Business-Community Interface Overhaul — Mayor's Fund Advisory Board Dismissed Aug 3 → Wall Street Advisory Council Recruited Aug 7

Aug 3: Mamdani cleared the Mayor's Fund corporate advisory board (first full sweep in three-plus administrations). Aug 7: recruitment leaks name ex-UBS Americas CEO Robert Wolf, ex-Lazard/Obama Treasury counselor Antonio Weiss, and BofA NYC president Jose Tavarez as targets. Aug 27: formal launch with 15 members — Wolf, Chobani's Hamdi Ulukaya, Etsy's Kruti Patel Goyal, Amalgamated Bank's Priscilla Sims Brown, Northwell's Dr. John D'Angelo among confirmed; Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su co-chairs, quarterly cadence. Fortune reports Wall Street and Big Tech CEOs — including Jamie Dimon — declined invitations; the panel Mamdani got is heavier on consumer-brand and healthcare CEOs than on bulge-bracket bankers. Not a policy-setting body, so the operative question is whose voices actually reach budget and EO language, not whether a photograph of billionaires ends up in the room.