Wall Street and corporate America aren’t exactly known for embracing uncertainty. That trait may have come into play on Friday, when more than 90 business leaders announced their support for Kamala Harris for president, saying the vice president would “continue to pursue fair and predictable policies that support the rule of law, stability, and a sound business environment.”
A Democratic victory is “the best way to support the continued strength, security and credibility of our democracy and economy,” a group of current and former business leaders, including a former professional basketball player, said in a joint statement endorsing the Democratic presidential nominee Friday.
Among those who signed the letter, which was released to CBS News, were billionaires Mark Cuban, Irvin “Magic” Johnson and former 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch. Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and president of the Emerson Collective, also supported Harris, as did former executives of American Express, Merck, Starbucks and Yahoo.
CNBC first reported the letter endorsing Harris.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump also has the support of several prominent businessmen and investors, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, casino mogul Steve Wynn, and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.
We support the election of Kamala Harris as President of the United States.
Her election is the best way to support the continued strength, security, and reliability of our democracy and economy. With Kamala Harris in the White House, business can be confident that there will be a President who wants American industry to thrive. As President Biden’s partner, Vice President Harris has a strong record of promoting corporate investment in the United States and advancing measures to ensure that American companies can compete and win in the global marketplace. She will continue to pursue fair and predictable policies that support the rule of law, stability, and a sound business environment, and will work to provide every American with the opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
Roger Altman, Evercore Founder and Executive Chairman
Shellye Archambeau, former CEO of MetricStream
Carl Bass, former CEO of Autodesk
Tom Bernstein, President and Co-Founder of Chelsea Piers
Afsaneh Beschloss, Founder and CEO of Rock Creek
Jeff Bewkes, former CEO of Time Warner
W. Michael Blumenthal, 64th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and former CEO of Bendix and Unisys
Rosalind “Roz” Brewer, former CEO of Sam’s Club, former CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, and former COO of Starbucks
Ursula Burns, former CEO of Xerox, President of Teneo, and founding partner of Integrum Holdings
Maverick Carter, CEO of The SpringHill Company
Ken Chenault, Chairman and Managing Director of General Catalyst and former Chairman and CEO of American Express
Peter Chernin, co-founder and partner of TCG
Tony Coles, Chairman and former CEO of Cerevel
Tim Collins, Founder, CEO and Managing Director of Ripplewood
Ron Conway, Founder and Managing Partner of SV Angel
W. Don Cornwell, Co-Founder, Former Chairman and CEO, Granite Broadcasting Corporation
Robert Crandall, former president and chairman of American Airlines
Mark Cuban, co-founder of costplusdrugs.com
Richelieu Dennis, founder and managing director of Sundial Group of Companies
Barry Diller, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IAC, Chief Executive Officer of Expedia; former Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Fox Corporation
John Doerr, Chairman of Kleiner Perkins
Arnold Donald, former CEO of Carnival Corporation
Eugene J. Duffy, investment banker
Blair Effron, partner and co-founder of Centerview Partners
José E. Feliciano, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Clearlake Capital Group
David P. Fialkow, Co-Founder and Managing Director, General Catalyst
Anne Finucane, former vice president, Bank of America
Lynn Forrester de Rothschild, CEO of EL Rothschild
Ken Frazier, former Chairman, President and CEO of Merck
Mark Gallogly, Co-founder and Managing Director of Three Cairns Group and Co-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, Jackmont Hospitality
Bruce Heyman, former U.S. Ambassador to Canada and former Managing Director of Private Wealth at Goldman Sachs
Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President of Ariel Investments, Chairman of Starbucks
Roger Hochschild, former CEO and president of Discover Financial Services
Reid Hoffman, Partner at Greylock Partners and Co-Founder and Managing Director of LinkedIn
Glenn Hutchins, Chairman of North Island and Co-Founder of Silver Lake
Blake Irving, former CEO of GoDaddy
Tony James, former Chairman, CEO and Executive Vice Chairman of Blackstone; Founder of Jefferson River Capital
David Jacobson, Senior Advisor and former Vice Chairman of BMO Financial Group and former U.S. Ambassador to Canada
Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Chairman and CEO, Magic Johnson Enterprises
Paul, Brad Karp, President of Weiss
Jeffrey Katzenberg, Founder and Managing Partner of WndrCo
Ellen Kullman, President and CEO of Carbon3, and former Chairman and CEO of DuPont
Todd Lachman, Founder of Sovos Brands
Chris Larsen, co-founder and executive director of Ripple
Jeff Lawson, former CEO of Twilio
Ted Leonsis, CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment
Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box
Ed Lewis, former Chairman and CEO of Essence Communications and co-founder of Essence Magazine
William M. Lewis Jr.
Michael Lynton, chairman of Snap, Inc. and former CEO of Sony Entertainment
Tracy V. Maitland, President and Chief Investment Officer, Advent Capital Management
Helena Maus, CEO of Archetype and Marker Collective
Marissa Mayer is the co-founder and CEO of Sunshine Products and 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 and Managing Director, Union Square Hospitality Group
Raymond J. McGuire, President, Lazard
Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder and CEO of Asana
Alan Mulally, former Ford CEO
Anne Mulcahy, former chairman and CEO of Xerox
James Murdoch, Founder and CEO of Lupa Systems, former CEO of 21st Century Fox
Former Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan
Indra Nooyi, former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and CEO of Lazard
Deven J. Parekh, Managing Director, 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, Emerson Collective
Penny Pritzker, 38th U.S. Secretary of Commerce; Founder and Chairman of PSP Partners
Vasant Prabhu, former CFO and Vice President of Visa
Spencer Rascoff, founder and CEO of 75 & Sunny Ventures; co-founder and former CEO of Zillow
Punit Lenzen
Rachel Romer, Founder, Guild Education
Robert Rubin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Senior Advisor at Centerview Partners
Kevin P. Ryan, Co-founder of MongoDB, Business Insider, GILT Groupe, Zola, Pearl Health, Affect Therapeutics, and Transcend Therapeutics
Pfizer J. Said
Dan Schulman, former Chairman and CEO of PayPal
Jim Sinegal, co-founder and former CEO of Costco
Dan Springer, former CEO of Docusign
Tom Steyer, Founder and former Co-Chief Managing Partner of Farallon Capital
Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO of Yelp
Scott Stuart, Founder and Managing Partner of Sageview Capital
Larry Summers, 71st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and President Emeritus of Harvard University
Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder and CEO of Chobani
Daniel Weiss, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of 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
