Sally Pope Davis
Sally Pope Davis is a highly accomplished financial executive with more than 40 years of experience in financial analysis, asset management, and investing within the financial industry. She brings to the Board extensive expertise and knowledge in shareholder value creation, strategy, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions as well as board service with other companies.
Career Highlights
Ms. Davis retired as a managing director from Goldman Sachs Asset Management in 2024, where she co-led the U.S. Small Cap Value Strategies, which, during her tenure, included one of the industry's largest U.S. small-cap value funds. In addition to overseeing the portfolio, Ms. Davis was responsible for investing in the financial sector, including banks, thrifts, insurance, mortgage, capital markets, and specialty finance companies. Ms. Davis joined the Small Cap Value team in 2006, became co-lead portfolio manager in 2009, and was promoted to Managing Director in 2010. From 2001 to 2006, she served as a portfolio manager in Fundamental Equity at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where she was responsible for investments in mid- and large-cap commercial and investment banking companies. Previously, Ms. Davis was a senior sell-side equity analyst in Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research, where she focused on U.S. regional banking companies during a period of significant industry consolidation.
Prior to her tenure at Goldman Sachs, Ms. Davis covered regional banks as a sell-side analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman. She began her career at Chase Manhattan Bank, including roles in corporate finance, specializing in financial institutions, and as Vice President in Capital Planning, managing capital funding requirements for the corporation.
Ms. Davis is an independent director on the Board of First Financial Bankshares, Inc., a publicly traded corporation, and its subsidiary, First Financial Bank, where she is a member of the Risk Committee and the Compensation Committee. Ms. Davis also serves on the Board of First Financial Trust and Asset Management and its Investment Committee. Additionally, she is an independent director on the Board of Directors of Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc. and serves on the Audit, Finance, and Risk Management Committees.
Education
Ms. Davis earned a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in finance and economics from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree in finance, graduating summa cum laude, from the University of Connecticut.