Banking & Finance Annual Event
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
placeManhattan

Join UJA Wall Street at this year’s Annual Banking & Finance Event, where we’ll honor Doug Braunstein of Wells Fargo with the Pillar of the Community Award for his professional leadership and philanthropic impact.

We’re also privileged to welcome author Andrew Ross Sorkin, who will explore antisemitism in the wake of the 1929 market crash and the parallels we may be seeing today.

Your presence and support will help strengthen UJA’s vital work in this moment: supporting Israelis under fire, combating antisemitism, securing our Jewish institutions, and uplifting struggling New Yorkers.

Dietary laws observed.  

Honoring

Doug Braunstein

Vice Chairman, Wells Fargo

Doug Braunstein is vice chairman of Wells Fargo. A 40-year Wall Street veteran, Doug is focused on expanding Wells Fargo’s corporate finance and advisory businesses as well as advising its senior management.  

Over the course of his career, Doug has been a strategic advisor to numerous boards and management teams and has been involved in nearly $1 trillion in transactions. Doug spent close to two decades at JPMorgan Chase, where he held leadership roles including CFO and vice chairman as well as head of Americas Investment Banking, Global M&A, and Industry Coverage.

Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 2024, Doug founded and led for nine years Hudson Executive Capital,...

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Speaker

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Author

Andrew Ross Sorkin is an award-winning journalist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of Squawk Box, CNBC’s signature morning program. He is also the founder and editor-at-large of DealBook, an online daily financial report published by The Times that he started in 2001.

Andrew is the author of 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation (Viking, 2025), which was an instant New York Times best seller and named a Best Book of 2025 by Time, The Economist, The Financial Times, and Bloomberg.

He is also the author of Too Big to Fail: How Wall Street and Washington...

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Leadership

Event Chairs

Jeffrey H. Aronson
Co-founder & Managing Principal
Centerbridge Partners, L.P.

Larry Grafstein
Deputy Chair, Global Investment Bank
RBC Capital Markets

Alan Hartman
Partner
Centerview Partners

Charlie Scharf
Chairman and CEO
Wells Fargo

Paul J. Taubman
Chairman & CEO
PJT Partners

Larry Grafstein • Alan Hartman

Jeffrey H. Aronson
Co-founder & Managing Principal
Centerbridge Partners, L.P.

Larry Grafstein
Deputy Chair, Global Investment Bank
RBC Capital Markets

Alan Hartman
Partner
Centerview Partners

Charlie Scharf
Chairman and CEO
Wells Fargo

Paul J. Taubman
Chairman & CEO
PJT Partners

Journal Information

Journal Closing Date: Monday, April 20, 2026*

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For journal information, or to email PDF files, please contact Hannah Kirsch at or 212.836.1577.

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Hannah Kirsch

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