Mortimer J. Buckley

Mortimer Joseph "Tim" Buckley (born 1969) is an American executive at The Vanguard Group.

Buckley was born in 1969, the son of Dr. Mortimer John Buckley and his wife Marilyn (née Scully) Buckley.

His father was the Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiac Surgical Unit in Boston.

Buckley's father, a devout Catholic from an Irish immigrant family, raised the children in the Catholic faith.

Buckley attended secondary school at the Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Massachusetts.

He later earned a BA degree in economics in 1991 from Harvard College and an MBA degree in 1996 from Harvard Business School.

In 1991 Buckley joined Vanguard as an assistant to company founder John C. Bogle.

From 2001 to 2006 Buckley was Chief Information Officer, and from 2006 to 2012 he was head of the Retail Investor Group.

He became Chief Investment Officer upon the retirement of Gus Sauter in 2013.

The Vanguard Board elected him unanimously to succeed F. William McNabb III as chief executive officer upon McNabb's retirement at the end of December 2017.

In 2017, Vanguard's Board of Directors unanimously elected Buckley to succeed F. William McNabb III as chief executive officer, effective January 2018.

In February 2024, it was announced that Buckley would step down as CEO by the end of 2024, ending a 33 year career at Vanguard.