WSO's Most Wanted CEOs
Inspired by a recent employer attractiveness survey, Jorge, an obscure yet devastatingly handsome writer for the world’s premiere finance community, Wall Street Oasis, has decided to run a survey on who are the most attractive CEO’s in Wall Street to work for.
Choosing from over 20 nominees from the world’s top banks, consulting, private equity, and fund management firms, monkeys from all over the world will vote in the comments section which 3 of the top CEOs, fund managers, or directors they want to work with the most.
The winning CEOs will most likely not be notified of their victory, but instead be given honorary awards here like:
All votes will be valid until 7pm EST this Friday, and results will be released either 7pm Saturday or 7pm Monday, dependent on Jorge’s state of boredom over the weekend.
Without further ado, here are the nominees:
| Private Equity | Consulting | Banking | Fund Management |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Kravis-KKR | Hans-Paul Bürkner-BCG | Lloyd Blankfein-GS | George Soros-Quantum |
| Steve Schwarzman-Blackstone | Dominic Barton- McK | Jamie Dimon–JPM | Warren Buffet-BRK | David Rubinstein-Carlyle | Steve Ellis- Bain | Vikram Pandit-Citi | Peter Lynch-Fido |
| Leon Black-Apollo | James H. Quigley-Deloitte | Brian Moynihan-BoA | Paul Tudor Jones-Tudor |
| Steve Feinberg-Cerberus | Shumeet Banerji-Booz | James Gorman-MS | John Arnold-Centaurus |
| Other | Other | Brady Dougan- CS | David Einhorn-Greenlight |
| Oswald Grübel-UBS | Julian Robertson-Tiger | ||
| Frank Quattrone-Qatalyst | Stevie Cohen-SAC | ||
| Other | James Simons-Rentech | ||
| John Paulson-Paulson | |||
| Bill Gross-PIMCO | |||
| Other |
I'll start;
Kravis
Soros
PTJ
Soros Buffet Quattrone
Although I will have to admit that Leon Black has by FAR the coolest name in this competition.
BTdubs, you listed Paulson twice.
soros ptj gross
Julian Robertson Lloyd Blankfein Henry Kravis
Schwarzman Jamie PTJ
Jorge,
For PE, I would have loved to say Teddy Forstmann but he is retired from the field. The other big name would have been Ronald Perelman of MacAndrews & Forbes Holding Co., another old name in the PE game. Instead, I'm going to go with Carl Icahn. Odd choice considering most people look for the most well known guys, but Icahn has had a long history at this. He's been involved in his fair share of battles as a raider and as an investor and I wouldn't count him out. He's just not as visible as some of the rest of the names suggested, but he can more than hold his own when he runs with the big boys.
As I know nothing about consulting, I abstain from that vote.
For Banking, I really hate all the CEOs of the major banks, but my vote goes to someone, again not on this list. While I was debating about Brady Dougan with Oswald Grubel, I thought to myself what would someone who loved DLJ LA do? And with that I nominate Ken Moelis, of Moelis and Company. Again, low key and under the radar selection...
For Hedge Funds, hands down Bruce Kovner of Caxton Associates. While I wanted to say Peter Lynch, and I really did, Kovner's been doing this since '83 at Caxton and has been doing the same despite not taking any new money into his fund. Just because a manager is not outspoken does not mean he fails to bring value to the table.
The Monkey King's Cousin, Twice Removed, by the way, looks a little like Jimmy Cayne.
WSO gone bi-curious.
...
Frieds,
Funny cause I replaced Icahn with Lynch betting you'd pick him, and yeah, it was supposed to be The Monkey King's cousin twice removed, Jimmy. Haha.
Lotta love so far for Jamie, Soros, and PTJ. And none so far for the consulting guys.
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Soros Jamie Dimon Schwarzman
*Gross is not the CEO of PIMCO..
Larry Fink John Paulson Ralph Schlosstein
=]
Jamie Schwarzman Lloyd (Kravis)
I know this is just three but I felt obliged to give Kravis some love, too. The fund managers are the people you'd most like to be, but I'm not sure they're guys you'd want to necessarily work for.
PTJ David Tepper Ray Dalio
Schwarzman ? Blankfein PTJ
Shaw Soros Paulson
Buffet Dimon Soros
Warren Buffet, George Soros
Dimon Quattrone Buffett
Jamie/Tepper/Eric Mindich
Stevie dimon Daniel loeb
Paul Tudor Jones George Soros Vikram Pandit
Buffet Soros Kravis
Loeb PTJ Einhorn
For "Other" can I put Tony Stark? I'd be down to switch to the tech sector if I could chill with Iron Man on a semi-regular basis.
yeah i cant believe loeb is NOT on the master list. forrrrrrrrrrrreal put him up there dammit
Warren Buffet Brian Moynihan Jamie Dimon
Soros PTJ Klarman
Kravis Ellis Barton (yeah I'm a consulting fan)
Jorge,
What can I say... Just because Lynch is the man doesn't mean that I think he's the best fund manager out there. I'm sure not many people were thinking guys like Forstmann, Icahn or Perelman though. T. Boone Pickens was another one who I was considering to write in as well.
I'm curious as so what the rational is behind everyone's votes though. The why, to me, is more interesting than the who.
Warren Buffet George Soros Steve Schwarzman
Soros Simons Paulson
Bump
Soros in the lead so far Dimon 2nd tie for 3rd: PTJ and Buffett
Keep em coming, I'm actually curious
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