Blair W. Effron co-founded Centerview in 2006.
The Firm has advised on nearly $3 trillion of transactions since its founding. The Firm’s over 350 professionals are in New York, London, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Paris and San Francisco as well as in investing offices in Palo Alto, California, and Greenwich, Connecticut.
Mr. Effron began his career at Dillon Read Co. Inc., where he worked ten years before it was merged into several successor firms, in what was to become UBS. While at UBS, Mr. Effron was among the most senior bankers in the organization. He was group vice chairman of UBS AG and a member of the Board of UBS Investment Bank, where he also sat on several management committees.
In his over 30-year career, Mr. Effron has advised Fortune 500 and multinational companies across a range of sectors including in the Consumer and Retail, General Industrial, Healthcare and Media industries.
Mr. Effron currently sits on the boards of trustees of The Council on Foreign Relations (Vice Chairman), Lincoln Center (Treasurer), the Metropolitan Museum, New Visions for Public Schools (Co-Chair), the Partnership for New York City and Princeton University. He also sits on the advisory board of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative affiliated with the Brookings Institution, and is a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. He holds a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
