“These presidential elections have been decided and the time has come for the country to move forward,” the letter said. “President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have won … There should be no further delay in the orderly transfer of power.”
The Message It was posted on Monday by the New York City Not-for-Profit Partnership, a major advocacy group for the business community.
Plus, says Katherine Wilde, CEO of the group The initial signatories, other business leaders asked to sign the letter.
Congress is due to meet on Wednesday to ratify election results, usually in a routine process. But at least 140 Republican members of the House of Representatives and dozens of Republicans in the Senate are preparing to vote against Biden’s victory in A push to cancel the election results, Although there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
The letter includes signatures from dozens of CEOs, founders, and other leaders in various fields:
- Lee S. Ainslie, III, Managing Partner, Maverick Capital
- Ellen Allemani, Chairman and CEO, CIT Group Inc.
- Simon Allen, CEO, McGraw-Hill Education, Inc.
- Geoffrey H. Aronson, General Manager, Centerbridge Partners
- Ajay Banga, CEO of Mastercard
- Neil Barr, Managing Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
- Irene Baringer, Director of Dalberg Americas
- Candace K. Beinecke, Senior Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
- Charles R Bendet, Co-CEO, Taconic Investment Partners LLC
- Stephen Berger, Chairman, Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC
- William Berkman, Co-President and CEO of Radius Global Infrastructure, Inc.
- Seth Bernstein, President and CEO of AB
- David Beveridge, Senior Partner, Shearman & Sterling, LLP
- Michael W. Blair, Senior Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
- Jeff T. Blow, CEO, Related Companies, LB
- Cathy Bloomgarden, CEO of Ruder Finn, Inc.
- Adam Blumenthal, Managing Partner, Blue Wolf Capital Partners
- Neil Blumenthal, co-founder and co-CEO, Warby Parker
- John Porthwick, Founder and CEO, Betaworks
- Albert Burla, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc.
- John Bruckner, President of New York, The National Grid
- Ari Buchhalter, President and CEO, Intersection
- Martin S Berger, CEO, Silverstein Properties, Inc.
- Donald A. Capuchia, Director of BFC Partners
- Richard M Kachin, Managing Partner, One Equity Partners
- Timothy Cooley, President and CEO of Con Edison, Inc.
- Rodgen Cohen, Chairman, Sullivan and Cromwell LLP
- Cosea, Partner and Executive Committee Member, Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP
- Cromwell Coulson, President and CEO, OTC Markets
- Todd C. DiJarmo, CEO, STUDIOS Architecture
- Toby Dodd, President of New York Tri-State, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
- William R. Dougherty, Executive Committee Chair, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- Brian Dobrault, CEO, American International Group, Inc.
- Douglas Durst, Chairman of the Durst Organization Inc.
- Richard Edelman, President and CEO, Edelman
- Scott A. Edelman, President of Milbank LLP
- Blair W. Efron, Co-Founder, Centerview Partners
- Joel S. Ehrenkranz, Partner and Co-Founder, Ehrenkranz Partners LP
- Douglas F Eisenberg, Founder and CEO of A&E Real Estate, LLC
- Katherine Engelbert, WNBA Commissioner
- Alexander Farman Farmian, Vice Chairman, Portfolio Manager, Edgewood Management LLC
- Rob Fauber, President and CEO of Moody’s Corporation
- Lawrence de Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
- Peter Finn, Co-Founder, Finn Partners
- John Fish, Chairman and CEO, Suffolk
- Winston C. Fisher, Partner, Fisher Brothers
- Alan H. Fishman, founder, Willow Holdings, Inc.
- William E. Ford, CEO, General Atlantic LLC
- Paul Friborg, Chairman and CEO of Continental Green
- Eric J Friedman, Executive Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Dave Gilboa, Co-founder and Co-CEO, Warby Parker
- MaryAnne Gilmartin, Founder and CEO of MAG Partners LP
- Dan Glaser, President and CEO, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
- Dexter Joy, CEO, Altice USA
- Timothy Jockey, CEO, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
- Perry Gulkin, CEO of PPC Enterprises LLC
- Barry M. Goosen, CEO, Newmark Knight Frank
- Jonathan D. Gray, President and Chief Operating Officer, Blackstone
- Logan Green, co-founder and CEO of Lyft
- David J. Greenwald, Chairman, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson LLP
- Kelly Greer, US President, Managing Partner and Managing Partner of the Americas, Ernst & Young LLP
- Stuart KB Gross, General Manager, Lightyear Capital
- Robin Hayes, CEO of JetBlue Airways Corporation
- Dale Hamrdinger, President, Atco Properties & Management, Inc.
- Donna Imperato, CEO, BCW
- Frederick J. Eastman, Chairman and CEO, CI Capital Partners LLC
- Kenneth M Jacobs, Chairman and CEO of Lazard Ltd
- John Josephson, Sesac Chairman and CEO
- Roberta Kaplan, Co-Founder, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP
- Harry Cargman, Founder and CEO, Kargo Global, Inc.
- Brad S. Carb, President, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison LLP
- Charles RK, CEO of Warburg Pincus LLC
- Anthony S. Kendall, Chairman and CEO of Mitchell and Titus, LLP
- Richard A. Kennedy, President and CEO of Skanska USA Inc.
- Michel A. Khalaf, President and CEO, MetLife, Inc.
- Brian Kingston, chief real estate officer, Brookfield Asset Management
- Paul Knopp, President and CEO of KPMG LLP in the United States
- Henry R. Kravis, Co-President and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
- Philip Karim, Co-founder and CEO, Casper
- Barbara Armand Kushner, President of Armand Corporation
- Christopher Larsen, CEO of Halmar International, LLC
- Rochelle B. Lazarus, Honorary Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
- Kewsong Lee, CEO of the Carlyle Group
- Rich Lesser, President and CEO of The Boston Consulting Group
- Joy Levine, CEO, IAC
- Alan Levine, Chairman and CEO of Global Atlantic Financial Company
- Geoffrey E. Levin, Chairman, Douglaston Development Corporation
- Robert A. Levine, CEO, RAL Companies & Affiliates, LLC
- Martin Lipton, Senior Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
- Alex Liu, Managing Partner and Chairman, Kearney
- Robert P. Lucaccio, Founder and CEO, LivePerson, Inc.
- Roger Lynch, CEO of Condé Nast
- Mahdi Mahmoud, CEO and President of First Eagle Investment Management, LLC
- Anthony Malkin, Chairman, President and CEO, Empire State Realty Trust
- Anthony E. Mann, President and CEO of EJ Electric Installation Co.
- Theodore Mathas, Chairman and CEO of New York Life Insurance
- Sandeep Matherani, CEO, WeWork
- Peter W. May, President and Co-Founder, Trian Partners
- Charles R McCall, CEO of Astoria Energy II LLC & Astoria Energy LLC
- Kevin J. McCarty, Chairman and CEO of West Monroe Partners
- Andrew McMahon, President and CEO, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
- Avner Mendelson, President and CEO of Bank Leumi, USA
- Heidi Messer, Co-Founder and President, Collective[i]
- Keith Mestrich, President and CEO, Amalgamated Bank
- Mark Mettrick, President and CEO, Saks Fifth Avenue
- Edward J. Minskoff, Chairman and CEO, Edward J. Minskoff Equities, Inc.
- Greg Munder, Co-CEO, Silver Lake
- Tyler Morse, CEO and Managing Partner, MCR Development LLC
- Diana M Mulligan, CEO, DM Mulligan, LLC
- Daniel Nardello, CEO, Nardello & Co. LLC
- Liz Newmark, President and Founder of Great Performances
- Mark Pearson, President and CEO, INSAF
- Michael A. Peterson, Chairman and CEO of the Peter J. Peterson Foundation
- Michael Phillips, President, Jamestown Properties LLC
- Charles E Phillips, Jr., Infor Chairman
- Deirdre Quinn, Co-Founder and CEO, Lafayette 148 New York
- Daniel Ramot, Founding Partner and CEO, Via
- Stephen L. Ratner, Chairman and CEO of Willett Advisors LLC
- Scott H. Richler, Chairman and CEO of RXR Realty LLC
- Christiana Reilly, Member of the Board of Directors of Deutsche Bank AG, Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Bank USA
- John Romeo, Managing Partner, Oliver Wyman
- James A. Rosenthal, CEO of BlueVoyant
- Evan Roth, Co-CEO, BBR Partners, LLC
- Michael I.Roth, Chairman and CEO of The Interpublic Group
- Stephen Rubinstein, President, Rubenstein Communications, Inc.
- William C.Rudin, Co-President and CEO, Rudin Management Company, Inc.
- Kevin P Ryan, AlleyCorp founder and CEO
- Timothy Ryan, US President and Senior Partner, PwC
- Faiza Saeed, Senior Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
- Scott Salmers, President and CEO, ABM Industries Inc.
- Ralph Schlossstein, Co-President and Co-CEO, Evercore Partners Inc.
- Michael Schmidtberger, Partner and Chair of the Executive Committee, Sidley Austin LLP
- Alan D. Schnitzer, Chairman and CEO, The Travelers Companies, Inc.
- Alan D. Schwartz, CEO, Guggenheim Partners, LLC
- Kathleen Shanahan, CEO, Turtle & Hughes, Inc.
- Susan Shank, President and CEO, Siebert Williams Shank & Co. , LLC
- Joseph C. Schenker, President, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
- Tarek Sharif, Co-Founder and CEO, Medidata Solutions, Inc.
- Jonathan Silvan, CEO, Global Strategy Group, LLC
- Adam Silver, National Basketball Association Commissioner
- Joshua Silverman, CEO, Etsy, Inc.
- Brad Smith, President of Microsoft Corporation
- David M Solomon, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs
- Geoffrey Solomon, Chairman and CEO, Quinn
- Rob Speyer, President and CEO, Tishman Speyer
- Stephen J. Squire, Chairman and CEO of American Express
- Robert K. Steele, Chairman of Perella Weinberg Partners
- Douglas C. Steiner, Chairman of Steiner Studios
- Alan Sunna, CEO, Silvercup Studios
- Sanjay Swani, Managing Partner, Tailwind Capital
- Stephen R. Schwartz, President and CEO, Hearst
- Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture
- Paul J Taubman, Chairman and CEO, PJT Partners Inc.
- Owen de Thomas, CEO of Boston Real Estate
- Gary M Tischler, Founder and Managing Partner, Vanbarton Group LLC
- Daniel R. Tishman, Vice Chairman of AECOM and Director of Tishman Realty
- Paul Todd, CEO of GLG
- Jean-Marie Trident, CEO, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
- William B. Tyree, Managing Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
- Joseph Okuzoglu, CEO of Deloitte
- Robert Vecchio, CEO, LPI, Inc.
- Ellis Verdi, President of DeVito / Verdi
- James R Wacht, President, Lee & Associates NYC
- George H. Walker, Chairman and CEO of Neuberger Berman Group LLC
- Robert E. Wankel, Chairman and CEO, Shubert Foundation, Inc.
- Pamela S. Wasserstein, Head of Vox Media
- David Winter, Co-CEO, Standard Industries Inc.
- Robert Wolf, CEO of 32 Advisors LLC
- Catherine S. Wilde, President and CEO of the New York City Partnership
- Nina Zagat, Co-Founder, Zagat
- Tim Zagat, Co-Founder, Zagat
- Strauss Zelnick, Partner, ZMC
- James Zelter, Co-President, Apollo Global Management, Inc.
- John Zimmer, Co-founder and President, Lyft