Jewelle Bickford
New York
Jewelle Bickford joined Evercore Wealth Management in August 2013 as a Partner and Wealth and Fiduciary Advisor. She worked closely with the firm's planning and investment professionals, focusing on family governance, private wealth education, and the Wise Women series.
Jewelle retired as a partner at Evercore Wealth Management on Dec 31, 2020 and became President of Paradigm4parity, a non profit dedicated to achieving gender and racial equality for women.
She joined Evercore Wealth Management from GenSpring Family Offices, where she served as a senior strategist, responsible for cultivating relationships with high net worth families. She also led the company's focus on women and wealth.
Prior to joining GenSpring in 2009, Ms. Bickford was a global partner at Rothschild Group, concentrating on cross-border new business origination, and head of the debt capital markets for Rothschild Inc. She was a member of N.M. Rothchild’s Global Banking and Treasury Committee. She merged her investment banking firm, Bickford & Partners Inc., into Rothschild Inc. in 1994.
Ms. Bickford is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the founder of Women and Foreign Policy, the Council's task force on the role of women in economic and political development in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
She currently serves as co-chair on the board of directors of MasterVoices. She also serves on the board of directors of Women for Women International and the Women's Media Center, and on the Business Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is a board member and the past president of the Trisha Brown Dance Company and is a Trustee Emeritus of the Randolph-Macon Women's College. From 2003 to 2010 she served on the board of directors of the SEC-registered Torrey Funds. Continuously from 2003 through 2007, she attended Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Conference.
Additionally, Ms. Bickford is a member of the Committee of 200, the Women's Forum and the co-chair of the Paradigm for Parity Movement, and currently President of the Paradigm4parity nonprofit.
She earned her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1977, and is a graduate of The Fuqua School of Business Executive Education program at Duke University.