Senior Strategy Advisor, Rockefeller Capital Management
Jeffrey Shames is the Senior Strategy Advisor to Rockefeller Capital Management where he advises the CEO on Corporate Strategy, Acquisitions and Organizational Structure and he is the retired CEO and Chairman of MFS Investment Management® and the Board of Trustees of the MFS Funds.
From 2005-2021 Jeffrey was a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he lectured in Finance, Leadership and Global Health Management. After joining MFS in 1983 as an Industry Analyst and was named a Portfolio Manager in 1985, Chief Equity Officer in 1987, President in 1993 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1998. In September 2002 he retired as CEO and retained the Chairman title until his retirement in February 2004. From 2010-2013 he was a Senior Advisor at Morgan Stanley where he advised the President of Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Wealth Management.
Jeffrey is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the X Prize Foundation, Tufts Medical System, Otis College of Fine Arts, SHOFCO, Summer Search, and is a Trustee Emeritus of Wesleyan University and Chair Emeritus of the Berklee College of Music. He is, also, a member of the Advisory Boards of the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Finance Program.
He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1977 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in 1983. In between college and graduate school he served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Fiji and with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.