David Schrader — Head of Private Sales for Contemporary Art at Sotheby's

Mr. David Schrader has been Head of Private Sales for Contemporary Art at Sotheby's since February 1, 2017. In his new role, Mr. Schrader works with Sotheby's global Contemporary art team and has his perspective and acumen as a sophisticated collector. Mr. Schrader has nearly two decades on Wall Street, most recently as a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan dealing with some of the world's largest financial institutions. During that time, he also established himself as a respected collector of Post-War and Contemporary Art. Mr. Schrader began on Wall Street at Bear Stearns in the late 1990s and bought his first work of art around that same time. His professional path took him to Credit Suisse before spending the past five years at JP Morgan. Mr. Schrader's interest in collecting grew as he built a successful career in finance and his market intelligence is particularly deep on artists including, Josef Albers, Mark Grotjahn, Yayoi Kusama, Sol Lewitt, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Rudolf Stingel, Andy Warhol and Christopher Wool, among others.