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  1. Stan O'Neal

    E. Stanley "Stan" O'Neal is the present Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was a member of the board of directors of General Motors from 2001 through 2006.

  2. Henry Blodget

    Henry Blodget is CEO of Cherry Hill Associates, LLC, an Internet research and consulting firm. He serves as an advisor to several Internet companies, edits an award-winning blog, Internet Outsider , and is a frequent contributor to Slate , Newsweek International , The New York Times , and other publications. He is the author of The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing .

  3. David Komansky

    David H. Komansky (born 1939 in Mount Vernon, New York) who became chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch & Company in 1997. Komansky grew up in a family of Russian Jewish immigrants and Irish Catholics. He joined the U.S. Coast Guard before getting a degree from the University of Miami in 1965. Komansky joined Merrill Lynch in 1968 as a broker and became a regional director in 1981 and an executive vice president in 1990.

  4. Suleiman Kerimov

    Suleiman Kerimov (born 1966) is a Russian billionaire and known as "Russia's Richest Civil Servant". He was born in Derbent, Dagestan and is a member of the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party. He is listed as #35 on Forbes' World's Richest People, though there seems to be controversy over this ranking since the assets appear to have been financed by significant debts about which no public disclosure has been made.

  5. John Moore

    John Colinton Moore (born 16 November 1936), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives for over 25 years, and Defence Minister from 1998 to 2001. Moore was born in Rockhampton, Queensland. He was raised on a ranch (or cattle station) west of Bowen. His early education was through the Australian correspondence system used for isolated families. He finished his secondary education at The Southport School, …

  6. Laurence D. Fink

    Laurence D. Fink is the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock, Inc. Popularly known as Larry, he started his career at First Boston upon graduating from the University of California Los Angeles. Larry earned an MBA at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management (then known simply as the UCLA Graduate School of Management) in 1976. After moving on to heading First Boston's Bond Department, …

  7. Joe Moglia

    Joe Moglia is the current CEO of TD Ameritrade, the largest online discount brokerage firm in the world. Born in Queens, New York, Moglia was a football coach for 16 years, finishing as a Dartmouth College assistant from 1981-1983. After the 1983 football season ended, Moglia decided to take a break from coaching and to try out the business world and Wall Street. He decided to give it a three-year time frame to see if he would be refreshed and ready to go back to coaching.

  8. 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.

  9. William J. McDonough

    William J. McDonough served as the eighth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for ten years--from July 19, 1993 to June 10, 2003. On June 11, 2003, he became the Chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

  10. David Dorman

    David W. Dorman (born 1954 in Georgia) is an American Telecommunications executive, currently serving on the board of Motorola. In 2000, he took on the task of rebuilding AT&T, whose total stock value had fallen from a high of $110 billion to a low of less than $11 billion. Prior to SBC Communications's acquisition of AT&T Corp. on 18 November, 2005, Dorman was chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T.

  11. Judith Mayhew

    Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, DBE (b. 1950) is a New Zealand-born lawyer & academic. Born and educated in New Zealand, Judith Mayhew graduated LLM from Otago University, where she lectured before moving to the UK as a lecturer in law at King's College, University of London where she set up and became Director of the Anglo French Law Degree (Sorbonne), the first joint degree in Europe. In 1989, Judith entered private practice as an employment lawyer, …

  12. Dennis Levine

    Dennis Levine (born 1953) was a prominent player in the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the mid-1980s. As a managing director at Drexel Burnham Lambert, he was charged with insider trading by then U.S Attorney Rudy Giuliani, eventually leading investigators to the arrest of Ivan Boesky. Levine grew up in a middle-class family in Bayside, Queens and graduated from New York City's Baruch College. He became an expert at gathering and trading on insider information.

  13. Jake Zamansky

    Jacob (Jake) H. Zamansky is a securities arbitration attorney based in New York, NY. After working for both the Federal Trade Commission as a federal prosecutor, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Zamansky opened his own firm in 1998. He quickly established a reputation as an investor advocate and expert securities employment lawyer and is noted for his tenacity in dealing with opponents; he even earned the nickname, ’Jaws’ from one of his clients, …

  14. Armando Codina

    Armando Codina, a Cuban-American self-made millionaire, was among the 25 Florida electors for President Bush in the 2000 Presidential Election, and the 27 electors chosen in the 2004 Presidential Election. A prominent figure in Miami politics, Florida Energy, and real estate, Codina has had a close relationship with the Bush family since the 1980 Presidential Campaign of George H. W. Bush. Codina gave Florida Governor Jeb Bush his first job in Miami in the early 1980s, …

  15. Charles O. Rossotti

    Charles O. Rossotti Former Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service Charles O. Rossotti is a Senior Advisor focusing on information technology-related buyout, venture and growth capital investments. He is based in Washington, DC. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Rossotti served from 1997 to 2002 as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the federal agency that serves 132 million individual and six million business taxpayers and employs more than 100,000 people.

  16. Lee Bienstock

    Lee, graduated from Cornell University with distinction and a 4.0 GPA, where he received a B.S. in Policy Analysis and Management. While attending Cornell University, he won business plan writing and marketing competitions, and served as a teaching assistant for courses in Entrepreneurship and Management.

  17. William Schreyer

    In 1997, William Schreyer and his wife, Joan, endowed the Schreyer Honors College at Pennsylvania State University (from where he graduated, class of 1948) through a gift of $30 million. The honors college was created in 1980 as the University Scholars Program. On November 17, 2006, the Schreyers pledged an additional gift of $25 million to the Schreyer Honors College. Having contributed more than $58 million to Penn State, …

  18. Jim Gatheral

    Jim Gatheral is a managing director at Merrill Lynch, and a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He has a PhD in theoretical physics from Cambridge University (1983), and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy from the University of Glasgow. He headed the Equity Quantitative Analytics group in Merrill Lynch from 1997 to 2006, A recurrent subject in his books and papers is the volatility smile, …

  19. Stedman Graham

    As the chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates, a management and marketing consulting company that specializes in the corporate and educational markets. Author of You Can Make It Happen: A Nine Step Plan for Success , his clients include Hyatt Hotels and GlaxoWellcome.

  20. Sid Roth

    Sid Roth is the messianic Jewish host of a weekly national TV program, "It's Supernatural", featuring guests whose experiences include divine visitations, deliverance, and various miracles. He also has a daily radio show called, Messianic Vision, which can be heard on various radio stations across the United States including KLNG ,KLTT, KCNW, KNOF and KXEG.

  21. Halsey Minor

    Halsey Minor (born 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia) is a technology entrepreneur who founded CNET in 1993 (initial plans for the company began in 1992). He is currently investing in new companies via Minor Ventures. Minor attended Woodberry Forest School and the University of Virginia, where he was a member of St. Elmo Hall and received a degree in anthropology. After graduation, he worked at Merrill Lynch, before moving on to start his own company.

  22. Ashwin Navin

    Ashwin Navin is the President and Co-Founder of BitTorrent, Inc. He joined Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent, in 2004 and reportedly handles strategy, business and company-related matters while Cohen focuses on engineering and product development. Before BitTorrent, Navin worked at Yahoo! from 2002 to 2004 in its Corporate Development group which handled corporate strategy and acquisitions.

  23. Carol T. Christ

    Carol Tecla Christ (b. 1944) is a scholar of Victorian literature and English Literature in general. She is past editor of the "Norton Anthology of English Literature", and has served since 2002 as the tenth official president of Smith College. Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts is a small liberal arts college and one of the Seven Sisters. Christ was born in New York City. In 1966, she graduated with high honors from Douglass College, …

  24. George Herbert Walker III

    George Herbert Walker III commonly known as Bert Walker is a former U.S. ambassador to Hungary and the first cousin of former President George Herbert Walker Bush. Walker's grandfather, George Herbert Walker I, was the founder of G. H. Walker & Co., which is now part of the Merrill Lynch conglomerate. He was also served as the President of W.A. Harriman Co. 1916-1929, which is now known as Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. His father George Herbert Walker, Jr.

  25. Peter Magowan

    Peter A. Magowan (born 1942) is the managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants Major League Baseball franchise. Magowan, along with a group of investors, purchased the franchise on January 12, 1993 from the previous owner, Bob Lurie. Before Magowan's consortium stepped in with its offer to buy the team, Lurie had planned to sell the team to a group from St. Petersburg, now home to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Magowan made his mark on the team immediately, …

  26. Jimmy King

    Jimmy Hal King (born August 9 1973 in South Bend, Indiana) is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA. He was part of the famed University of Michigan Wolverines Fab Five along with Ray Jackson and current NBA players Chris Webber, Juwan Howard and Jalen Rose that reached the 1992 & 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games as both Freshmen and Sophomores. He was a starter for teams that reached the tournament four times.

  27. Aulana Peters

    Aulana L. Peters is a director of Northrop Grumman, and holds other corporate positions as well. She was formerly the commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Peters earned degree in philosophy from the College of New Rochelle in New York, and then earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California. Peters joined the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles as an associate in 1973.

  28. Milen Velchev

    Milen Velchev (born 24 March 1966) was the finance minister of Bulgaria from 2001 until 2005. He previously worked in finance at Merrill Lynch in London. He holds M.S. and B.S. degree from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia Bulgaria a B.A. from the University of Rochester and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

  29. Winthrop H. Smith Jr.

    Winthrop H. Smith, Jr. is the former Executive Vice President of Merrill Lynch & Co. and Chairman of Merrill Lynch International, Inc. He spent twenty-eight years at Merrill Lynch beginning in 1974 after receiving an MBA from Wharton Graduate and retiring in January of 2002. He is a 1971 graduate of Amherst College. He began as an investment banking associate and for the last ten years of his career was responsible for Merrill Lynch's growth outside of the United States.

  30. Jim Spanarkel

    This is Jim Spanarkel 's 11th year as analyst for CBS Sports' NCAA Men's Basketball Championship coverage. He also calls regular-season men's games for the CBS Television Network. In addition, Spanarkel works as a co-host on NBA TV and served as an analyst for the NBA's New Jersey Nets television broadcasts.

  31. Mark S. Schweiker

    Mark Steven Schweiker (born January 31 1953) was the governor of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2003. Schweiker, a Republican, become 44th Governor of Pennsylvania on October 5 2001, when his predecessor, Tom Ridge resigned as Governor of Pennsylvania to assume the role of Homeland Security director under President George W. Bush. He had served as acting Governor from September 20 2001 to October 5 2001 during Ridge's transition into his new post.

  32. Suzanne Ciani

    Suzanne Ciani (b. 1946) is a pioneer in electronic music and one of the few women to blaze a trail in the genre. She received classical music training at Wellesley College and obtained her M.A. in music in 1970 at University of California, Berkeley where she met and was influenced by the idiosyncratic synthesizer designer Don Buchla. In 1974 she formed her own company, Ciani/Musica, and, using a Buchla Analog Modular Synthesizer, …

  33. Suze Orman

    Suze Orman has been called "a force in the world of personal finance" and a "one-woman financial advice powerhouse" by USA Today . A two-time Emmy Award-winning television host, New York Times mega bestselling author, magazine and online columnist, writer/producer, and one of the top motivational speakers in the world today, Orman is undeniably America's most recognized expert on personal finance.

  34. John A. Mulheren

    John A. Mulheren, Jr. (June 20, 1949 in Red Bank, New Jersey — December 15, 2003 in Rumson, New Jersey) was an American stock and option trader and philanthropist. Born in Red Bank, New Jersey, Mulheren was a Wall Street icon who earned millions in the 1980's. Known for his charismatic personality, Mulheren became a Merrill Lynch managing director at age 25 and later became the chief executive of Bear Wagner Specialists, one of seven NYSE specialist trading firms.

  35. C. John McCloskey

    C. John McCloskey, III is a Catholic priest and member of Opus Dei. He is the former director of the Catholic Information Center of the Archdiocese of Washington. He worked on Wall Street - Citibank and Merrill Lynch - for some years before becoming a priest, being ordained in 1981 by Roger Cardinal Etchegaray. Fr. McCloskey is perhaps best-known for having helped many people convert to Catholicism, including Sam Brownback, Robert Bork, Lawrence Kudlow, and Dr.

  36. James Parrish

    James Herbert Parrish, Jr. (May 19, 1968 in Baltimore, Maryland - March 10, 2004 in Dallas, Texas) was a former NFL lineman and a member of the 1994 Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys. The 6'6", 320-pound tackle out of Temple University played for the Indianapolis Colts, the San Diego Chargers, the San Francisco 49ers, the Dallas Cowboys, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the New York Jets, the Chicago Bears, and the Kansas City Chiefs.

  37. Irene Ng

    Irene Ng (born Sze Ng on July 30, 1974 in Penang, Malaysia) is a Chinese American actress best known for playing Shelby Woo on Nickelodeon's "The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo", which aired from 1996 to 1999. Ng moved from Malaysia to Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1989, at age 15, with her parents, sister and brother. She attended Allentown's William Allen High School.

  38. Bernard Ramsey

    Bernard Bruce Ramsey (November 10, 1915 - July 11, 1996) was an executive with Merrill Lynch, a brokerage firm, but is best known for his philanthropic contributions to the University of Georgia. A native of Macon, Georgia, United States, Ramsey graduated Lanier High School before moving on to the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, where he attended what is now known as the Terry College of Business and received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Commerce in 1937.

  39. Ian Lewis

    Ian Lewis is the Director of the University of Cambridge Computing Service. Educated at Queen Mary College, London and awarded a PhD at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, he went on to become Global CIO for Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch before returning to the University of Cambridge. He is also a member of the boards of UKERNA and Computacenter.

  40. George Murnane III

    George Murnane III is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Mesa Air Group. Mr. Murnane was appointed Executive Vice President of the Company effective December 2001 and Chief Financial Officer in January 2003. Mr. Murnane served as a director of Mesa from June 1999 until October 2003. From 1996 to December 2001, Mr. Murnane was a Director and Executive Vice President of International Airline Support Group, Inc., …

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