William T. Spitz

William T. Spitz

Board Member at Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company Tenure: 9 years
Education:
Vanderbilt University (B.A.) University of Chicago (M.B.A.)
Biography:

William T. Spitz is a Principal at Diversified Trust Company, with a tenure of 29 years with the company. Spitz’s corporate affiliations include roles at MassMutual and Acadia Realty Trust. Spitz is a Trustee at Kenyon College in Ohio and previously served as the Vice Chancellor for Investment and Vanderbilt University. Spitz’s educational background includes a B.A. in Business Administration from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

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But in the last few years there's been this shift in the whole corporate sensibility where people are beginning to say wait a minute, we have lots of constituencies, not just shareholders, we have employees, we have communities, we have customers and so on. So I think we're in the middle of a titanic shift from the Freedman mentality to a different mentality where it's all about multiple constituencies. And my own view is that in some number of years I don't know what it'll be, four or five years perhaps something like know, we won't even talk about ESG. It'll be so embedded in everything we do that we won't have to think about it.