| Andy Craig is a special limited partner at RiverVest®, where he advises and consults with managing partners on investment decisions. As a co-founder and former managing director of the firm, Andy has incorporated over 40 years of corporate leadership and management expertise into the fiber of the firm.
Outside RiverVest, Andy serves on the National Council for the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis and the National Council for Washington University’s School of Medicine. He is trustee emeritus of Washington University.
Before co-founding RiverVest, Andy was president, CEO, and chairman of the board of Boatmen’s Bancshares. During his tenure, the bank grew from less than $500 million in market capitalization to become the leading regional bank in the central Midwest, acquired by NationsBank for $9.7 billion in 1996. He then became chairman of NationsBank until its merger with Bank of America.
In 1995, Andy was named St. Louis Man of the Year in recognition of his significant and lifelong civic contributions. He has served as chairman of the $500 million capital campaign for the Washington University School of Medicine, chairman of the Greater St. Louis Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, chairman of the Greater St. Louis Area Economic Development Council and member of the board of commissioners of the Saint Louis Art Museum.
His many corporate board affiliations have included serving on the board of advisors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the board of directors of Petrolite, Inc., Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., Laclede Gas Company and BJC Health Systems.
Andy received his undergraduate education at Cornell University and the University of Buffalo and graduate training in banking at Rutgers University and Columbia University.
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