisory Board of Stanford University's Institute of International Studies and the Visiting Committee of the Department of Economics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Aspe also currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of Marvin & Palmer and of MG Capital, in Monterrey, Mexico. Mr. Aspe received a B.A. in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Adam B. Frankel is a Senior Managing Director and the firm's General Counsel.

Prior to joining Evercore, from 2003 until 2006, Mr. Frankel was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc., where he established the company's in-house legal department, and was also responsible for matters related to human resources and government affairs. Prior to Genesee & Wyoming, he worked from 1999 until 2003 as a corporate and transactions attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at Ford Motor Company. From 1995 until 1999, Mr. Frankel was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in London and New York.

Mr. Frankel is currently a member of the Board of Directors at Picis, Inc., a privately held company that creates automated software for resource-intensive hospital departments, where he serves on the audit and compensation committees. He received a B.A. in economics from Brown University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. Mr. Frankel was an editor of the Stanford Law Review and of the Stanford Law and Policy Review.

Eduardo Mestre , Vice Chairman, is responsible for the firm's corporate advisory business. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Mestre served as Chairman of Citigroup's Global Investment Bank. From 1995 to 2001, he served as Head of investment banking and, prior to that, as Co-Head of mergers and acquisitions at Salomon Smith Barney. As Head of investment banking, Mr. Mestre led Salomon's business integration efforts arising from the various mergers that led to the creation of Citigroup. Prior to joining Salomon in 1977, Mr. Mestre practiced law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

Bernard Taylor, Vice Chairman, was previously Chief Executive of Braveheart, which was acquired by Evercore Partners in December 2006. In 1999, Mr. Taylor was joint Chief Executive of Global Investment Banking (Corporate Advisory, Securities, Banking, Capital Markets worldwide) and Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive of Robert Fleming & Co. Limited. On the acquisition of Flemings by Chase Manhattan, Mr. Taylor became responsible for the Investment Banking activities of the expanded Chase Manhattan Bank in Europe, Middle East and Africa as Vice Chairman and a member of the Chase Global Management Committee in New York. Following the acquisition of JPMorgan by Chase, Mr. Taylor remained a Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Investment Banking (Europe) until March 2006, when he joined Braveheart.

Mr. Taylor is a member of the Council of Oxford University and is Chairman of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee of the university, a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Commissioner on the Commission of 1851, Chairman of ISIS Innovation Limited, Deputy Chairman of TI Automotive Limited and a non-executive director of Oxford Instruments Group plc. He was educated at Cheltenham College and St. Johns College, Oxford.

Robert B. Walsh is Evercore's Chief Financial Officer, a Senior Managing Director and an Executive Vice President of the firm.

Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Walsh was a Senior Partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP, which he joined in 1979, and where he served in a number of executive management roles. As the lead partner for his clients, Mr. Walsh oversaw Deloitte's services around the globe. Among his responsibilities, he managed Deloitte's relationships with The Blackstone Group and Cantor Fitzgerald. He also oversaw the firm's relationship with Morgan Stanley.

Additionally, at Deloitte, Mr. Walsh was a Deputy Managing Partner of Deloitte & Touche LLP responsible for its national advisory services businesses. He also served on the Executive Committee of the Global Financial Services Industry Group. Mr. Walsh was also the co-Founding Partner for Deloitte's Capital Markets Group.

Mr. Walsh received a Bachelor of Science degree from Villanova University. He is a certified public accountant and is a member of The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.