Tad Smith

A graduate of Harvard Business School and Princeton University, Tad Smith was appointed president and chief executive of Sotheby’s in March 2015. Previously he held a number of senior roles at large media companies including The Madison Square Garden Company, Cablevision Systems Corporation and Reed Elsevier Group.

In October 2019, he was replaced by Charles F Stewart but with Smith becoming a shareholder of Sotheby's and acting as a senior adviser to Stewart. 

Sotheby’s acquire art advisors AAP

18 January 2016

The competition between auction houses to expand their private sales operations took a new twist with the announcement last week that Sotheby’s had bought art advisory firm Art Agency, Partners (AAP).