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FSLF
Financial Services
Leadership Forum
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The New York Public Library’s Financial Services
Leadership Forum is a breakfast series that provides a
unique opportunity for financial leaders to interact in
an intimate setting. Past speakers include Bill Ackman,
Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, George Soros,
Mary Jo White, and more.
Claire B. Benenson
Henry H. Arnhold
Alexandra Lebenthal
Co-Chair
Leslie E. Bains
Sid Lerner
Andrew M. Blum
Catherine Marron
Samuel C. Butler
William J. McDonough
Judith R. Ehrlich
Co-Chair
Hon. William H. Donaldson
Harold McGraw III
Leslie D. Toepfer
Harold Ehrlich
Doris P. Meister
Co-Chair
William Freda
Douglas L. Peterson
Roy L. Furman
Peter G. Peterson
Edward L. Gardner
Laura Resnikoff
Leslie V. Godridge
Neeraj Sahai
Maurice R. Greenberg
Paul Schreiber
Peter Thiel
Edward S. Hyman
Daniel H. Stern
Henry P. Johnson
Edgar Wachenheim III
Technology Investor and Entrepreneur
Ann Kaplan
Lulu C. Wang
in conversation with
Todd Lang
Hon. John C. Whitehead
Josh Wolfe
Lewis B. Cullman
Honorary Chair
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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FINANCIAL SERVICES LEADERSHIP FORUM PAST SPEAKERS (2001–2014)
WILLIAM A. ACKMAN
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN
VIKRAM PANDIT
GEORGE SOROS
Managing Member and Founder, Pershing
Square Capital Management, L.P.
Former CEO and Co-CIO, PIMCO
Former CEO, Citigroup
Founder and Chairman, Soros Fund
Management LLC
LAURENCE D. FINK
GARY PARR
Chairman and CEO, Blackrock, Inc.
Vice Chairman, Lazard
HON. TIMOTHY F. GEITHNER
JOHN PAULSON
Former Secretary of the Treasury
President, Paulson & Co.
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
JAMES P. GORMAN
HON. HARVEY PITT
Nobel Laureate and Columbia University
Professor
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Morgan Stanley
Former Chairman, SEC
PETER THIEL
Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor
who first gained attention when he started
PayPal, a company that revolutionized the
way payments work and made it possible
for small businesses to thrive on the
internet. Many of his former colleagues
have gone on the start successful companies – including SpaceX,
Tesla Motors, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Yelp. In 2004, Peter started
Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company that makes tools for
national security and global finance. That same year he also made
the first outside investment in Facebook and continues to serve on
its Board of Directors. Today, as a Partner at Founder Fund and in his
own investing, he works to identify and support the next generation
of technology companies. Peter started the Thiel Foundation and
the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship, helping to ignite a debate on the
differences that might exist between learning and schooling. He
recently wrote a book called Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to
Build the Future, based on a class he taught at Stanford University.
JOSH WOLFE
Josh Wolfe is Co-Founder and Managing
Director of venture capital fund, Lux
Capital, focusing on contrarian investments
in emerging technology. He is also CoFounder and Director at Kurion, which
focuses on high-tech nuclear waste in
Fukushima, Japan and US nuclear weapons cleanup complexes. He is
the Founding Investor and Director at Kymeta, where, with Bill Gates
and Nathan Myhrvold, he is working to commercialize “metamaterials”
for global satellite communications. Other pursuits include Shapeways,
the world leader in 3D printing, Planet Labs, which launched the
largest constellation of earth-imaging satellites, and Siluria, an MITspinout that converts natural gas to global chemicals. Josh previously
worked at SalomonSmithBarney and Merrill Lynch; he also published
AIDS-immunopathology research in Cell Vision and The Journal of
Leukocyte Biology. He is a term member at the Council on Foreign
Relations, a columnist and editor with Forbes, and a frequent guest
on CNBC and CNN. Josh is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Coney
Island Prep, the first charter school in his native Coney Island, Brooklyn.
ROGER ALTMAN
Founder and Executive Chairman, Evercore
HON. SHEILA C. BAIR
Former Governor, the State of New York
Former Chairman, FDIC
JEFFREY L. BEWKES
President and CEO, Time Warner Inc.
HON. ELIOT SPITZER
LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS
BARTON M. BIGGS
JEREMY GRANTHAM
Former Ambassador to France
Former Director, National Economic
Council
Managing Partner, Traxis Partners
Co-Founder and Chief Investment
Strategist, GMO
WILBUR L. ROSS, JR.
CHAD SWEET
CEO, WL Ross & Co. LLC
Co-Founder and CEO, The Chertoff Group
DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN
DAVID SWENSEN
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group
Chief Investment Officer, Yale University
HON. ROBERT E. RUBIN
JOHN A. THAIN
HON. FELIX ROHATYN
DAVID BONDERMAN
Founding Partner, TPG Capital
MAURICE R. GREENBERG
Former Chairman and CEO, AIG
WARREN BUFFETT
Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
SALLIE L. KRAWCHECK
RONNIE C. CHAN
Chairman, Hang Lung Properties Limited
Former President, Global Wealth &
Investment Management, Bank of America
Corporation
JAMES CHANOS
EDWARD S. LAMPERT
CEO, Sanders Capital, LLC
President and CEO, Loews Corporation
President, Kynikos Associates
Chairman of ESL Investment Inc. and of
Sears Holding Corporation
DAVID E. SANGER
SANFORD I. WEILL
Former Secretary of State
MARC LASRY
Chief Washington Correspondent,
The New York Times
HON. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder,
Avenue Capital Group
STEPHEN A. SCHWARZMAN
Former Co-Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co.
THOMAS H. LEE
Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder,
The Blackstone Group
MARY JO WHITE
HON. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
42nd President of the United States
LEON COOPERMAN
Chairman and CEO, CIT Group Inc.
LEWIS A. SANDERS
JAMES S. TISCH
Chair, SEC
HON. MURIEL SIEBERT
JOHN J. MACK
Former Chairman, Morgan Stanley
Chairman and CEO,
Muriel Siebert & Co.
STEVE MANDEL
JAMES H. SIMONS
Founder and Portfolio Manager,
Lone Pine Capital
Founder, Renaissance Technologies LLC
Former Chief Executive, Barclays PLC
JAMIE DIMON
Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Chairman Emeritus, Citigroup Inc.
HON. JOHN C. WHITEHEAD
President, Thomas H. Lee Capital
Chairman and CEO, Omega Advisors, Inc.
ROBERT E. DIAMOND, JR.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
WILLIAM J. MCDONOUGH
Former Chairman, SEC
Former President & CEO, Federal Reserve
Bank of New York
Vice Chairman, Blackstone Advisory
Partners LP
FRANK ZARB
Former Chairman, NASDAQ
PAUL SINGER
HON. WILLIAM H. DONALDSON
BYRON WIEN
Partner, Elliott Associates