Sotheby's BID today
announced that William S. Sheridan, Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer, is leaving the Company after 17 years of service. Patrick
S. McClymont, a partner and managing director at Goldman, Sachs & Co., was
named to succeed Mr. Sheridan, effective October 7.
"I want to thank Bill for his many years of stewardship and service," said
Bill Ruprecht, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "He contributed a great
deal to Sotheby's during his 17 year tenure, especially through the Company's
anti-trust matter. I will always be grateful for the guidance Bill provided as
the Company navigated through highly complex finance and regulatory
environments."
Mr. Sheridan was a long-time partner at the accounting and consulting firm
Deloitte & Touche LLP prior to coming to Sotheby's in 1996 as CFO. He
remarked, "I have had the privilege of working with a highly skilled, highly
professional finance, investor relations and information technology team at
Sotheby's that I invested in and helped build, and they deserve an enormous
amount of credit for all that we accomplished. It has been a true pleasure to
be part of Sotheby's and now I look forward to spending more time with my
family and focusing on charitable work," he said.
Mr. Sheridan will remain with Sotheby's through the end of 2013 to support the
CFO transition. Mr. McClymont joins Sotheby's from Goldman, Sachs & Co., where
he has been a partner and managing director in the Investment Banking
Division. In that position, he led client relationships and provided strategic
and corporate finance advice to companies across multiple industry sectors,
including Sotheby's, which he advised on strategic and financial matters for a
number of years. A 1991 graduate of Cornell University, he joined Goldman,
Sachs in 1998. "We are very fortunate that in Patrick we have someone with
sterling credentials, extensive financial expertise, and a deep knowledge of
our business. We welcome him to Sotheby's," said Mr. Ruprecht.
About Sotheby's
Sotheby's has been uniting collectors with world-class works of art since
1744. Sotheby's became the first international auction house when it expanded
from London to New York (1955), the first to conduct sales in Hong Kong (1973)
and France (2001), and the first international fine art auction house in China
(2012). Today, Sotheby's presents auctions in eight different salesrooms,
including New York, London, Hong Kong and Paris, and Sotheby's BIDnow program
allows visitors to view all auctions live online and place bids from anywhere
in the world. Sotheby's offers collectors the resources of Sotheby's Financial
Services, the world's only full-service art financing company, as well as
private sale opportunities in more than 70 categories, including S|2, the
gallery arm of Sotheby's Contemporary Art department, and two retail
businesses, Sotheby's Diamonds and Sotheby's Wine. Sotheby's has a global
network of 90 offices in 40 countries and is the oldest company listed on the
New York Stock Exchange (BID).
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