Vernon Jordan VJ?

A partner at Lazard Frères & Co. LLC in New York and senior managing director of Lazard Group LLC, and of counsel/senior counsel at Akin Gump, Jordan "is a whisperer to the powerful, the man who can make the introduction, give the straight talk and soothe the egos of business titans," writes Sujeet Indap for the London-based publication. "His powerbroker persona is most manifest in his decades-long friendship with Bill and Hillary Clinton. To jaded voters on the left and right, he is the ultimate Washington insider, a man whose seamless waltz between business and politics has fueled resentment at an incestuous system. Yet his successes in the boardroom and the smoke-filled backroom have, by now, obscured a distinguished role in the civil rights movement – and an upbringing in the segregated Deep South. Born into a world that had little use for his talents, Vernon Jordan would make himself indispensable."