As Managing Director of Silvercrest Asset Management, Seán O’Dowd focuses on advising clients on liquidity events, conducting independent valuation analysis, promoting corporate governance, and developing business success plans. Before joining Silvercrest, Seán spent 13 years at Bessemer Trust, helping to create Bessemer’s Family Company Advisory group, providing corporate finance advisory services to clients. He has also worked in investment banking within Lehman Brothers’ Power Group, and in corporate finance at Ernst & Young and KPMG.

Seán holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He is also a CFA Charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.

Seán is exceptionally proud of his Irish heritage, with his father, Patrick, hailing from Kilglass, County Sligo. He serves on the Boards of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center and the Irish Business Organization of NY, and is one of the founding members of the Graduate Gateway Initiative that helps J1 Graduate Visa Holders from Ireland obtain employment in the US.  In 2020, Seán became the first North American Ambassador for the Celtic FC Foundation and is also part of the Global Celts network. He is also a Member of the Economic Club of New York, and is involved with the Sigma Chi Fraternity, for which he received the Significant Sig Award in 2022.

Seán resides in East Norwalk, CT, with his twin girls, Maeve and Emily, and their dogs, Darby and Róisín.