- Aaron Bank
Aaron Bank (November 23, 1902-April 1, 2004) was the founder of the US Army Special Forces, commonly called Green Berets. - Robert Zoellick
Robert Zoellick also serves or has served as a board member on a number of private and public organizations: Alliance Capital , Said Holdings , and the Precursor Group ; a member of the advisory boards of Enron and Viventures , a venture fund; as a Director of the Aspen Institute 's Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations , the German Marshall Fund of the United States , and the World Wildlife Advisory Council ; and a member of Secretary William Sebastian Cohen 's Defense Policy Board . - Ernő Bánk
Ernő Bánk was a Hungarian teacher painter noted for his minitature portraits. He was an exhibitor member of the Association of Hungarian Watercolour and Pastel Painters. Bánk originally received an elementary teaching degree and became a qualified teacher for secondary education in his younger years. In 1915 he received the doctoral title as a geography and history graduate at the Budapest Pázmány Péter University. - Frank Bank
Frank Bank is an American former actor, known for his role as Clarence 'Lumpy' Rutherford on TV's "Leave It to Beaver". As of the mid 2000s, Bank is a municipal bonds broker in Los Angeles, California. His autobiography, “Call Me Lumpy: My Leave It To Beaver Days and Other Wild Hollywood Life” was published in 2002. - Melissa Bank
Melissa Bank is an American author. She has published two novels, The Girls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing and The Wonder Spot. She has also published short stories and was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. The Girls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing was a bestseller in both the United States and the United Kingdom, garnering mostly positive reviews. A movie adaptation is currently being filmed starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. - 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. - Jamie Dimon
James "Jamie" Dimon (born March 13, 1956) became CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. on January 1, 2006. He succeeded William B. Harrison, Jr., who became the company's chairman. Dimon succeeded Harrison as Chairman of JPMorgan on January 1, 2007, following Harrison's retirement. - John Gieve
Sir John Gieve was appointed Deputy Governor in Jan. 2006, with specific responsibility for the Bank's Financial Stability work. - Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett is an American developmental economist. He was born in Utah in 1959 and raised in Boise, Idaho. He graduated from Brigham Young University, majoring in Economics, after serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Argentina (1978-1980). He was a contributor to the first Copenhagen Consensus. He currently works for the World Bank. - Alexi Giannoulias
State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias delivers his inaugural address in Springfield. ... Springfield -- Alexi Giannoulias was sworn in as the Illinois State Treasurer on Monday, the first Democrat to hold the office in 12 years. - Jack Paar
Jacques Harold "Jack" Paar (May 1, 1918 - January 27, 2004) was an American radio and television talk show host. - Keith Henson
Keith Henson On July 19, 2000, Keith Henson was arrested by the Riverside County, California, Sheriff’s Office for making terrorist threats on the Internet against the Church of Scientology. On April 26, 2001, a jury found Henson guilty of having committed a hate crime under section 422.6 of the California Penal Code . Henson was scheduled to appear for sentencing on May 16, 2001, but failed to appear and the Judge was forced to issue a warrant for his arrest. - John Crow
John Crow , a former Governor of the Bank of Canada, is the President of J&R Crow Inc., an economic and financial consulting firm, and serves on the boards of several public and private organizations. Prior to his tenure as Governor between 1987 and 1994, Mr. Crow held a variety of successively senior positions at the Bank of Canada. - Howard Flight
Howard Emerson Flight (born 16 June 1948) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs from 1997 to 2005. He held several Shadow posts: Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury 1999-2001, Shadow Paymaster General to 2002, then Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Flight was educated at Brentwood School, Brentwood, Essex, Magdalene College in Cambridge University, … - Sibylla Budd
Sibylla Budd is an Australian actress best known for her role in "The Secret Life Of Us" which screened on Australian television. Sibylla graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999. The following year she appeared in Australian Broadcasting Corporation soap opera "Something in the Air" playing Sharon. In 2001 she was the leading female in "The Bank" as Michelle Roberts, and played Sam Cooper in the TV mini-series "The Farm". - Chris Swecker
Chris Swecker (born July 14, 1956 in El Ferrol, Spain) was Assistant Director of the FBI until Spring 2007 - Graham Towers
Graham Ford Towers, CC (September 29, 1897 - December 4, 1975) was the first Governor of the Bank of Canada from 1934 to 1954. Born in Montreal, Quebec, educated at St. Andrew's College , he graduated from McGill University in 1919. During World War II, he was Chairman of the Foreign Exchange Control Board and Chairman of the National War Finance Committee. - David A. Dodge
Mr. Dodge was appointed Governor of the Bank of Canada on 1 February 2001, for a term of seven years. As Governor, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank. A native of Toronto, Mr. Dodge received a bachelor's degree (Honours) in Economics from Queen's University, and a PhD in Economics from Princeton (1972). - Joseph Dixon
Joseph Dixon (1799-1869) was an American inventor. He made important improvements in photography, lithography, bank-note printing, steel smelting, and lens grinding. He was by turns a shoemaker, printer, lithographer, wood engraver, and physician, and gained wealth from his crucible works, established at Salem, Mass., in 1827 and moved to Jersey City in 1847. - Harold Luntz
Harold 'Harry' Luntz is an Australian law professor. He is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on torts law. He began publishing in academic journals in the early 1960s. Some of his appointments: * 1970 - Visiting Associate Professor at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. * 1971 - Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. * 1976 - Professor, University of Melbourne. * 1986-88, Dean of the Law Faculty, University of Melbourne. - Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss
Afsaneh M. Beschloss , president and chief executive of The Rock Creek Group, serves on the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees. She is chair of the board's Investment Committee and a member of the Transactions Subcommittee and Asset Building and Community Development Committee. From 2001 to 2003, Ms. Beschloss was chief executive and chief investment officer of Carlyle Asset Management Group. - Joseph E. Stiglitz
Economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that the U.S. government should address the mortgage crisis by providing aid directly to homeowners, rather than to the financial institutions holding their mortgages. - Pierre Fayolle
Pierre Fayolle (France), marié 2 enfants est actuellement Cadre Supérieur au Crédit Agricole Sud Rhone Alpes. Il est aussi professeur de Déontologie à l'Université Lyon 3. Il pratique la course à pied (endurance) ; le parapente, et outre le bricolage fait de la composition musicale (voir site sfr ci contre) assistée par ordinateur sous le nom de scène : PIFAJUVA. Disponible aussi : arbre généalogique des ascendants - Ashley Bank
- Ken Lewis
Kenneth D. Lewis (Born 9 April 1947 in Meridian, Mississippi) is the current Chairman, CEO, and President of Bank of America, one of the largest banks in the United States, positions he has held since the retirement of Hugh McColl in 2001. He joined the organization (at that time NCNB) as a credit analyst in 1969, and served as the head of both international and domestic operations during his tenure at NationsBank. He is a graduate of Georgia State University, … - Gerald Howarth
James Gerald Douglas Howarth known as Gerald Howarth (born 12 September 1947, Hurley, Berkshire) is a British politician in the Conservative Party. He is the Member of Parliament for Aldershot. On the right-wing of the Conservative party, he serves as Shadow Defence Minister. He had previously been MP for Cannock and Burntwood from 1983 to 1992, when he lost his seat at the General Election that year. - Paul Dundes Wolfowitz
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships. A former academic, diplomat, political and military strategist and policymaker, and former American government official, most recently, he served as president of the World Bank Group for two years. As U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense during the Presidency of George W. Bush, … - Hugh McColl
Hugh McColl (born June 18, 1935) is an American banker who was a driving force behind the consolidation that characterizes the commercial banking industry today. He was born and raised in Bennettsville, S.C., and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. McColl then joined the United States Marine Corps. After serving a tour of duty, approximately two years later, … - Amadeo Giannini
Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949), born in San Jose, California, was one of the founders of the Bank of America. Giannini's parents were Italian, from Liguria near Genoa, immigrants to the United States. He attended Heald College in San Francisco, California. Giannini opened the Bank of Italy in a former San Francisco saloon on 17 October, 1904. Deposits on that first day totaled $8,780. An early difficulty to overcome was the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. - Donald Roller Wilson
Donald Roller Wilson (born November 23, 1938) is an artist who uses some unique items in his paintings, such as dogs and cats, chimpanzees, dill pickles, wooden matches, olives, asparagus stalks, and even cigarettes. He paints in oils, in a very polished, super-realistic style, using the same techniques used by the Old Masters. He was born in Houston, Texas and is based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. According to the "New York Times", "Donald Roller Wilson's goofy, … - Jan Lorenc
Jan Lorenc is a Polish-American designer. Born in Jaśliska, Poland in 1954, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 8. He formed Lorenc Design in 1978 in Chicago, IL and later moved it to Atlanta in 1981. He renamed the firm Lorenc+Yoo Design with partner Chung Youl Yoo in 1998. - Alex Sink
Adelaide "Alex" Sink is Chief Financial Officer of Florida. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Sink is a former president of the Florida Banking Division of NationsBank (now Bank of America). She was appointed by former Governor Lawton Chiles to the Commission on Government Accountability to the People, and also served on Governor Chiles’ Commission on Education. - George Burnham
George Burnham (December 28, 1868-June 28, 1939) was a banker and Republican politician from San Diego, California. Burnham was born 1868 in London, England to James and Maria Ann Burnham. He immigrated in 1881 to the United States with his parents, who settled in Spring Valley, Minnesota. He attended public schools in London and Minnesota. Burnham worked as a clerk 1884-1886, then moved to Jackson, Minnesota in 1887 where he entered the retail shoe business. - Hewitt Crane
Hewitt D. Crane is an American engineer best known for his pioneering work at SRI International on ERMA (Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting), for Bank of America; magnetic digital logic; neuristor logic; the development of an eye-movement tracking device; and a pen-input device for computers. After a stint in the U.S. Navy as a radar technician, he worked as a computer maintenance technician for IBM (1949-1952), … - Walter E. Massey
Dr. Walter E. Massey, an American educator, physicist, and business leader, was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi April 5 1938. Massey graduated from Morehouse College in 1958 and received his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. He served as the ninth president of Morehouse College from 1995 to 2007. Massey has served as the director of the National Science Foundation under George H. W. Bush and Senior Provost of the University of California System. - Samuel P. Colt
Samuel Pomeroy Colt (1852-1921) was an industrialist and politician from Rhode Island. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey on January 10, 1852, the youngest of six children born to Christopher Colt (brother to arms maker, Samuel Colt) and Theodora Goujand DeWolf Colt of Bristol, Rhode Island. His friends and family called him "Pom." In 1875, he was appointed aide-de-camp to Rhode Island Governor Henry Lippitt, … - Jerre Noe
Jerre Noe (February 1, 1923 - November 12, 2005) was an American computer scientist. In the 1950s, he led the technical team for the ERMA project, the Bank of America's first venture into computerized banking. In 1968 he became the first chair of the University of Washington's Computer Science Group, which later evolved into the Computer Science and Engineering Department. - Emil Dechebal Matasareanu
Emil Dechebal Matasareanu is best known as one of two men who robbed a Bank of America in North Hollywood, California, on February 28, 1997. He was born in Romania and grew up in Altadena. Following the robbery, he and his accomplice, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr., participated in a massive daylight shootout with police. As they were occupied with robbing the bank and keeping control of their hostages, a large number of police officers gathered outside, … - Deborah Batts
The Honorable Deborah A. Batts (born 13 April 1947) is a U.S. federal judge, currently serving on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She is the first and, as of 2006, the only openly LGBT person to have served as a judge of the United States federal courts. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was educated at Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School. - Gunnar S. Overstrom Jr.
Gunnar S. Overstrom, Jr. was a vice chairman of FleetBoston Financial (now a part of Bank of America) and the former president and chief operating officer of the Shawmut National Corporation. As a vice chairman of Fleet, Overstrom was instrumental in building the corporation's asset management portfolio and its brokerage and securities business. He spearheaded the acquisition of Quick and Reilly as well as the purchase of Columbia Asset Management.
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