Frederick O. Terrell

Frederick O. Terrell is the Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Wells Fargo & Company. Previously, he served as Senior Advisor at Centerbridge Partners, L.P., a multi-strategy investment platform, where he focused on investments in the financial services and technology sectors. Mr. Terrell was Executive Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Capital Markets at Credit Suisse, where he was responsible for some of the firm’s important client relationships. Earlier in his career, Mr. Terrell served as Head of Mortgage Finance at CS First Boston, where he pioneered numerous innovations in mortgage markets and asset securitization. He began his investment banking career at The First Boston Corporation as an Associate where he created the first derivative transactions for the tax-exempt market. Later, he was Founder and Managing Partner of Provender Capital Group, LLC, which invested in emerging and growth-oriented companies on behalf of major institutional investors.

Mr. Terrell has served on the boards of several prominent public and private companies, including Paramount Global, CBS Corporation, BNY Mellon Corporation, Vroom, New York Life Insurance Company, WellChoice, and Carver Bancorp. His current philanthropic and civic commitments include membership on the Investment Committee of the Rockefeller Foundation and service on the boards of Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C., The Maggie Junior Golf and Community Foundation and the Advisory Board of the Center for a New American Security, a Washington DC based foreign policy think tank. 

Mr. Terrell previously served on the University Council of Yale University and the Board of Advisors of the Yale School of Management. He is a currently a member of the Economic Club of New York and the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a B.A. from La Verne College, an M.A. from Occidental College, and an M.B.A. from Yale University where he gave the school’s commencement address in 2002. He a 1977 Coro Foundation Fellow in Public Affairs the former Chairman of its New York City Leadership Center.