Have you met any famous bankers?

Not in meetings, but I have run into two of the guys mentioned above and a couple of other guys running top boutiques at golf clubs, like National, Seminole, CC of Purchase, etc. They are surprisingly pretty regular guys from my experience.

Dimon isn't a banker. He's the CEO of a financial institution, where investment banking is just a division. If memory serves right he come up through the commercial side.

I don't know what you mean of meeting them? As talking to them? Dimon gave all the SA a talk last summer. I don't know if that counts as of meeting.. Most Summer programs does that..

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Ling~

True, but I wasn't being that specific. Someone very well-known in investment banking circles. And Dimon did make his way up the ranks through acquisitions.

And yes, Ling, I meant talked to at least for a minute or so. Or been around for a while.

ideating, you are a retarded douchebag. You are a douchebag for calling an investment bank a "financial institution" (who uses that term?), and you are retarded for not knowing who people refer to when they refer to "bankers."

"Jamie Dimon, the new CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase is taking a shot at the title of world's most important banker..."
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/03/837306...

There's a book, published in '69, called Winthrop Aldrich: Lawyer, Banker, Diplomat. Why the "banker" label? Was he a loan officer in Tulsa? No, he was the chairman of Chase Manhattan.

The title of this article about McColl (when he was chairman of BofA): "PRIVATE SECTOR; A Powerful Banker's Other Hat"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EED8123AF932A15756C0A...

When Lloyd Blankfein donates to campaigns, he writes down his occupation as "investment banker."

Let me explain something to you: the lower you are on the ladder at a bank, the less likely you are to get away with calling yourself a "banker." When people talk about bankers running Wall Street they aren't talking about associates and analysts. Sometimes, when an MD is pitching a monster deal, the President will come along to the pitch. Why? Shouldn't he be doing CEO stuff and "managing" by your definition?

Also, who gives a sh*t if he came up through the commercial side? Is that not still banking? The OP was obviously asking about more than M&A advisors when he mentioned Pandit.

Mark Klein needs a girlfriend.

all the time?

I'd consider Dimon a "banker" as well. MKMD makes all good points.

Hmm... yeah not sure why he is irritated all the time.

My point in using the term "financial institution" is to point out that JPMorgan is much more than an investment bank. The levels of hierarchy are different between the CEO of Goldman and a lowly GS analyst than Dimon and a JPM analyst. And I don't think that "banker" on this board has ever referred to a commercial banker. True, Pandit wasn't an M&A advisor in the way some of those other guys were but he did come up through S&T.

Dimon went from b-school to Amex to consumer finance and climbed the ladder that way- his background clearly is not in investment banking.

Thanks for the post though, good to see they are well researched and noted.

Last week we were meeting with a certain European bank and their CEO of Americas stopped by for a chat.

Not sure if that counts as "famous."

hahahahaha...tim sykes...famous. Famous for being an ass and a bad hf manager

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So what do you do?
-I work for an investment banking firm.
Oh okay; you are like my brother, he works for Edward Jones.
-No, a college degree is required in my profession

I got meet Frank Quattrone briefly during an interview a few weeks ago with his new team. I'm not much for being star-struck, but it was nice to meet him. Funny guy.

I didn't expect to see him, I figured he was having lunch with Erich Schmidt or some other Silicon Valley celeb somewhere, but there he was, in his own group's office. Whoduh thunk it.

Not Tim Sykes, Gene Sykes, Einstein.

That's tight, Frank is the man. What kind of impression did you get from their office?

I met Peter Chung, y'know the Carlyle Dude, it was at a party in my friend's SoHo loft. This was back in Princeton. The dude is short. I heard he's doing equities in Dallas

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Also even though the MD in Mark Klein, MD was for Managing Director, but it's for Medical Doctorate. The guy's a doctor! WTF is he doing on a forum for finance professionals? Shouldn't he be curing cancer? OR better yet, taking care of his 4 adult kids or 2 child grand kids?

This quote is taken directly off his site:

"What I do in my free-time

Although I'm 65 and I've never worked in finance a day of my life, I frequent online finance message boards and shoot down posers and lamers with my pithy punchlines. One of my favorite message boards is Wall Street Oasis, which is probably about 70% 16-22 year old investment banking hopefuls and 30% investment banking associates and analysts. This is an especially easy and target rich environment because most of my prey are high school and college students. Posing as a young investment banker allows me to fulfill my dreams of not being an old useless wad of flesh. Most of my comments are directed at prospective monkeys as they are called, simply because although I am 65, the real investment bankers, albeit 21-something, would drown me with a single shot of banker juice to the face."

ROFL: CHECK THIS OUT!!!

http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Mark_Klein

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Look, don't be an idiot. The WSO user "mark klein MD" is clearly not Mark Klein the doctor. Do you really believe that the user "John Mack" is Mack-the-Knife himself?

Here's the link to the doc's blog that the WSO user put in his signature fairly recently:
http://www.drmarkklein.blogspot.com/
Note that there hasn't been an entry since fall 2006.

Here's a link to the history of the Wiki page:
http://campaigns.wikia.com/index.php?title=Mark_Klein&action=history
There has been a few edits in June 2008, adding sections including "What I do in my free-time."
Before that, this page also hasn't been touched since 2006.

"If Wikipedia Says It, It Must Be True."
I'm glad that Facebook has taught you well.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204321235