- Bruce Wasserstein
Bruce Wasserstein (born December 25, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American investment banker and businessman. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, and is currently the Chairman and CEO of Lazard LLC. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Morris Wasserstein, a wealthy textile executive, and his wife, Lola Schleifer, Wasserstein is one of five children. - Nick Leeson
Nicholas Leeson (English, born February 25, 1967) is a former derivatives trader whose unsupervised speculative trading caused the collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment bank. Leeson was born in Watford, north-west of London. He attended Parmiter's School. After leaving school in the early 1980s, Nick landed a job as a clerk with royal bank Coutts, followed by a string of jobs with other banks, … - John J. Mack
John J. Mack (1944 -) (born Machoul) is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of investment bank Morgan Stanley. He returned to the company on June 30, 2005 to replace Phil Purcell, who had become CEO after the 1997 merger of Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter, of which Purcell was already CEO. - Felix Rohatyn
Felix G. Rohatyn (born May 29, 1928 in Vienna, Austria) is an American businessman and investment banker and has also served in public service. He is divorced from his first wife with whom he had three children, and has since become married to Elizabeth Fly Rohatyn. - Susan Decker
Susan L. Decker is the President of Yahoo! Inc.. Previously she was director of Costco Corporation. She graduated from Tufts University with Bachelor of Science in computer science and economics. She then graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School. Susan Decker is on the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway, Intel and Costco. - Stephen Friedman
Stephen Friedman, born December_21, 1937, is the current Chairman of the United States President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He was nominated on October 27, 2005 to replace Brent Scowcroft in the position. Friedman graduated from Cornell University in 1959, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1962. He worked for much of his career with investment bank Goldman Sachs, … - Richard Holbrooke
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (born April 24, 1941) is an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, Peace Corps official, and investment banker. He is also the only person to have held the Assistant Secretary of State position for two different regions of the world (Asia and Europe). From 1993-1994, he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany. Although long well-known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, … - Martin Siegel
Martin Siegel was a star investment banker who became embroiled in the insider trading scandals of the 1980s, alongside Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken. He attended Harvard Business School before working at Kidder Peabody and Drexel Burnham Lambert. He was lauded in the banking industry as a leading expert in defensive tactics for avoiding hostile takeovers. - Victor Niederhoffer
Victor Niederhoffer, a well known hedge fund manager, champion squash player and statistician, studied statistics and economics at Harvard University (B.A. 1964) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. 1969). He was a finance professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1967-1972). In 1965, while still at college he co-founded with Frank Cross a company called Niederhoffer, Cross and Zeckhauser, Inc., … - Bethany McLean
Bethany McLean (born 1970) is a senior editor and business writer for Fortune magazine and is best known as the co-author, with Fortune colleague Peter Elkind, of "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" (ISBN 1591840082), exposing the corrupt business practices of Enron officials. - Marcus Goldman
Marcus Goldman (1821-1904) was a German-American businessman and entrepreneur. He was born in what is now Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1848. He was one of the original founders of Goldman Sachs, which today is one of the world's largest global investment banks. - Alan Greenberg
Alan C. Greenberg is Chairman of the Executive Committee of The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. He served as Chairman of the Board of Bear Stearns from 1985 to 2001, and as its CEO from 1978 to 1993. Greenberg serves also as a director of Bear Stearns and a non-executive director and of Viacom. - Richard Marin
Richard A. Marin (born ca. 1953) is an American investment banker at the New York investment bank Bear Stearns. Since he was ousted from his position as the head of asset management twenty-four hours after his blog was publicized, he is probably the highest earning individual, as of June 2007, to have lost their job by being dooced (i.e., to lose one's job by maintaining a blog and discussing one's job in that blog). - Christer Zetterberg
Christer Zetterberg (born 1941) is a Swedish businessman who is the current Chairman of investment bank Carnegie. Christer Zetterberg graduated with a degree in business. After starting his career in the Swedish paper industry, he became CEO of the state-owned "PK-Banken" (now a part of Nordea) in 1988. As such he took part in buying Carnegie from Erik Penser. In 1990 he moved to one of the most prestigious jobs in Swedish industry at that time - CEO of Volvo. - Andrew Gowers
Andrew Gowers (1957 -) was appointed editor of the Financial Times in October 2001. He left this post in November 2005 due to disagreements over strategy with the Financial Times' owner, Pearson PLC. In 2006 he accepted a job offer from Lehman Brothers, the US-based global investment bank, to work in corporate communications. After graduating from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Gowers began his journalistic career in 1980 when he joined Reuters as a graduate trainee. - Ferdinand Pecora
Ferdinand J. Pecora was an American lawyer and judge who became famous in the 1930s as Chief Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. Ferdinand Pecora was born in Nicosia, Sicily, the son of Louis Pecora and Rosa Messina who emigrated to the United States and New York City with his parents. He earned a law degree from the New York Law School and eventually worked as an assistant district attorney. - André Meyer
André Meyer was a French-born Jewish Wall Street investment banker. André Benoit Mathieu Meyer was born in Paris to a low-income family. As a boy, he began following the workings of the stock market and out of necessity left school at age sixteen to work as a messenger at the Paris Bourse. - Robert Lehman
Robert Lehman was an American banker. Born in New York City, he was the son of Philip Lehman (1861-1947), head of Lehman Brothers investment bank. A 1913 graduate of Yale University, when his father retired in 1925 "Bobbie" Lehman assumed the leadership role of the family-owned business. He took over the bank during a time when, like competitors Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers was essentially a one-office firm. - Peter George Peterson
Peter George Peterson (born June 5, 1926) is an American businessman, investment banker, fiscal conservative, author, and politician whose most prominent political position was as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972 to February 1, 1973. He is Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Senior Chairman of the private equity firm, the Blackstone Group. His net worth is $1.9 Billion. - Dharshini David
Dharshini David, economist and news presenter, was born and raised in London, England to parents originally from Sri Lanka. David joined the BBC network in 2000 as a economics and business reporter working on many BBC TV and radio news programmes. She can be seen presenting on "BBC News 24" in the United Kingdom, and elsewhere on its international counterpart "BBC World". She has also presented for the BBC's current affairs series "Panorama", … - Michael Forsyth Baron Forsyth of Drumlean
Michael Bruce Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, PC, (born 16 October 1954) is a Conservative & Unionist Party politician in the United Kingdom. Born Michael Bruce Forsyth, he served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1995 to 1997, during which he led a high profile but ultimately unsuccessful campaign against the opposition parties' plans to establish a devolved Scottish Parliament. - Gordon Macklin
Gordon S. Macklin (1928 - January 30 2007) was an American businessman. He was the first President and CEO of the NASDAQ from 1971 to 1987. He was also a board member of WorldCom from 1998 to its collapse in 2002. Macklin was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Shaker Heights. He graduated with a BA in economics from Brown University in 1950, and returned to Cleveland to work for McDonald & Company Securities, where he later became a partner. - John D. Hertz
John Daniel Hertz was an American businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and philanthropist. Born Sandor Herz in the village of Sklabiňa, Slovakia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Czechoslovakia, he emigrated at a young age to the United States. He founded the Yellow Cab Company in Chicago in 1915 as a way to provide transportation at a modest price. - Pierre David-Weill
Pierre David-Weill was a French investment banker. Born Pierre Sylvain Désiré Gérard David-Weill in Paris, France, he was the son of Flora Raphael and David David-Weill (1871-1952), Chairman of Lazard Frères. He followed in his father's footsteps and in 1927 became a partner in the Paris office of the family's bank at the time under the direction of the brilliant Raymond Philippe. In 1932 Pierre David-Weill married Berthe Haardt with whom he had a son, … - Don Schlesinger
Don Schlesinger is a gaming mathematician, author, lecturer and player who specializes in the casino game of blackjack. His work in the field has spanned almost three decades. He is the author of the book "Blackjack Attack - Playing the Pros' Way", currently in its third edition, which is considered one of the most sophisticated theoretical and practical studies of the game to date. - Philip Hollobone
Philip Thomas Hollobone (born November 7, 1964) is a British politician and is both a Conservative Member of Parliament for the Kettering constituency (since the 2005 general election) and a member of Kettering Borough Council for the Buccleuch ward (since 2003). Hollobone was educated at Dulwich College, London and the Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1984 he worked as a voluntary teacher in Honduras. - Alfred Berkeley
Alfred R. Berkeley is an American businessman who served as President and later Vice-Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., from June 1996 until August 2003. Before Nasdaq, Berkeley was a General Partner and then a Managing Director of Alex. Brown & Sons, an investment bank. He was a Captain in the United States Air Force from 1968 to 1972. - Enric Bernat
Enric Bernat (October 20, 1923 - December 27, 2003) was the founder of the Chupa Chups lollipop company. Bernat was the child of a confectioner family in the third generation and started his working life in his parents' cake shop. In the early 1950s he went to north Spain to revive an apple jam factory. As he introduced later his idea of lollipops to the investors, they left. Bernat took over the company in 1958 and renamed it to Chupa Chups. - Khaled Edward Blair
Khaled Edward Blair was born in London, England in 1975, to Douglas Blair Q.C. and his wife Diana. - Archibald Mitchelson
Sir Archibald Mitchelson, 1st Baronet (died December 1945) was a British investment banker. He was chairman of Mitchelson Partners Ltd, as well as D. Davis & Sons Ltd, the shipbuilders J. Samuel White & Co Ltd, Old Silkstone Collieries Ltd, Admiralty Collieries Ltd, North's Navigation Collieries Ltd, Wharncliffe Collieries Ltd, Yorkshire Collieries Ltd, Great Universal Stores Ltd, Anglo-Continental Guano Works Ltd, Pangnga River Tin Concessions Ltd, Genatosan Ltd, … - Imran Riffat
Imran Riffat , Senior Director and CFO, Synergos - Drew Cushing
Recruited to the Bay Area 3 years ago, orginally from Chicago suburbs. Enjoy meeting new quality poeople for work or personal. Current role requires networking with VPs of HR, CFOs, Controllers, & Risk Managers. LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/drewcushing. - Jenny Harper
I am a beautiful disaster! I am clumsy, complicated and confusing...... oh and did I mention a little crazy? Overwhelmed and understanding. I over think everything, with the intent of finding out nothing. I wear my heart on my sleeve, but sometimes I cover it with a jacket. All I want out of people is the truth no matter how it feels. - Jessica Higgs
I like to have fun, I like to laugh and just enjoy being alive. I have a thing for traveling to places I've never been to before. I'de write more but I lack the desire to put my autobiography online. :) - Alex
work hard play hard. usually work 12-14 hrs a day. out on fri/sat nights. i love to eat. love houston's, townhall, boulevard, ozumo, lime, tangerine, house of prime rib, ruth chris, rubicon, fringale, coco500 and citizen thai for dinner, swan's oyster depot for...oysters, de lucca's, mama's for breafast (the best meal of the day). want to try myth, slanted door, gary danko, tahich grill, farallon, el raigon, chow, bacar, dottie's, scott howard. - Edward E. Kaufman
Mr. Edward Kaufman , of Wilmington, Delaware, was appointed to the Broadcasting Board of Governors in 1995. He is President of Public Strategies; a political and management consulting firm. Since 1991, Mr. Kaufman has been a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University and The Sanford Institute of Public Policy. From 1973 to 1994, he served as Administrative Assistant and Executive Assistant to United States Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. - Ronald Johan
umm, just read my testimonial if you want to know more about me... =) - Phil Li
Chilled and Relaxed. Movies, travel and exciting adventures!! - Amanda Palek
- Michel Amsalem
Michel A. Amsalem currently serves as a director of Electronic Sensor Technology. Mr. Amsalem has served as a director of Electronic Sensor Technology since September 7, 2006.
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