Beesham A. Seecharan is Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel, and a Client Advisor at Matthews South. Previously, Beesham worked at Goldman Sachs for over fifteen years as a Managing Director and Senior Counsel, where he also served as co-chair of a divisional Asian Professionals Network. Beesham previously worked at JPMorgan Chase and in the New York and London offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell. Prior legal experience includes work at Shearman & Sterling, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.S. Department of Education. Beesham was the first man to join in its 34 year history and now chairs the board of directors of Sakhi for South Asian Women. Beesham also currently serves on the Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School, on the Advisory Boards of the Center for Public Research and Leadership at Columbia University and the Center for Leadership at Florida International University, on the Legal Advisory Committee for the New York City Urban Debate League, and on the Private Sector Steering Committee of the South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY). This year, he made his Broadway debut as a Co-producer of Here Lies Love and joined as a Co-Executive Producer of Beyond Utopia. Beesham received his JD from Columbia Law School and an MS and an AB from Stanford University.