MORRIS W. OFFIT
Chairman
Morris W. Offit is Chairman of Offit Capital Advisors and Chairman of the firm's Investment Committee.
From 2002 to June 2007, Mr. Offit was the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Offit Hall Capital Management LLC. Prior to that time he was founder and CEO of OFFITBANK, a wealth management private bank, which merged with Wachovia Bank in 1999.
Mr. Offit began his career in 1960 at Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Company in Baltimore in investment research. He joined Salomon Brothers in 1969 and for ten years was a General Partner, establishing the Stock Research Department with subsequent responsibility for fixed income and equity sales.
Mr. Offit received a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University (1957) and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1960). He was the recipient of an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from The Johns Hopkins University in 1996. In 1983, he served as Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Columbia Graduate School of Business, lecturing on the secondary capital markets.
Mr. Offit completed a three-year term as President of UJA-Federation of New York in 2007. (Chairman emeritus). His other primary affiliations include serving as a Trustee of The Johns Hopkins University (former Chairman of the Board 1990-1996). He is also a Trustee of the Jewish Museum (former Chairman of the Board 1987-1991) as well as a Trustee of the American Museum of Natural History. In April 2005, Mr. Offit was elected a Director of American International Group, Inc. (“AIG”).