The Devil's Casino_ Friendship, Betrayal - Vicky Ward [2]
Paolo Tonucci, treasurer
C. Daniel Tyree, Asia until 2000
Jeffrey Vanderbeek, head of fixed income turned vice president
George Herbert Walker IV, investment management
Mark Walsh, real estate
Ming Xu, analyst
Lehman Staff of Note
Holly Becker, equities
Marianne Burke, Dick Fuld's secretary
Barbara Byrne, investment banking
Kerrie Cohen, press officer
Andrew Gowers, press officer
Ros L'Esperance, investment banking
Lara Pettit, sales
Marna Ringel, Scott Friedheim's assistant
Craig Schiffer, bond salesman
Peter Sherratt, Europe
Key Lehman Spouses
Celia Felcher Cecil
Isabelle Freidheim
Kathleen Fuld
Teresa Gregory
Niki Golod Gregory
Karin Jack
Sandra Lessing
Martha McDade
Mary Anne Pettit
Michael Thompson, ex-husband of Erin Callan
Heather Tucker
Nancy Dorn Walker
The Original Lehman Brothers
Henry, Emmanuel, and Mayer Lehman, founders
Philip Lehman, managing partner, 1901-1925
Robert "Bobbie" Lehman, took over as head of Lehman from father
Philip in 1925
Industry Players
Gary Barancik, partner, Perella Weinberg Partners
James L. "Jamie" Dimon, chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase
David Einhorn, chairman, Greenlight Capital
Kenneth D. "Ken" Lewis, president, chairman, and CEO, Bank of
America
John Mack, chairman of the board and CEO, Morgan Stanley
Joseph R. "Joe" Perella, chairman, Perella Weinberg Partners
Daniel Pollack, lawyer for Chris Pettit
Robert K. "Bob" Steel, president and chief executive, Wachovia, also
domestic undersecretary at the U.S. Treasury
Min Euoo Sung, CEO, Korea Development Bank
Mark Shafir, partner and senior investment banker, Thomas Weisel
Partners
Bruce Wasserstein, the late chairman and chief executive, Lazard
Andrew Zimmerman, analyst, SAC Capital
Barclays
Archibald Cox Jr., chairman, Barclays Americas
Jerry del Missier, president, Barclays Capital
Robert E. "Bob" Diamond Jr., president and CEO, Barclays Capital
Michael Klein, independent adviser, Barclays
Rich Ricci, chief operating officer, Barclays
John S. Varley, CEO
The Law
H. Rodgin Cohen, chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell
Steve Dannhauser, chairman, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Victor Lewkow, attorney, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Harvey R. Miller, partner, business finance and restructuring guru,
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
James M. Peck, judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Southern District of New York
Daniel Pollack, lawyer for Chris Pettit
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Lehman's primary law firm, Erin Callan's
former employer
Anton R. Valukas, official examiner probing the Lehman bankruptcy
Bankruptcy Administrators
Tony Lomas, PricewaterhouseCoopers partner and administrator of Lehman's London
estate
Bryan Marsal, chief restructuring officer and co-CEO of turnaround firm Alvarez &
Marsal LLC
Government Players
United States
Ben S. Bernanke, chairman, Federal Reserve
C. Christopher Cox, chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC)
Michele Davis, assistant secretary
Timothy F. Geithner, president, Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
later secretary of the Treasury
Dan Jester, Paulson's adviser
David G. Nason, assistant secretary
Henry M. Paulson Jr., secretary of the Treasury
Steven Shafran, Paulson's adviser
Kendrick R. Wilson, adviser to the secretary of the Treasury
United Kingdom
Alastair M. Darling, chancellor of the Exchequer
Sir Callum McCarthy, chairman, Financial Services Authority (FSA)
Hector Sants, chief executive, FSA
Prologue
The most crucial talent required in business is an ability to understand people. You have
to know what motivates them, what their strengths and weaknesses are. . . . If you're a
good judge of character, you will go very far. If not, it's over.
--Stephen A. Schwarzman (2009), former Lehman Brothers partner and current CEO of
the Blackstone Group
What do I think when I look back on that period when
I interviewed all those Lehman bankers in the 1980s? Honestly,
I was relieved that I'd never have to see many of them ever
again. They were,