Published mark
Jefferies Financial Group Inc.
NYSE: JEF. Canonical company identity and public leadership record.
US
Record source reportedRecord not claimedNo Eval published
- Alpha ID
- alpha:company:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898
- SEC CIK
- 0000096223
- Website
- www.jefferies.com Open
- Record version
- vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce, published Oct 18, 2026
- Newest evidence
- Feb 23, 2026
- Monitoring
- Not yet monitored Details
- Integrity
- Not yet signed Methodology
- CEO
- Richard B. HandlerChief Executive Officer
- Chair
- Not published
- Independent
- 8 / 1010 directors published
- Published claims
- 473 distinct sources
- Evidence records
- 70 pinned
- Source conflicts
- 0None open
Built from 3 distinct sources and 7 evidence records. Every Claim links to where it appears. Where nothing was published, the record states the coverage gap.
CorroboratedSource reportedAlpha inferenceNot disclosed
Public record. Alpha publishes governance facts about this organization from regulatory filings and company statements. Private enterprise overlay data is never projected here. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. How this works
GC CHANGED
Michael J. Sharp executive of Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2026-02-23.
EffectiveEffective Feb 23, 2026E5
Monitoring
ContinuousWhat the published record states about identity, evidence, evaluation, monitoring, authority, and freshness. Watched-source schedules are not published for this record.
- IdentityunclaimedPublished
- Evidencesource_reportedPublished
- Evaluationnot_evaluatedPublished
- MonitoringNot yet published for this record.Not published
- AuthorityNot yet published for this record.Not published
- FreshnesscurrentPublished
Leadership
Evidence| Role | Person | Since | Status | Claim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Executive Vice President and General Counsel | Michael J. Sharp | Feb 2026 | current | Source reportedE5 |
| Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Principal Financial Officer | Michael Larson | Feb 2026 | current | Source reportedE6 |
| Vice President and Controller | Mark L. Cagno | Not captured | unknown | Source reportedE4 |
| Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | Matt Larson | Not captured | unknown | Source reportedE4 |
| Chief Executive Officer | Richard B. Handler | Not captured | unknown | Source reportedE4 |
Board of directors
Evidence10 directors published. 8 of 10 with a published determination are independent.
| Director | Status | Since | Committees | Claim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian P. Friedman | Not independent | 2013 | None published | Source reportedE3 |
| Jacob M. Katz | Independent | 2018 | None published | Source reportedE3 |
| Joseph S. Steinberg | Independent | 1978 | None published | Source reportedE3 |
| MaryAnne Gilmartin | Independent | 2018 | CompensationCompensation; Nominating and Governance; Risk; ESG · ChairESG, chairNominating and GovernanceRisk | Source reportedE3 |
| Matrice Ellis Kirk | Independent | 2021 | ESGNominating and GovernanceNominating and Governance; Risk; ESGRisk | Source reportedE3 |
| Melissa V. Weiler | Independent | 2021 | AuditAudit; Compensation · Chair; RiskCompensation, chairRisk | Source reportedE3 |
| Michael T. OKane | Independent | 2013 | CompensationCompensation; Nominating and GovernanceNominating and Governance | Source reportedE3 |
| Robert D. Beyer | Independent | 2013 | Compensation, chairCompensation · Chair; RiskRisk | Source reportedE3 |
| Thomas W. Jones | Independent | 2022 | AuditAudit; Nominating and Governance; Risk · Chair; ESGESGNominating and GovernanceRisk, chair | Source reportedE3 |
| Yoshihiro Hyakutome | Not independent | 2026 | None published | Source reportedE3 |
| Jacob M. Katz | Independence not published | Not published | Audit, chairESGRisk | Source reportedE7 |
Committees and risk ownership
Evidence| Committee | Chair | Members | Risks assigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audit | Jacob M. Katz | Jacob M. Katz, Melissa V. Weiler, Thomas W. Jones | Not described in the published record |
| Audit; Compensation · Chair; Risk | Not published | Melissa V. Weiler | Not described in the published record |
| Audit; Nominating and Governance; Risk · Chair; ESG | Not published | Thomas W. Jones | Not described in the published record |
| Compensation | Robert D. Beyer | Melissa V. Weiler, Robert D. Beyer, MaryAnne Gilmartin, Michael T. OKane | Not described in the published record |
| Compensation · Chair; Risk | Not published | Robert D. Beyer | Not described in the published record |
| Compensation; Nominating and Governance | Not published | Michael T. OKane | Not described in the published record |
| Compensation; Nominating and Governance; Risk; ESG · Chair | Not published | MaryAnne Gilmartin | Not described in the published record |
| ESG | MaryAnne Gilmartin | MaryAnne Gilmartin, Jacob M. Katz, Matrice Ellis Kirk, Thomas W. Jones | Not described in the published record |
| Nominating and Governance | Not published | MaryAnne Gilmartin, Matrice Ellis Kirk, Michael T. OKane, Thomas W. Jones | Not described in the published record |
| Nominating and Governance; Risk; ESG | Not published | Matrice Ellis Kirk | Not described in the published record |
| Risk | Thomas W. Jones | Thomas W. Jones, Jacob M. Katz, MaryAnne Gilmartin, Matrice Ellis Kirk, Melissa V. Weiler, Robert D. Beyer | Not described in the published record |
Committee AppointmentJacob M. Katz: chair, Audit
Committee AppointmentMelissa V. Weiler: member, Audit
Committee AppointmentThomas W. Jones: member, Audit
Committee RecordCompensation: Chair Melissa V. Weiler; Robert D. Beyer; Members Melissa V. Weiler (Chair); Robert D. Beyer (Chair); MaryAnne Gilmartin; Michael T. OKane
Committee AppointmentMelissa V. Weiler: chair, Compensation
Committee AppointmentRobert D. Beyer: chair, Compensation
Committee AppointmentMaryAnne Gilmartin: member, Compensation
Committee AppointmentMichael T. OKane: member, Compensation
Committee RecordESG: Chair MaryAnne Gilmartin; Members MaryAnne Gilmartin (Chair); Jacob M. Katz; Matrice Ellis Kirk; Thomas W. Jones
Committee AppointmentMaryAnne Gilmartin: chair, ESG
Committee AppointmentJacob M. Katz: member, ESG
Committee AppointmentMatrice Ellis Kirk: member, ESG
Committee AppointmentThomas W. Jones: member, ESG
Committee RecordNominating and Governance: Chair not stated; Members MaryAnne Gilmartin; Matrice Ellis Kirk; Michael T. OKane; Thomas W. Jones
Committee AppointmentMaryAnne Gilmartin: member, Nominating and Governance
Committee AppointmentMatrice Ellis Kirk: member, Nominating and Governance
Committee AppointmentMichael T. OKane: member, Nominating and Governance
Committee AppointmentThomas W. Jones: member, Nominating and Governance
Committee RecordRisk: Chair Thomas W. Jones; Members Thomas W. Jones (Chair); Jacob M. Katz; MaryAnne Gilmartin; Matrice Ellis Kirk; Melissa V. Weiler; Robert D. Beyer
Committee AppointmentThomas W. Jones: chair, Risk
Committee AppointmentJacob M. Katz: member, Risk
Committee AppointmentMaryAnne Gilmartin: member, Risk
Committee AppointmentMatrice Ellis Kirk: member, Risk
Committee AppointmentMelissa V. Weiler: member, Risk
Committee AppointmentRobert D. Beyer: member, Risk
Control and voting power
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Authority to act
Evidence and agent registryWho can act for the company, and on whose authority. This is what a counterparty's agent checks before it accepts an order, signs, or pays.
Principal executive officerRichard B. Handler, Chief Executive Officer
Who can authorize an agentNot assessedNo Alpha inference about signing authority or board-reserved matters is published for this record.
Not assessed
AI agents registered by the companyNot registered in the public RegistryAgent Deployments, Agent Use Cases, Authority Grants, TrustChecks, Action Ledger entries and Governance Receipts live in the private enterprise overlay. They are never projected into the public Registry without explicit cross-plane authorization. Absence here is a plane boundary, not evidence that the enterprise operates no agents.
Agent registry
Delegations publishedNot disclosedBoard and officer delegation resolutions are not public filings and are not published in this record.
Search scope
Financials and market context
EvidenceSecurity ListingJEF (NYSE)
Index membershipsNo current membership is published in Alpha's tracked index universe.This is not evidence that the company is absent from every market index.
None publishedAs of Oct 18, 2026. Rights-filtered public evidence only; no redistribution or model training is granted. Only source-backed memberships with an explicit public redistribution basis are returned.
Governance and policies
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Risk, audit, and cyber
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
AI oversight and accountability
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Legal and regulatory
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Compensation
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Other published claims
EvidencePublished Claims that belong to no section above. Each keeps its permalink, evidence, and assertion state.
Legal NameJefferies Financial Group Inc.
Entity StatusPublic listing published
Official Websitehttps://www.jefferies.com
Published FactUS
Published Facthttps://www.jefferies.com
Not yet in this record
CoverageA gap is a coverage state, not a negative finding. These sections are expected for this entity class and are not yet published.
- Corporate structureNot reviewed. Parent, subsidiary and predecessor structure explains who is governed.
- OwnershipNot reviewed. Ownership and voting power determine who can influence the board.
- FinancialsNot reviewed. Governance-relevant financial context frames capital and audit decisions.
- CompensationNot reviewed. Pay design shows how incentives are governed.
- GovernanceNot reviewed. Governing documents and provisions set the rules of the enterprise.
- Shareholder governanceNot reviewed. Meeting and vote records show shareholder dissent and support.
- AuditNot reviewed. Auditor, controls and restatements show assurance over reporting.
- LegalNot reviewed. Material legal and regulatory matters show enforcement exposure.
- RiskNot reviewed. Risk ownership links the board, committees, executives and controls.
- CyberNot reviewed. Cyber and data governance is a disclosed oversight domain.
- AI governanceNot reviewed. AI oversight is a differentiated Alpha governance domain.
- Markets externalNot reviewed. Auditors, advisors, investors and regulators form the external ecosystem.
- Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.
- Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.
- Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.
- Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.
- This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.
Linked people
Same claims as person records- Michael J. SharpExecutive Vice President and General Counselcompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:19
- Michael LarsonExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Principal Financial Officercompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:20
- Mark L. CagnoVice President and Controllercompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:17
- Matt LarsonExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officercompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:18
- Richard B. HandlerChief Executive Officercompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:21
- Brian P. FriedmanDirectorcompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:7
- Jacob M. KatzDirectorcompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:8
- Joseph S. SteinbergDirectorcompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:9
- MaryAnne GilmartinDirectorcompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:10
- Matrice Ellis KirkDirectorcompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:11
- Melissa V. WeilerDirectorcompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:12
- Michael T. OKaneDirectorcompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:13
- Robert D. BeyerDirectorcompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:14
- Thomas W. JonesDirectorcompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:15
- Yoshihiro HyakutomeDirectorcompany:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:leadership_role:16
- Jacob M. KatzDirector (committee appointment)company:efa513f6-2c48-46c2-9e97-d5e4a3d4e898:committee_record:22
Subject and corrections
Public-role doctrineThis record exists because the company is in the published Registry. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. Corrections are versioned and the original stays in history.
- Basis
- Published company record built from public sources
- Sources
- 7 evidence records cited. 0 with redistribution rights.
- Never published
- Private enterprise overlay data: deployments, authority grants, TrustChecks, receipts, telemetry
- Record claimed
- No
- Open disputes
- 0
- Identity ownership
- unclaimed
Claiming not yet available
If the company claims the record, its statements appear as their own assertion state and never overwrite the cited evidence.
Evidence
Authority and rights- E1Alpha canonical company public projection. canonical identity. Retrieved Oct 18, 2026. Cited by 4 Claims.
- E2Jefferies Form 10-K. Issuer record. Retrieved Sep 2, 2026. Cited by 2 Claims.
- E3sec proxy. Published Feb 23, 2026. Retrieved Jul 12, 2026. Cited by 10 Claims.
- E4leadership page. Retrieved Sep 2, 2026. Cited by 3 Claims.
- E5sec filing. Published Feb 23, 2026. Retrieved May 4, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E6sec filing. Published Feb 23, 2026. Retrieved May 4, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E7board_seats. board seats. Cited by 26 Claims.
What changed in version public-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce
vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce published Oct 18, 2026- Michael J. Sharp executive of Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2026-02-23.
- Michael Larson executive of Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2026-02-23.
- Yoshihiro Hyakutome seat on Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2026-01-01.
- Thomas W. Jones seat on Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2022-01-01.
- Audit; Nominating and Governance; Risk · Chair; ESG committee of Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2022-01-01.
- Thomas W. Jones member of Audit; Nominating and Governance; Risk · Chair; ESG, effective 2022-01-01.
- Matrice Ellis Kirk seat on Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2021-01-01.
- Melissa V. Weiler seat on Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2021-01-01.
- Audit; Compensation · Chair; Risk committee of Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2021-01-01.
- Melissa V. Weiler member of Audit; Compensation · Chair; Risk, effective 2021-01-01.
- Nominating and Governance; Risk; ESG committee of Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2021-01-01.
- Matrice Ellis Kirk member of Nominating and Governance; Risk; ESG, effective 2021-01-01.
- Jacob M. Katz seat on Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2018-01-01.
- MaryAnne Gilmartin seat on Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2018-01-01.
- Compensation; Nominating and Governance; Risk; ESG · Chair committee of Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2018-01-01.
- MaryAnne Gilmartin member of Compensation; Nominating and Governance; Risk; ESG · Chair, effective 2018-01-01.
- Brian P. Friedman seat on Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2013-01-01.
- Michael T. OKane seat on Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2013-01-01.
- Robert D. Beyer seat on Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2013-01-01.
- Compensation · Chair; Risk committee of Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2013-01-01.
- Robert D. Beyer member of Compensation · Chair; Risk, effective 2013-01-01.
- Compensation; Nominating and Governance committee of Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 2013-01-01.
- Michael T. OKane member of Compensation; Nominating and Governance, effective 2013-01-01.
- Joseph S. Steinberg seat on Jefferies Financial Group Inc., effective 1978-01-01.