Murray Sawyer is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Westover Capital Advisors, LLC, which he launched in 1999 with a clear vision: to provide thoughtful, highly personalized, multigenerational wealth management. He remains actively engaged in all aspects of the firm and takes particular pride in Westover’s collaborative culture and its team of credentialed, experienced advisors. Together, they guide clients through complex investment, wealth management, and tax decisions with a long-term, fiduciary-first perspective.
Murray brings decades of experience across estate planning, investment management, and business leadership. Before founding Westover, he practiced law for more than thirty-five years as the founding and managing partner of Sawyer, Akin & Herron, P.A. His legal work focused on estate planning and the design of trusts and structures to help families articulate, preserve, and transfer wealth across generations. He also oversaw his firm’s retirement plans, further shaping his disciplined approach to investment oversight and fiduciary responsibility.
Earlier in his career, Murray served as an elected member of the New Castle County Council from 1981 to 1983. In that role, he participated in county-level budgeting, policy development, and constituent representation—an experience that continues to inform his commitment to prudent stewardship, thoughtful decision-making, and accountability.
An entrepreneur throughout his career, Murray founded American Incorporators, Ltd. nearly fifty years ago. The company provides incorporation and corporate filing services nationwide, and he continues to serve as its Chairman.
Murray’s commitment to education and philanthropy is central to his life’s work. Together with his wife, Randy, he founded the Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation and the Sawyer Scholars Program at Tower Hill School, a merit-based initiative designed to support and inspire future leaders. He has established and supported scholarship programs across private schools, colleges, and graduate institutions. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Tower Hill School and has served for more than three decades as a Trustee of the Ellice and Rosa McDonald Foundation.
His broader civic leadership includes service as President of the Rotary Club of Wilmington, where he received the John F. Newnam Award for exemplifying “Service Above Self.” He is also a past President of the Lincoln Club of Delaware, a former twenty-year board member of the Pilot School, and a former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of the University of North Carolina Libraries. He has held appointments to the Delaware Supreme Court Board of Professional Responsibility and the Delaware Health Facilities Authority.
Murray is a graduate of Wilmington Friends School and Phillips Exeter Academy. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed his senior honors thesis on the artist Andrew Wyeth, and a law degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law.
Outside of his professional and philanthropic endeavors, Murray enjoys traveling, reading biographies, following University of North Carolina athletics, and spending time with his wife, children, and ten grandchildren, particularly on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
