Peter Lawson-Johnston II

Peter Lawson-Johnston, II is a Managing Partner and Board Member of Guggenheim Capital, LLC, a wealth management and investment management company. Guggenheim currently supervises approximately $100 billion. Lawson-Johnston and his father, Peter Lawson-Johnston Sr., are the great-grandson and grandson of Solomon R. Guggenheim, and are the managing members of Guggenheim Brothers. Lawson-Johnston II also serves as a director and chairman of the Investment Committee for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, a private foundation that sponsors the scholarly research of problems of violence, aggression and dominance. Lawson-Johnston also serves as a trustee and member of the Investment Committee of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which operates contemporary art museums in New York, Bilbao, Venice, Berlin and Las Vegas. Lawson-Johnston, II earned his bachelor’s at Trinity College and his master’s in real estate development at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning.