John McCray Goldsmith

Managing Director, Wells Fargo Investment Portfolio (retired)

San Francisco, CA

John McCray Goldsmith serves The Episcopal Church as a board member and treasurer for the College for Bishops, overseeing the College's endowment, and was a member of the Endowment Investment Advisory Committee for the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. He was also a Presbyterian Mission Associate from 1988 to 1995, working with Habitat for Humanity International in Nicaragua and Jamaica.

During his professional career, John served as a managing director at Wells Fargo, where he worked as a portfolio manager on the bank’s $40 billion municipal bond portfolio. Prior to this, he worked as an investment banker in the public infrastructure finance field at Lehman Brothers and Barclays for 21 years.

His work at Wells Fargo supported the bank's ESG and climate investment commitments, with a particular focus on building a $1 billion portfolio of affordable housing and community development investments that addressed the bank’s obligations under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). He also represented the investment portfolio in the bank-wide CRA policy reform working group, which provided stakeholder comments to the federal agencies leading the regulatory reform processes and coordinated the bank's compliance with the rules.

A fluent Spanish speaker, he has been a parishioner and musician at Spanish-speaking congregations in the Diocese of California and the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real. He is married to the Very Rev. Julia McCray-Goldsmith, Dean Emerita of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in San Jose, CA.

He was elected to his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

John received an MBA and a Master of City and Regional Planning degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA in Government from Cornell University.