John P.M. Higgins

John P.M. Higgins

John P.M. Higgins has broad domestic and international experience as an asset manager of private and public securities, real estate, and oil and gas investments, as well as expertise advising not-for-profit and family organizations. Mr. Higgins is Co-Chairman and Chief Investment Officer at Clearstead Trust where he works closely with Clearstead Trust’s investment committee and clients.

Mr. Higgins was formerly an officer of Citicorp (Santo Domingo), the Lambert Brussels Capital Corporation (New York), and the Banque de Gestion Privée (Paris). For three decades, John served as the President and Chief Investment Officer of Ram Trust Services, a small boutique investment management firm in Portland, Maine which specialized in private investments, the management of generational wealth, and not-for-profit financial affairs. Most recently John was Chairman & CEO of Atlantic Trust, which was folded into Clearstead Trust.

Mr. Higgins is deeply involved in the field of corporate governance and formerly was the chairman of the board of GMI Ratings, an international organization focused on environmental, social, governance and accounting risk in publicly traded companies. John graduated from Harvard and currently sits on a number of non-profit and family boards.