“This presidential election has been decided and it is time for the country to move forward,” says the letter. “President-elect Joe Biden and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris have won … There should be no more delays in the orderly transfer of power.”
The letter was published on Monday by the nonprofit Partnership for New York City, a leading advocacy group for the business community.
The group’s CEO, Kathryn Wylde, says that in addition to initial signatories, other business leaders asked to sign the letter.
On Wednesday, Congress is due to meet to certify election results, which is usually a routine process. But at least 140 House Republicans and a dozen Senate Republicans are preparing to vote against Biden’s victory in an attempt to overturn the election results, although there is no evidence of widespread electoral fraud.
The letter includes signatures from dozens of CEOs, founders and other leaders in various sectors:
- Lee S. Ainslie, III, Managing Partner, Maverick Capital
- Ellen Alemany, President and CEO, CIT Group Inc.
- Simon Allen, CEO, McGraw-Hill Education, Inc.
- Jeffrey H. Aronson, managing director of Centerbridge Partners
- Ajay Banga, Executive President, Mastercard
- Neil Barr, managing partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
- Erin Barringer, Director, Dalberg Americas
- Candace K. Beinecke, Senior Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
- Charles R. Bendit, Co-Executive Director, Taconic Investment Partners LLC
- Stephen Berger, President of Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC
- William H. Berkman, Co-President and CEO, Radius Global Infrastructure, Inc.
- Seth Bernstein, President and CEO, AB
- David Beveridge, senior partner, Shearman & Sterling, LLP
- Michael W. Blair, President Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
- Jeff T. Blau, CEO, The Related Companies, LP
- Kathy Bloomgarden, CEO, Ruder Finn, Inc.
- Adam M. Blumenthal, managing partner, Blue Wolf Capital Partners
- Neil Blumenthal, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Warby Parker
- John Borthwick, founder and CEO, Betaworks
- Albert Bourla, President and CEO of Pfizer Inc.
- John Bruckner, President, NY, National Grid
- Ari Buchalter, President and CEO, Intersection
- Martin S. Burger, Executive Director, Silverstein Properties, Inc.
- Donald A. Capoccia, Director, BFC Partners
- Richard M. Cashin, managing partner, One Equity Partners
- Timothy Cawley, President and CEO, Con Edison, Inc.
- Rodgin Cohen, senior president, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
- Anthony R. Coscia, Partner and Member of the Executive Committee, Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP
- Cromwell Coulson, President and CEO, OTC Markets Group
- Todd C. DeGarmo, CEO, STUDIOS Architecture
- Toby Dodd, President, New York Tri-State, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
- William R. Dougherty, President, Executive Committee, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- Brian Duperreault, CEO, American International Group, Inc.
- Douglas Durst, president of Durst Organization Inc.
- Richard Edelman, President and CEO, Edelman
- Scott A. Edelman, President, Milbank LLP
- Blair W. Effron, co-founder, Centerview Partners
- Joel S. Ehrenkranz, partner and co-founder, Ehrenkranz Partners LP
- Douglas F. Eisenberg, founder and CEO, A&E Real Estate, LLC
- Catherine Engelbert, Commissioner, WNBA
- Alexander Farman-Farmaian, vice president, portfolio manager, Edgewood Management LLC
- Rob Fauber, President and CEO, Moody’s Corporation
- Laurence D. Fink, President and CEO, BlackRock
- Peter Finn, founding partner, Finn Partners
- John Fish, President 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, President and CEO, Continental Grain Company
- Eric J. Friedman, executive partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Dave Gilboa, co-founder and ceo-CEO, Warby Parker
- MaryAnne Gilmartin, founder and CEO, MAG Partners LP
- Dan Glaser, President and CEO, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
- Dexter Goei, CEO, Altice USA
- Timothy Gokey, CEO, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
- Perry Golkin, CEO, PPC Enterprises LLC
- Barry M. Gosin, CEO, Newmark Knight Frank
- Jonathan D. Gray, President and COO, Blackstone
- Logan Green, co-founder and CEO, Lyft
- David J. Greenwald, President, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
- Kelly Grier, President and Managing Partner of the USA and Managing Partner of the Americas, Ernst & Young LLP
- Stewart KP Gross, Managing Director, Lightyear Capital
- Robin Hayes, CEO, JetBlue Airways Corporation
- Dale Hemmerdinger, President, Atco Properties & Management, Inc.
- Donna Imperato, CEO, BCW
- Frederick J. Iseman, President and CEO, CI Capital Partners LLC
- Kenneth M. Jacobs, President and CEO, Lazard Ltd
- John Josephson, President and CEO, Sesac
- Roberta Kaplan, founding partner, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP
- Harry Kargman, founder and CEO, Kargo Global, Inc.
- Brad S. Karp, President, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
- Charles R. Kaye, CEO, Warburg Pincus LLC
- Anthony S. Kendall, President and CEO, Mitchell & Titus, LLP
- Richard A. Kennedy, President and CEO, Skanska USA Inc.
- Michel A. Khalaf, President and CEO, MetLife, Inc.
- Brian Kingston, CEO of Real Estate, Brookfield Asset Management
- Paul Knopp, US President and CEO, KPMG LLP
- Henry R. Kravis, Co-President and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
- Philip Krim, co-founder and CEO, Casper
- Barbara Armand Kushner, President, Armand Corporation
- Christopher Larsen, CEO, Halmar International, LLC
- Rochelle B. Lazarus, President Emeritus, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
- Kewsong Lee, CEO, The Carlyle Group
- Rich Lesser, President and CEO, Boston Consulting Group
- Joey Levin, CEO, IAC
- Allan Levine, President and CEO, Global Atlantic Financial Company
- Jeffrey E. Levine, president of Douglaston Development
- Robert A. Levine, CEO, RAL Companies & Affiliates, LLC
- Martin Lipton, senior partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
- Alex Liu, managing partner and president of Kearney
- Robert P. LoCascio, founder and CEO, LivePerson, Inc.
- Roger Lynch, CEO, Condé Nast
- Mehdi Mahmud, CEO and President, First Eagle Investment Management, LLC
- Anthony Malkin, President, President and CEO, Empire State Realty Trust
- Anthony E. Mann, President and CEO, EJ Electric Installation Co.
- Theodore Mathas, President and CEO, New York Life Insurance Company
- Sandeep Mathrani, CEO, WeWork
- Peter W. May, president and founding partner, Trian Partners
- Charles R. McCall, Executive Director, Astoria Energy II LLC and Astoria Energy LLC
- Kevin J. McCarty, President and CEO, West Monroe Partners
- Andrew McMahon, President and CEO, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
- Avner Mendelson, President and CEO, Bank Leumi USA
- Heidi Messer, Co-founder and President of the Collective[i]
- Keith Mestrich, President and CEO, Amalgamated Bank
- Marc Metrick, President and CEO of Saks Fifth Avenue
- Edward J. Minskoff, President and CEO, Edward J. Minskoff Equities, Inc.
- Greg Mondre, Co-Executive Director, Silver Lake
- Tyler Morse, CEO and Managing Partner, MCR Development LLC
- Deanna M. Mulligan, CEO, DM Mulligan, LLC
- Daniel Nardello, CEO, Nardello & Co. LLC
- Liz Neumark, president and founder, Great Performances
- Mark Pearson, President and CEO, Equitable
- Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
- Michael Phillips, President, Jamestown Properties LLC
- Charles E. Phillips, Jr., President, Infor
- Deirdre Quinn, co-founder and CEO, Lafayette 148 New York
- Daniel Ramot, co-founder and CEO, Via
- Steven L. Rattner, President and CEO, Willett Advisors LLC
- Scott H. Rechler, President and CEO, RXR Realty LLC
- Christiana Riley, Member of the Board of Directors, Deutsche Bank AG, CEO, Deutsche Bank USA
- John Romeo, managing partner, Oliver Wyman
- James A. Rosenthal, CEO, BlueVoyant
- Evan Roth, Executive Co-Director, BBR Partners, LLC
- Michael I. Roth, President and CEO, Interpublic Group
- Steven Rubenstein, President, Rubenstein Communications, Inc.
- William C. Rudin, Co-President and CEO, Rudin Management Company, Inc.
- Kevin P. Ryan, founder and CEO, AlleyCorp
- Timothy Ryan, President and Senior Partner, USA, PwC
- Faiza Saeed, CEO, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
- Scott Salmirs, President and CEO, ABM Industries Inc.
- Ralph Schlosstein, Co-President and Co-CEO, Evercore Partners Inc.
- Michael Schmidtberger, partner and chairman of the executive committee, Sidley Austin LLP
- Alan D. Schnitzer, President and CEO, The Travelers Companies, Inc.
- Alan D. Schwartz, executive chairman, Guggenheim Partners, LLC
- Kathleen Shanahan, CEO, Turtle & Hughes, Inc.
- Suzanne Shank, President and CEO, Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC
- Joseph C. Shenker, President, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
- Tarek Sherif, co-founder and CEO, Medidata Solutions, Inc.
- Jonathan Silvan, CEO, Global Strategy Group, LLC
- Adam Silver, Commissioner, National Basketball Association
- Joshua Silverman, CEO, Etsy, Inc.
- Brad Smith, President, Microsoft
- David M. Solomon, President and CEO, Goldman Sachs
- Jeffrey Solomon, President and CEO, Cowen
- Rob Speyer, President and CEO of Tishman Speyer
- Stephen J. Squeri, President and CEO, American Express Company
- Robert K. Steel, president of Perella Weinberg Partners
- Douglas C. Steiner, president, Steiner Studios
- Alan Suna, CEO, Silvercup Studios
- Sanjay Swani, managing partner, Tailwind Capital
- Steven R. Swartz, President and CEO, Hearst
- Julie Sweet, CEO, Accenture
- Paul J. Taubman, President and CEO, PJT Partners Inc.
- Owen D. Thomas, CEO, Boston Properties
- Gary M. Tischler, founder and managing partner, Vanbarton Group LLC
- Daniel R. Tishman, vice president, AECOM and director, Tishman Realty
- Paul Todd, CEO, GLG
- Jean-Marie Tritant, CEO, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
- William B. Tyree, managing partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
- Joseph Ucuzoglu, CEO, Deloitte
- Robert Vecchio, CEO, LPI, Inc.
- Ellis Verdi, President, DeVito / Verdi
- James R. Wacht, President, Lee & Associates NYC
- George H. Walker, President and CEO, Neuberger Berman Group LLC
- Robert E. Wankel, President and CEO, The Shubert Organization, Inc.
- Pamela S. Wasserstein, President, Vox Media
- David Winter, Co-Executive Director, Standard Industries Inc.
- Robert Wolf, CEO, 32 Advisors LLC
- Kathryn S. Wylde, President and CEO, Partnership for New York City
- 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