Evercore Wealth Management Appoints John Sawin Vice President, Financial Advisor

Evercore Wealth Management LLC today announced the appointment of John Sawin as a Vice President and Financial Advisor at the San Francisco office of the firm.

Mr. Sawin worked for five years as an investment banker in the global technology group at Barclays, serving on teams that underwrote IPOs for Facebook, Intermolecular, RPX, NXP Semiconductors, and Sensata Technologies and advised Motorola on the spin-off and subsequent sale of its mobility unit to Google. He earlier worked at Lehman Brothers in New York as an investment banking analyst in the global industrials group.

“We welcome John to our San Francisco team,” said Evercore Wealth Management Chief Executive Officer Jeff Maurer. “His investment banking experience and extensive contacts with local technology and venture capital firms will contribute to our efforts to bring our client-focused wealth management services to that community and enhance both our national practice and the rapidly growing Evercore office in Menlo Park.”

Mr. Sawin reports to Iain Silverthorne, a Partner and Wealth Advisor at Evercore Wealth Management.

He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he received a BA in Economics in 2007. He serves as a board member and the secretary of the Golden Gate Park Golf Development Foundation in San Francisco. Mr. Sawin won the 2014 Pennsylvania Amateur golf championship.

About Evercore Wealth Management

Evercore Wealth Management, LLC, a subsidiary of Evercore, serves high net worth individuals, families, and related institutions, delivering customized investment management, financial planning, and trust and custody services. Evercore Wealth Management is a registered investment advisor with offices in New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Tampa. The firm manages $5.7 billion in client assets, as of December 31, 2014. Additionally, Evercore Wealth Management offers personal trust services to its clients through Evercore Trust Company N.A., a national trust bank with $42.4 billion in assets under administration as of December 31, 2014. More information about Evercore Wealth Management and its team of advisors can be found at www.evercorewealthmanagement.com.

About Evercore

Evercore is a leading independent investment banking advisory firm. Evercore’s Investment Banking business advises its clients on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, financings, public offerings, private placements and other strategic transactions and also provides institutional investors with high quality equity research, sales and trading execution that is free of the conflicts created by proprietary activities. Evercore’s Investment Management business comprises wealth management, institutional asset management and private equity investing. Evercore serves a diverse set of clients around the world from 28 offices in North America, Europe, South America and Asia. More information about Evercore can be found on the Company’s website at www.evercore.com.