The Devil's Casino_ Friendship, Betrayal - Vicky Ward [1]
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Paradise Lost by John Milton, 1:254-255
Cast of Characters
Key Players
Richard S. "Dick" Fuld Jr. , Lehman's chief executive officer. An underachiever in
youth, Fuld got a job trading commercial paper at Lehman in 1969.
Joseph M. "Joe" Gregory, president and chief operating officer. Gregory started at
Lehman in 1968 as a summer intern when he was 16 years old. He used to cut the lawn of
Lehman's top trader, Lew Glucksman.
T. Christopher "Chris" Pettit, Lehman president and chief operating officer. A West
Point graduate, decorated Vietnam veteran. He joined the firm in 1977 and rose through
its ranks--until, that is, 1997.
Lehman 1984 -1994, the Slamex Years
Board Members of Either Amex or Shearson Noted in the Book
David Culver
John Byrne
President Gerald Ford
Richard Furlaud
Henry Kissinger
Dina Merrill (actress)
CEOs
Howard L. "H" Clark
Peter A. Cohen
Lewis L. "Lew" Glucksman
Harvey S. Golub
J. Tomlinson "Tom" Hill
James D. Robinson
Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill
Managing Directors
James S. Boshart III
Herbert Freiman
Ronald A. Gallatin
Jeffrey Lane
Robert "Bob" Millard
The Hon. Peregrine Moncreiffe
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt V
Peter J. Solomon
Executives
Jim Carbone, senior deputy to Chris Pettit
Steve Carlson, head of emerging markets
John F. Cecil, chief financial officer (later also chief administrative officer)
Steven "Steve" Carlson, global emerging markets
John Coghlan, managing director of fixed income
Leo Corbett, deputy head of equities
Martha Dillman, sales
Robert A. "Bob" Genirs, Shapiro's successor as CAO
Nancy Hament, human resources
Allan Kaplan, banking
Bruce Lakefield
Stephen "Stevie" Lessing, senior deputy to Tom Tucker
Robert Matza, Stewart's successor as CFO
Paul Newmark, senior vice president and treasurer, Lehman Commercial
Paper Inc. (LCPI)
Michael Odrich, chief of staff to Dick Fuld
Marianne Rasmussen, head of human resources
Thomas Russo, chief legal officer until 2008
Mel Shaftel, chief of investment banking
Robert A. "Bob" Shapiro, chief administrative officer
Richard B. Stewart, chief financial officer
Kim Sullivan, sales
Thomas H. "Tom" Tucker, sales
Jeff Vanderbeek, rose to run all of fixed income, then capital markets
James "Jim" Vinci, Pettit's chief of staff
Paul Williams, equities chief
Lehman 1994-2008: From Independence to Meltdown
Executives
Madeleine Antoncic, head of risk
Steve Berger, briefly co-head of banking
Steven Berkenfeld, global head of legal, compliance, audit
Jasjit "Jesse" Bhattal, replaced Tyree as head of Asia in 2000
Tracy Binkley, head of human resources
Erin Callan, chief financial officer
Steve Carlson, head of emerging markets
Jerry Donnini, head of equities
Eric Felder, replaced Reider
Scott J. Freidheim, office of chairman, later chief administrative officer
Mike Gelband, McDade's successor at fixed income
David Goldfarb, chief financial officer turned chief administrative
officer turned global head of strategic partnerships
Hope Greenfield, chief talent officer
Jeremy Isaacs, head CEO of Lehman Europe from 2000 onward
Bradley Jack, banking, then co-COO
Ted Janulis, head of mortgages
Todd Jorn, hedge funds
Alex Kirk, high-yield business
Fran Kittredge, philanthropy
Bruce Lakefield, Europe until 1999
Ian Lowitt, treasurer, later co-chief administrative officer, then chief
financial officer
Herbert "Bart" McDade, fixed income and later equities
Hugh "Skip" McGee, investment banking
Michael McKeever, briefly co-head of banking
Christian Meissner, Europe
Maureen Miskovic, risk
Andrew Morton, Nagioff's successor in fixed income
Roger Nagioff, European equity derivatives, then Gelband's successor
in fixed income
Chris O'Meara, CFO, then head of risk
Rick Rieder, head of credit
Thomas A. Russo, chief legal counsel
Benoit Savoret, Europe
Robert "Rob" Shafir, global equities
David Steinmetz, Chris Pettit's chief