David G. Offensend
David G. Offensend is the Chief Operating Officer of The New York Public Library. Before joining NYPL, Dave spent nine years at Evercore Partners Inc., a private equity and investment banking firm he co-founded in 1995. Evercore operates in four lines of business with approximately $1.3 billion of capital under management. Prior to founding Evercore, Mr. Offensend spent five years in the investment organization of Robert M. Bass, the Texas investor. Based in New York, Mr. Offensend was responsible for the leveraged acquisitions portfolio of Acadia Partners, L.P., and a $1.8 billion investment partnership. Prior to joining the Bass organization in 1990, he spent thirteen years at Lehman Brothers, where he was responsible for founding building that firm’s merchant banking operations. While there he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the $1.3 billion Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking Partnership. Mr. Offensend received a B.A., magna cum laude, in public and international affairs from Princeton University in 1975 and an M.B.A., with high distinction, from the Harvard Business School in 1977, where he as a Baker Scholar.
