Wall Street and corporate America are no stranger to uncertainty, a characteristic that could be played out as more than 90 business leaders on Friday announced their support for Kamala Harris for president, saying the vice president will “continue to advance fair and predictable policies that support the rule of law, stability and a healthy business environment.”
Voting for Democrats “is the best way to support the strength, security and reliability of our democracy and our economy,” current and former corporate leaders — former professional basketball players among them — said Friday in endorsing the Democratic presidential nomination.
Among those who signed the letter released to CBS News: billionaire Mark Cuban, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and former 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch. Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and head of Emerson Collective, also supported Harris, along with former heads of American Express, Merck, Starbucks and Yahoo.
CNBC first reported on the letter supporting Harris.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump also has the support of several prominent corporate figures and investors. They include Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, casino tycoon Steve Wynn and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, among others.
We support the election of Kamala Harris as President of the United States.
Their election is the best way to support the strength, security, and reliability of our democracy and economy. With Kamala Harris in the White House, the business community can rest assured that they will have a President who wants American industry to thrive. As a partner to President Biden, Vice President Harris has a strong record of progressive action to encourage business investment in the United States and ensure American businesses can compete and win in the global marketplace. He will continue to advance fair and predictable policies that support the rule of law, stability, and a healthy business environment, and he will work to ensure that every American can achieve the American dream.
Roger Altman, Founder & Senior Chairman of Evercore
Shellye Archambeau, former CEO of MetricStream
Carl Bass, former CEO of Autodesk
Tom Bernstein, President and Co-Founder of Chelsea Piers
Afsaneh Beschloss, Founder & CEO of Rock Creek
Jeff Bewkes, former CEO of Time Warner
W. Michael Blumenthal, 64th US Treasury Secretary and former CEO of Bendix and Unisys
Rosalind “Roz” Brewer, former CEO of Sam’s Club; former CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance; former COO of Starbucks
Ursula Burns, former Xerox CEO; Chairman Teneo; Founding partner of Integrum Holdings
Maverick Carter, CEO of The SpringHill Company
Ken Chenault, Chairman and Managing Director of Catalyst and former Chairman and CEO of American Express
Peter Chernin, Co-Founder & Partner of TCG
Tony Coles, Chairman & former CEO of Cerevel
Tim Collins, Founder, CEO, and Senior Managing Director of Ripplewood
Ron Conway, Founder & Managing Partner of SV Angel
W. Don Cornwell, Co-founder, former Chairman & CEO of Granite Broadcasting Corporation
Robert Crandall, former President and Chairman of American Airlines
Mark Cuban, Co-founder of costplusdrugs.com
Richelieu Dennis, Founder and Executive Chairman of Sundial Group of Companies
Barry Diller, Chairman & Senior Executive of IAC and Senior Executive of Expedia; Former Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Fox, Inc.
John Doerr, Chairman of Kleiner Perkins
Arnold Donald, former CEO of Carnival Corporation
Eugene J. Duffy, Investment Banker
Blair Effron, Partner & Co-Founder of Centerview Partners
José E. Feliciano, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Clearlake Capital Group
David P. Fialkow, Co-Founder & Managing Director General Catalyst
Anne Finucane, former Vice Chairman of Bank of America
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Chief Executive of EL Rothschild
Ken Frazier, former Executive Chairman, President & CEO of Merck
Mark Gallogly, Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Three Cairns Group; Founder of Centerbridge Partners
Chad Gifford, Former Chairman of Bank of America
David Grain, Founder and CEO of Grain Management
Logan Green, Chairman and former CEO of Lyft
Daniel J. Halpern, Co-founder and CEO of Jackmont Hospitality
Bruce Heyman, Former US Ambassador to Canada and former Managing Director of Private Wealth at Goldman Sachs
Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President of Ariel Investments; The head of Starbucks
Roger Hochschild, former CEO and President of Discover Financial Services
Reid Hoffman, Partner at Greylock Partners and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of LinkedIn
Glenn Hutchins, Chairman of North Island or Co-Founder of Silver Lake
Blake Irving, former CEO of GoDaddy
Tony James, former President, CEO & Executive Vice Chairman of Blackstone; Founder of Jefferson River Capital
David Jacobson, Senior Advisor and former Vice Chairman of BMO Financial Group; Former US Ambassador to Canada
Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Chairman and CEO, Magic Johnson Enterprises
Brad Karp, Chairman Paul, Weiss
Jeffrey Katzenberg, Founder & Managing Partner of WndrCo
Ellen Kullman, President and CEO of Carbon3; former Chairman and CEO of DuPont
Todd Lachman, Founder of Sovos Brands
Chris Larsen, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Ripple
Jeff Lawson, former CEO of Twilio
Ted Leonsis, CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment
Aaron Levie, Co-Founder & CEO of Box
Ed Lewis, former Chairman and CEO of Essence Communications, co-founder of Essence Magazine
William M. Lewis, Jr.
Michael Lynton, Chairman of Snap, Inc., former CEO of Sony Entertainment
Tracy V. Maitland, President and Chief Investment Officer of Advent Capital Management
Helena Maus, CEO of Archetype and Marker Collective
Marissa Mayer, co-founder and CEO of Sunshine Products, former CEO of Yahoo!
TJ McGill, Co-Founder of Evergreen Pacific Partners and Suzanne Sinegal McGill, Co-Founder of Rwanda Girls Initiative
Danny Meyer, Founder & Executive Chairman of Union Square Hospitality Group
Raymond J. McGuire, President of Lazard
Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder and CEO of Asana
Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford
Anne Mulcahy, former Chairman and CEO of Xerox
James Murdoch, Founder & CEO of Lupa Sistem; former CEO of 21st Century Fox
Laxman Narasimhan, former CEO of Starbucks
Indra Nooyi, former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
Peter Orszag, former Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget and CEO of Lazard
Deven J. Parekh, Managing Director of Insight Partners
Sean Parker, Founder of Napster; Founder and Chairman of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Charles Phillips, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Recognize; former President of Oracle and former CEO of Infor;
Laurene Powell Jobs, Founder and President of Emerson Collective
Penny Pritzker, 38th US Secretary of Commerce; founder and Chairman of PSP Mitra
Vasant Prabhu, former CFO and Vice Chairman of Visa
Spencer Rascoff, Founder and CEO of 75 & Sunny Ventures; Co-Founder and former CEO of Zillow
Punit Renjen
Rachel Romer, Founder of Education Guild
Robert Rubin, former US Treasury Secretary; Senior Advisor at Centerview Partners
Kevin P. Ryan, Co-founder, MongoDB, Business Insider, GILT Groupe, Zola, Pearl Health, Affect Therapeutics, and Transcend Therapeutics
Faiza J. Saeed
Dan Schulman, former President & CEO of PayPal
Jim Sinegal, Co-Founder and Former CEO of Costco
Dan Springer, former CEO of Docusign
Tom Steyer, Founder and former Co-Senior-Managing-Partner of Farallon Capital
Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO of Yelp
Scott Stuart, Founding & Managing Partner of Sageview Capital
Larry Summers, 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury and President Emeritus of Harvard University
Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder & CEO of Chobani
Daniel Weiss, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Angeleno Group
Steve Westly, Founder and Managing Partner of The Westly Group
Ron Williams, former CEO of Aetna
Robert Wolf, former CEO of UBS Americas
