Jeffrey L. Shames

Jeffrey L. Shames is currently an Executive in Residence at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
He is the retired Chairman of MFS Investment Management® and the boards of trustees of the MFS Funds.

He joined MFS in 1983 as an Industry Analyst and was named a Portfolio Manager in 1985, Chief Equity Officer in 1987, President and a member of the board in 1993 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1998. In September 2002 he retired as CEO and retained the Chairman title until his retirement in February 2004.

He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1977 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management in 1983. In between college and graduate school he served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Fiji and with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Berklee College of Music, the X Prize Foundation, City Year, a national service organization, Co-Founder and Trustee of Hurricane Voices, a breast cancer foundation and a member of the Board of Directors of the Elan Corporation. He also serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Leadership Center.