- Frank Quattrone
Frank Quattrone (born 1956) is a former investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston who helped bring dozens of companies public during the 1990s tech boom, including Netscape, Cisco, and Amazon.com. Later he was prosecuted for interfering with a government probe into Credit Suisse First Boston's behavior in allocating "hot" IPOs. The case was eventually dropped. He was earning roughly $160 million a year during his peak at the firm.
- Henry Paulson
Henry M. Paulson Jr . , CEO, Goldman Sachs CEO Salaries Rose in 2001 While Economy Dipped
- Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis (born 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American contemporary non-fiction author. His bestselling books include "Liar's Poker", "The New New Thing," "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" and "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game". After graduating from the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, he received an art history degree from Princeton University and a masters degree in economics from the London School of Economics.
- Hosni Mubarak
Muhammad Hosni Said Mubarak, Arabic: محمد حسنى سيد مبارك Muḥammad Ḥusnī Mubārak, commonly known as Hosni Mubarak, Arabic: حسنى مبارك Ḥusnī Mubārak (born May 4, 1928) has been the president of Egypt since October 14, 1981. Mubarak was appointed vice-president of the Republic of Egypt after moving up the ranks of the Egyptian Air Force.
- James Wolfensohn
President of the World Bank for the past decade, has confirmed he will retire from his post later this year. He told the ABC television network in the US that the time had come for him to pass on the baton after 10 years at the helm of the global institution. "I had 10 years and I think that's probably enough," the 71-year-old Mr Wolfensohn said. He is due to wrap up his second five-year term as the Washington-headquartered bank's president in June.
- Nancy Kissel
Nancy Kissel (born Nancy Keeshin circa 1964 in Adrian, Michigan) was convicted of the murder of her husband, Robert Kissel in their apartment in Tai Tam, Hong Kong on November 2 2003. Robert Kissel was an investment banker who worked for Merrill Lynch. Nancy Kissel was prominent in the community and frequently helped out at the Hong Kong International School, which her two daughters attended. She was vice-president of the school's parent-teacher board.
- Mary Meeker
Mary G. Meeker (born September ??, 1959 in rural Portland, Indiana, USA) is an influential Wall Street securities analyst and investment banker primarily associated with dot coms and the 1990s internet bubble. Meeker became known as "Queen of the Net" after being dubbed so by "Barron's Magazine" in 1998. Meeker holds a B.A. in psychology from DePauw University (1981) and a M.B.A. in finance from Cornell University (1986).
- Bill Hambrecht
Bill Hambrecht (born 1935) is an American investment banker and chairman of W.R. Hambrecht & Co. which he founded in 1998. He helped persuade Google to use an Internet-based auction for their IPO in 2004, instead of a more traditional method using banks and other financial companies to find buyers. He is credited with popularizing this "open IPO" model, using Dutch auctions to allow anyone, not just investing insiders, to buy stock in an IPO, …
- Arthur Rock
Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is a venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, California. He was an early investor in major firms including Intel, Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Syracuse University in 1948 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1951. Rock started his career in 1951 as a security analyst in New York City, …
- Michel David-Weill
Mr. Michel David-Weill is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Eurazeo, as well as Chairman of the Company's Finance Committee. He was nominated on June 27, 1972. He was until May 2005 Chairman of Lazard LLC, Chairman and Managing Director of Lazard Freres Banque, Chairman and Associated Manager of Maison Lazard SAS. He is Director of Groupe Danone and Gruppo Banca Leonardo Spa, Member of the Supervisory Board of Publicis Group, and Manager of Parteman.
- Steve Preston
Steven C. Preston (born ca. 1961) is the 22nd Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. President George W. Bush nominated him to the post. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent on June 29, 2006, and was sworn in on July 10, 2006. Prior to leading the SBA, he was an American businessman, serving as Executive Vice President of ServiceMaster, Inc. Preston grew up in Janesville, Wisconsin and he attended Parker High School, …
- Ted Ammon
Robert Theodore Ammon (August 30, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - October 20, 2001 in East Hampton, New York) was an American financier and Investment Banker. He became one of the youngest partners at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and was involved in the RJR Nabisco buyout. Ammon graduated from Bucknell University. He then followed his first wife to London, where he worked as a Barrister. They later divorced.
- John Lehman
John F. Lehman, Jr. (born September 14, 1942) is an American investment banker and writer who served as Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan administration and since 2003 has been a member of the 9/11 Commission.
- 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.
- Abby Joseph Cohen
Abby Joseph Cohen 'Abby Joseph Cohen ' ( CFA ) (born 1952 in Queens, New York ) is an American economist and financial analyst on Wall Street . She is a partner and chief U.S. investment strategist at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Ms Cohen earned economics degrees from Cornell University and George Washington University then began her career as an economist in 1973 at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. serving until 1977.
- Hector Sants
Hector Sants is a British investment banker. He was appointed the Financial Services Authority chief in July 2007. Sants was educated at Clifton College (Bristol, England) and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He started his career at Philips & Drew, moving to head its Wall Street section in New York at the age of 30. In 1998, he joined Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. Sants is married with three children and lives in Oxford.
- Linda Davies
Linda Davies is a British author of thriller fiction. Linda Davies read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University graduating in 1985, then worked for seven years as an investment banker in New York, London and Eastern Europe. Inspired by her City career, she left to write her first novel, Nest of Vipers. She spent three years living in Peru, and then moved to London with her husband, merchant banker Rupert Wise, and their two sons Hugh and Tommy.
- Evan G. Galbraith
Evan Griffith Galbraith (born 1928) was the United States Ambassador to France from 1981 to 1985. Galbraith was born in Toledo, Ohio. He is a graduate of Yale University (class of 1950, member of Skull & Bones) and Harvard Law School. He served on active duty in the Navy from 1953 to 1957, attached to the Central Intelligence Agency. From 1960 to 1961, he was the confidential assistant to the Secretary of Commerce.
- Grace Slick
Grace Slick (born October 30, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship, and also as a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s. Slick is considered to be one of the most important musicians in bringing the 1960s psychedelic rock to mainstream appeal. She is known for her witty, influential, thought-provoking lyrics, …
- Jim Moran
James Patrick "Jim" Moran Jr. (born 16 May 1945 in Buffalo, New York) has represented the Eighth Congressional District of Virginia since 1991. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party. His brother, Brian Moran, is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
- Akhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma is an investment banker and fiction writer who was born in Delhi, India; grew up in Edison, New Jersey, and works in New York City. He is the author of one novel, "An Obedient Father," and other works of fiction such as the short story, "If You Sing Like That for Me." Sharma, Akhil. 2000. An Obedient Father. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. _____________ 1995 (May). "If You Sing Like That for Me"— A Short Story. The Atlantic Monthly. 275(5):70-88.
- Frank Gardner
Frank Rolleston Gardner, OBE (born July 31 1961) is a British journalist. He is currently the BBC's Security Correspondent, a post he has held since 2002. Educated at Marlborough College, a boys' independent school in Wiltshire, England, and at the University of Exeter, Gardner cites a meeting with the Arabian explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger in his youth, which led to a life of fascination with the Arab world and a degree in the Arabic language from University of Exeter.
- David Wittig
David Wittig (b. July 29, 1955) is the former chief executive officer of Topeka, Kansas-based Westar Energy, a utility company. Born in Prairie Village, Kansas, Wittig went on to enjoy tremendous success on Wall Street as an investment banker. In 1995, Wittig, having earned millions in New York, was asked to return to his native Kansas as an executive at Western Resources (later re-named Westar Energy). Wittig accepted the invitation, and was CEO by decade's end.
- Paul Mecurio
Paul Mecurio is a Rhode Island-born comedian once featured on Comedy Central Presents. A lawyer by education (graduated from Georgetown University Law Center). After working as an investment banker and merger and acquisitions lawyer, he took up stand-up comedy.
- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Ziad K. Abdelnour (Ziad Khalil Abdelnour) is a New York-based financier and venture capitalist. He is also the founder and president of the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL), an advocacy organization which established the "Middle East Intelligence Bulletin" in 1999, a joint publication of Middle East Forum, founded by Daniel Pipes. Abdelnour was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1961.
- 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).
- Daniel L. Doctoroff
Daniel L. Doctoroff is Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding for the City of New York. Under the leadership of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Doctoroff has overseen one of the city’s most dramatic economic resurgences, spearheading the effort to reverse New York’s fiscal crisis after the attacks of 9/11 through a five-borough economic development strategy. This plan includes the most ambitious land-use transformation in the city’s modern history, …
- E. Roland Harriman
E. Roland Harriman (born Edward Roland Noel Harriman on December 24 1895 in New York City - died on February 16 1978 in Arden, New York) was a financier and philanthropist. For those who were very close to him, his nickname was "Bunny". He was the youngest of five surviving children of Mary Williamson Averell and Edward Henry Harriman, a financier and executive of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad.
- Willard Straight
Willard Dickerman Straight was an American investment banker and diplomat. An orphan, Straight was born in Oswego, New York. He attended Bordentown Military Institute in New Jersey, and in 1897 he enrolled at Cornell University and graduated in 1901 with a degree in architecture. While a student at Cornell, he joined Delta Tau Delta, edited and contributed to several publications, and helped to organize Dragon Day, an annual architecture students' event.
- Alfred Lee Loomis
Alfred Lee Loomis (November 4, 1887-August 11, 1975) was an American lawyer, investment banker, physicist, philanthropist, and patron of scientific research. He established the Loomis Laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, and his role in the development of radar is considered instrumental in the Allied victory in World War II.
- Ted Hartley
Ted Hartley has been a US Navy fighter pilot, an investment banker, an actor, producer, and is currently CEO of RKO Pictures. He is married to actress Dina Merrill.
- Philip Lehman
Philip Lehman (November 9 1861 - March 21 1947) was an American investment banker. Philip Lehman was the son of Irving Lehman and grandson of Emanuel Lehman, a co-founder of Lehman Brothers investment bank. From 1901 to 1925, Philip Lehman was the president of the bank and was one of the first financiers to recognize the potential of issuing stock as a way for new companies to raise capital.
- Casey Wasserman
Casey Wasserman (b. 1974) is an entertainment executive and owner of the Los Angeles Avengers Arena League football team. Born Casey Meyer, he is the son of the Los Angeles socialite and philanthropist Lynne Wasserman. Casey's parents were divorced and he took his mother's maiden name. His sister's name is Carol Ann Leif.
- George O. Gore II
George O. Gore II (born December 15 1981 in Fort Washington, Maryland, USA) is an American actor. He is most recognized for playing the roles of Michael Kyle Jr. on the ABC sitcom "My Wife and Kids", and G Williams on the FOX police drama "New York Undercover". Gore has been acting since the age of four. He made his debut in a Burger King commercial, and soon amassed over 20 national commercials to his credit for such leading brands as Fisher-Price and IBM.
- Paul Deighton
Paul Deighton (born 1956) is a British investment banker and the person chosen to preside over the organisation of the 2012 London Olympics. He was named as chief executive of the London Organising Committee of the Games (LOCOG) on December 19, 2005.
- Ferdinand Eberstadt
Ferdinand Eberstadt (June 19, 1890 - November 11, 1969) was an American lawyer, investment banker and an important policy advisor to the United States government who was instrumental in the creation of the National Security Council. Ferdinand Eberstadt graduated from Princeton University in 1913. After serving overseas in World War I he set up a law practice in New York City, providing legal services to members of the Wall Street financial community.
- Kirbyjon Caldwell
Kirbyjon H. Caldwell is the pastor of the Windsor Village United Methodist Church, a 14,000-member megachurch in Houston, Texas. He is one of President George W. Bush's most influential spiritual advisors.
- Robert Blohm
Robert Blohm (born on May 27, 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American and Canadian investment banker, economist and statistician. He helped expand the Japanese capital market in the 1980s to Canadian governments, corporations, utilities and banks. In the early 1990s he argued widely in the US and Canadian press against the economic feasibility of Quebec's separation from Canada, particularly in a series of opinion articles in The Wall Street Journal.
- Klaus Diederichs
Klaus Diederichs is head of European operations at JPMorgan's investment banking division. He is one of the most influential investment bankers in Europe and the US. He is also on the Executive Committee of JPMorgan.
- 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.