Holly H. MacDonald

Ms. MacDonald is Chief Executive Officer at Bessemer Trust. She is a member of the Executive Committee, Leadership Council, and the firm’s Board of Directors. Previously, she served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Investment Officer.

Prior to joining Bessemer in 2015, Holly was Managing Director in Emerging Markets and Global Currency Strategy at J.P. Morgan, where she led investment strategy teams.

She is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets and a board member of the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon. She also serves on the YAI Board of Trustees.

Holly earned an M.B.A., with honors, from Columbia Business School and a B.A., magna cum laude, in philosophy with minors in finance and Spanish language and culture from Princeton University, where she ran Division I track and cross-country.