George Herbert Walker IV

Walker was raised in St. Louis, Missouri.[1] His parents are Kimberly Gedge and George Herbert Walker III, an investment brokerage executive and U.S. Ambassador to Hungary.[6][7]

He comes from a family of industrialists and financiers, originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Walker's great-grandfather, George Herbert Walker, was the founder of G. H. Walker & Co., a securities firm, which eventually became part of Merrill Lynch.[6] His grandfather, George Herbert Walker Jr., was a co-founder of the NY Mets.[6] His grand-aunt, Dorothy, married Senator Prescott Bush, father of U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush and grandfather of U.S. President George Walker Bush.[7]

He went to high school at St. Louis Country Day School in Ladue, Missouri. In 1986, he received an all-expense-paid scholarship from the U.S. Congress and the German Bundestag to study in Germany for the 1986-87 school year.[1]

Walker went to the University of Pennsylvania where he received the Harry S. Truman Scholarship and was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar.[8][9] He was also a member of St. Anthony Hall.[10][11] He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and received a B.S. in finance and a B.A. in history, both summa cum laude.[8][12]

He also received his MBA as a Palmer Scholar from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[8]

Walker began his career on Wall Street when he joined Goldman Sachs in the Merger Department in 1992.[9] Six years later, in 1998, Walker became one of the youngest partners in the firm's history.[8] He held several senior positions at Goldman, including co-head of the firm's Wealth Management business, and head of Alternative Investment Strategies.[8]

President George Herbert Walker Bush appointed Walker to the Jacob Javits and Presidential Scholar Boards for the Department of Education.[8]

Walker was recruited to a rival investment bank, Lehman Brothers, to head its Investment Management Division, of which Neuberger was a part. Following Lehman's bankruptcy and the announcement of the sale of Neuberger, Walker assumed his present position of chairman and CEO of Neuberger Berman.[3][4]

He is married to the former Nancy Dorn.

He served on the board of the New School, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Vintage Fund, the University of Pennsylvania Arts & Sciences’ Board of Advisors, and Youth EnterNet.[8][12][13] He also served on the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City.[12] In 2003, he funded the Alan Charles Kors Term Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania in honor of a former professor.[13]