Sherman Baldwin

Sherman Baldwin joined Accenture in September 2004 as an Associate Partner in the Communications and High Tech Group and eventually moving into his current role as Managing Partner in Aerospace and Defense. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Strategy & Development at Pratt & Whitney, a leading designer and manufacturer of jet engines and industrial gas turbines from April 2002 to December 2003. He was previously founder and Managing Director of the New York office of Redleaf Group, a venture capital firm. He has also served as Vice President, managing member and equity partner at J.F. Lehman & Company and as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. Before starting his business career Sherman served as a naval aviator from 1988 to 1995. In 1991 during the first Gulf War he piloted EA-6B Prowlers off the U.S.S. Midway. He later worked as a special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy and as a planner for the strategic plans and policy division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has written a book, Ironclaw, about his Gulf War experience. Sherman has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1995. He is also a founding trustee of the Childrens Pompe Foundation and a member of the American Council on Germany. Sherman has earned a B.A. in political science from Yale University, a Masters degree in telecommunications from George Washington University and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School. He and his family make their home in Connecticut. Sherman is a member of the 2003 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.