Brian Maillian Net Worth 2026: WhiteStone Chairman, Everest Director

No reputable outlet has published a net worth for W. Brian Maillian, the Wall Street investment banker who founded WhiteStone Global Partners and is married to supermodel Beverly Johnson. The $22 million figure that used to lead this page had no source and has been removed. What is documented is a career of more than four decades in mortgage finance and advisory work, starting at Salomon Brothers in 1977, and a board seat on a publicly listed SPAC.

What is Brian Maillian's net worth?

Forbes, Bloomberg, Celebrity Net Worth and major newspapers have not estimated his wealth. WhiteStone is private, so its revenue and his earnings are not public. The one company where his role was disclosed in securities filings, Everest Consolidator Acquisition Corporation, was a blank-check company in which he served as an independent director, not an owner-operator. Its filings describe his background but not his personal wealth.

Because none of these sources gives a number, we do not publish one. The old $22 million estimate and the $750,000 yearly income attached to it were not traceable to anything.

Brian Maillian yearly earnings, monthly income and salary

The previous version of this page listed $750,000 a year, $62,500 a month and $2,100 a day, and said most of it came from Everest. None of that was sourced. Directors of a SPAC are typically paid little or nothing in cash before a deal closes, and his main business for three decades has been WhiteStone, whose finances are private. His income is unknown.

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Education

Maillian studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. According to the Everest Consolidator registration statement filed with the SEC in 2021, he holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science and an MBA in accounting and finance, both from UCLA. He served on the board of the UCLA Alumni Association from 2008 to 2012. The old page's description of a separate master's degree from "the University of California" was a garbled version of these facts.

Career

The SEC filing gives a detailed history of his work:

WhiteStone has advised U.S. government agencies on more than $50 billion of advisory transactions, asset sales and securitizations, according to the filing. It has since shifted toward alternative investment management, with a focus on structured credit, affordable housing and private equity.

The Everest Consolidator SPAC

The old title called him an "Everest Consolidator", as if that were a job. Everest Consolidator Acquisition Corporation was a special purpose acquisition company launched in 2021 by Adam Dooley to buy a business in wealth management. It raised $172.5 million in its November 2021 IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, WealthManagement.com reported. Maillian was one of its independent directors, according to the filing and Embarc.

In May 2023 the SPAC agreed to combine with Unifund, a Cincinnati consumer debt servicer, at an enterprise value of $238 million, SPACInsider reported. The old page said Maillian began his career at Unifund; that was wrong. Unifund was the SPAC's merger target decades after his career began.

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Brian Maillian's wife, Beverly Johnson

Maillian is married to Beverly Johnson, the model who in 1974 became the first Black woman on the cover of U.S. Vogue. Johnson revealed in January 2024 that the two had married in Las Vegas on October 13, 2023, her birthday, after a long relationship, People reported. Johnson said Maillian had wanted a large wedding but she preferred something small, and the ceremony was arranged within two days. The couple had announced their engagement in 2020.

The old page's description of their marriage as having lasted "several years" before that was not accurate. His age, height and weight were also listed without any source, and have been removed.

How this page was checked

Career and education details come from an SEC registration statement that Maillian signed off on as a director. The SPAC's history comes from trade press. His marriage comes from People. Anything we could not trace to one of these, including the income table and the net worth figure, is no longer on the page.