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The company was founded on January 6, 1914, when Charles E. Merrill opened Charles E. Merrill & Co. for business at 7 Wall Street in New York City. [11] A few months later, Merrill's friend, Edmund C. Lynch, joined him, and in 1915 the name was officially changed to Merrill, Lynch & Co. [12] At that time, the firm's name included a comma between Merrill and Lynch, which was dropped in 1938. [13]
Stanley O'Neal. Earnest Stanley O'Neal (born October 7, 1951 [2]) is an American business executive who was formerly chairman and chief executive of Merrill Lynch having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was criticized for his performance during his tenure as chief executive at ...
Merrill Lynch & Co. Merrill Lynch & Co., formally Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, was a publicly-traded American investment bank that existed independently from 1914 until January 2009 before being acquired by Bank of America and rolled into BofA Securities. The firm engaged in prime brokerage and broker-dealer activities ...
Winthrop Hiram "Win" Smith Jr. (born 1949 in New York, New York) is the former executive vice president of Merrill Lynch & Co. and Chairman of Merrill Lynch International, Inc. He spent 27 years at Merrill Lynch, beginning in 1974, after receiving an MBA from Wharton, retiring in January 2002. He is a 1971 graduate of Amherst College.
Greg Fleming (businessman) Gregory J. Fleming (born 1963) is an American business executive and investment banker. [1] Currently, the CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management, [2] Fleming is also a lecturer at Yale Law School in ethics and financial markets. [1] He previously served as president and chief operating officer at Merrill Lynch, where ...
John Thain. John Alexander Thain (born May 26, 1955) is an American financial executive and investment banker. He was president and co-COO of Goldman Sachs, and then CEO of the New York Stock Exchange. Thain then became the last chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch & Co. before its merger with Bank of America. He was designated to become president ...
Edmund C. Lynch gained special notoriety when he foresaw the impending Wall Street Crash of 1929, and advised Merrill Lynch 's clients to sell many of their stock holdings in 1928. [3] As many Americans were enjoying the soaring stock market in 1928, Lynch was convinced a disaster was near. His famous letter to all of Merrill Lynch's clients ...
Gary Appel. Children. 2. Sallie L. Krawcheck (born November 28, 1964) [1] is the former head of Bank of America 's Global Wealth and Investment Management division and is currently the CEO and co-founder of Ellevest, a digital financial advisor for women launched in 2016. [2][3][4] She has been called "the most powerful woman on Wall Street."