Katherine August-deWilde, MBA ’75

Katherine August-deWilde, MBA ’75

Vice Chair, First Republic Bank

Katherine August-deWilde is vice chair of First Republic Bank (NYSE:FRC), and an experienced independent corporate board member with publicly and privately held companies. In 1985 she was instrumental in the launch of First Republic, and served as its president from 2007 to 2015, growing enterprise value in excess of 25 percent per year. In 2007 First Republic was sold to Merrill Lynch at 3.7X book value; three years later, along with First Republic’s chairman and CEO, Ms. August de-Wilde co-led a management buy-back at 1X book value. Prior to joining First Republic, she was CFO at the PMI Group and a consultant for McKinsey & Company in San Francisco and London.

Since assuming her role as vice chair of First Republic in 2016, Ms. August de-Wilde has focused on her board portfolio, which includes TriNet Group, Inc. (NYSE:TNET), Sunrun (NASDAQ:RUN), Eventbrite (NYSE:EB), and Equilar Inc. She is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Stanford Center on Longevity; the Catalyst Corporate Board Resource; the Committee of 200; and Broadway Angels.

She has been a board member of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research; vice chair of the board of trustees of the Town School for Boys; trustee of the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco; trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and a member of the policy advisory board of the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, University of California, Berkeley. In 2018, she was named a Fellow at the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute and received the Excellence in Leadership Award from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

In honor of her reunion in 2015, she and her husband, David deWilde, MS ‘84, created the Katherine and David deWilde Endowed and Expendable Funds for Women’s Achievement.

Ms. August-deWilde holds a BA in History from Goucher College and an MBA (1975) from Stanford Graduate School of Business.