Mr. Flowers is the CEO and Chairman of J.C. Flowers & Co. He has spent more than 40 years focused on financial services, both as an advisor and as an investor. Mr. Flowers worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. from 1979 to 1998. At the time of his departure, he was Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group.

Mr. Flowers, through the Anne and Chris Flowers Foundation and personally, supports many charitable causes. These include anti-malaria efforts in Africa, and Circles of Support, which works with ex-prisoners in New York State. Mr. Flowers serves on the Committee for University Resources at Harvard University and as a trustee of the Kasparov Chess Foundation.

Mr. Flowers graduated from Harvard University in 1979, with a degree in Applied Mathematics.