Upcoming Speaker 

Jeffrey M. Scruggs is a managing director and chairman at Goldman Sachs & Co., where he was head of the Public Sector and Infrastructure (PSI) banking department within the Global Banking and Markets Division for 17 years after joining Goldman Sachs in 2008. Since stepping down as the department business unit leader in February 2026, he remains as a senior banker and chairman within PSI.


In 1985, Scruggs started as a financial analyst in the municipal securities group at PaineWebber Inc. After two years in that position, he served as a special assistant and manager of the loan portfolio sales program for the U.S. Department of the Interior, where he managed the sale and disposition of the department’s $700 million loan portfolio program, which was part of a federal government asset sales initiative. In 1991, Scruggs returned to the municipal securities group at PaineWebber Inc. (which became UBS Financial Services) as a vice president. He became a managing director and served as director and head of the public finance group prior to his departure.

Scruggs was a member of the board of trustees of Trinity School, a 300-year-old, independent K-12 school on New York's Upper West Side from 2013-2025. He was on the Executive Committee for 11 of those years, including having served as Finance Committee chair for 8 years. Presently he also serves on the Board of Trustees of the NHP Foundation, a nonprofit institution having invested more than $3 billion in affordable housing nationally since its inception in 1989. He is an alumnus of Harvard University, having earned a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1985 and an MBA in general management graduating as a Baker Scholar in 1991. 

Scruggs serves as the chairman of the Syracuse University Board of Trustees through May 2027. In this capacity, he chairs the Board Executive Committee, and Board Organization and Nominating Committee and serves, ex officio, on all standing committees. He also served as chair of the Finance Committee from 2022 to 2023. He served on the search committee for the Chancellor in 2025-26. Scruggs received the 2020 Dritz Rookie Trustee of the Year Award for outstanding Board service. His Syracuse University service includes membership on the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Advisory Board since 2017.

He and his wife, Robbin Mitchell, have provided lead gifts for the establishment of the Otey and Barbara Scruggs Maxwell School Scholarship, the Otey and Barbara Scruggs History Fund and the Otey and Barbara Scruggs Scholarship (The funds are named after Jeffrey’s parents. Otey was a Maxwell School faculty member for 25 years). They additionally have supported initiatives at the Maxwell School, the Barnes Center at The Arch and Syracuse University Athletics.

Jeffrey and Robbin reside in Manhattan and are the parents of Ava and Jack.