George Moffett Cochran V

G. Moffett Cochran, co-founder and chief executive officer of Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc. (SAMG), a New York-based firm catering to wealthy families, which went public in June, has died. He was 63.Silvercrest, of which Cochran was also chairman, advises families, endowments, foundations and other institutional investors and had $14.6 billion under management as of Sept. 30. The company was the 17th-largest manager of family wealth, according to a ranking in the September issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine. His father, George Moffett Cochran IV, was a Virginia Supreme Court justice from 1969 until 1987 following a 20-year career in the state legislature. His mother, the former Lee Stuart, is a former chairwoman of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Board and a former member of the University of Virginia board of visitors. He graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in 1973 with a degree in English and stayed on to earn a law degree. He moved to New York City to work for J.P. Morgan & Co., then for Bessemer Trust Co., where he became senior vice president and director of client banking as well as a member of the management and executive committees. In 1992 he joined Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and became chairman and chief executive officer of DLJ Asset Management Group. Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group AG bought DLJ in 2000, and Cochran became president of Credit Suisse Asset Management LLC, overseeing a $300 billion asset-management business. Silvercrest opened in April 2002 as an independent, employee-owned registered investment adviser. He was chairman of the board of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation and a trustee of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in Richmond, Virginia. In addition to daughter Lee, survivors include his mother; his wife, the former DuPre Cates; a second daughter, Peyton Cochran; and a brother, Stuart Cochran.