Lawton W. Fitt
The Darden School '79
Goldman Sachs

The first 10 years of Lawton Fitt's career were spent in the corporate finance department of Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s New York and London offices. She worked with a wide range of clients on financings, mergers and other transactions. In 1989, she joined the Equity Capital Markets group where she became responsible for the execution of IPO's and other equity financings, concentrating on high technology companies.

In all, Fitt has been responsible for an estimated 250 transactions in the past decade. She became involved in financing Internet companies in 1995 with the IPO of UUnet. Since then, Fitt has quarterbacked the IPO's of such star performers as Yahoo!, eBay, DoubleClick, Inktomi, iVillage, eToys, Starmedia, Exodus, and Juniper Networks. In September 1999, she was named one of the 25 Most Influential People in Electronic Business by Business Week magazine, and in October 1999, was included in Fortune¹s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business.

Fitt is a Boston native who received her A.B. in European History from Brown University. After working for three years, including a stint in the Peace Corps in West Africa, she came to Charlottesville to attend the Darden Graduate Schoo of Business Administration. A Shermet scholar, member of the Raven Society and winner of the Z Society Award, she received her M.B.A. from Darden in 1979 and immediately upon graduation joined Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Lawton is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Darden School Foundation.