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James E. "Jim" Nevels is an American business executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist based in Boca Raton, Florida, best known as the founder of The Swarthmore Group, a Philadelphia-based investment advisory firm established in November 1991. Born in Greensboro, Alabama, Nevels earned an A.B. degree in political science and philosophy, graduating cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Bucknell University in 1974, followed by an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of of Pennsylvania Law School, both in 1978, through Penn's joint degree program. He began his career practicing law from 1978 through 1984 at the Philadelphia firm Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, specializing in taxable, tax-exempt, and government-assisted finance, before moving to Wall Street where he served as Vice President at Prudential-Bache Securities and Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., Inc. from 1984 until 1991, responsible for analyzing and structuring fixed income credits in transactions totaling in excess of $750 million. He founded The Swarthmore Group in 1991 with the City of Birmingham, Alabama, as his first client, growing it into one of the largest minority-owned investment advisory firms in Pennsylvania, managing approximately $1.7 billion in assets at its peak. The firm closed in June 2022 and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in August 2022. Since January 2022, Nevels has served as the founder and Managing Partner of Unicorn Partners.
Nevels served as an independent director on the board of Roman DBDR Acquisition Corp. II from December 2024 until his resignation on April 22, 2026, with immediate effect; he was replaced by Randolph C. Read on April 27, 2026. His extensive board portfolio includes serving as Chairman of The Hershey Company board from February 2009 to April 2015 and as lead independent director from April 2015 to May 2017, having first joined the Hershey board in November 2007. He was also a board member of First Data Corp from November 2014 to July 2019, Alcoa Corporation from November 2016 onward, WestRock from January 2015 onward, MeadWestvaco from June 2014 to July 2015, XL Group from October 2017 to September 2018, Tasty Baking Company from May 2005 to May 2011, and Renew Financial LLC. He served as Chairman of the Hershey Trust Company from January 2009 to December 2015 and as a board member from January 2007 to December 2009, and was a board member of the Milton Hershey School Trust, MMG Insurance Company, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. Nevels was appointed chair of the Business Council for International Understanding in June 2021.
In public service, Nevels was appointed by President George W. Bush to a three-year term on the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation from 2004 to 2007, serving as chairman from 2005 to 2007. In 2001, he was appointed by Pennsylvania's governor as chairman of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission, serving through September 2007 and overseeing the turnaround of the Philadelphia School System, then the ninth largest school district in the country. In 1998, he was appointed to the three-person board of control of the Chester-Upland School District to administer its $65 million budget. He served as a member of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 2010 to 2015, as deputy chairman from January 2012 to January 2014, and as chairman from January 2014 to December 2015. He was also nominated by the governor and confirmed by the Pennsylvania Senate in April 1998 to serve on the board of the Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System, then responsible for approximately $18 billion in fund assets, and served as a director and chair of the Finance Committee of the Ports of Philadelphia and Camden, Inc. His numerous honors include the NYSE Governance Services Inaugural Leadership Awards Non-execut
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001327751 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 37 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 17 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.