John Eager

John J. Eager is President and a Partner of Williams Jones Wealth Management, LLC, a New York–based registered investment advisor serving high-net-worth individuals, families, endowments, foundations, and other institutions. Within the firm he heads the Fixed Income Group, overseeing bond and credit portfolios for the firm's private-client and institutional relationships. Williams Jones traces its lineage to Williams, Jones & Associates, LLC, where Eager spent roughly three decades before the firm's 2019 transition; the firm manages several billion dollars in client assets from offices in Manhattan (717 Fifth Avenue) and Palm Beach.

His career in fixed income spans more than four decades. From 1983 to 1989 he was a limited partner at Mabon Nugent, where he managed the firm's fixed income group. Prior to that he was a Vice President at Citibank, working in the fixed income area of the bank's high-net-worth group. Over his career he was also associated with J.J. Lowry, Dean Witter, and Kidder Peabody as a registered representative.

Eager was educated in New York. He earned a B.B.A. from Manhattan College (1969) and an M.B.A. from New York University (1971). His long tenure and specialization make him the firm's principal authority on fixed-income strategy for wealthy families and institutions.

• Manages fixed income portfolios (individual bonds, credit, and related instruments) as part of Williams Jones's discretionary and non-discretionary wealth management services — this is public-markets asset management, not startup investing.
• Clientele is high-net-worth individuals and families, endowments, foundations, pension/profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, and corporations.
• Approach emphasizes personalized, relationship-driven wealth management consistent with the firm's positioning as a boutique private-client advisor.
• No publicly documented thesis around venture, seed, or angel-stage startup investing was found.