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The 2014 FSLF is generously sponsored by To inquire about subscriptions, please contact 212.930.0856 or [email protected]. Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services Platts Media sponsor S&P Capital IQ J.D. Power S&P Dow Jones Indices McGraw Hill Construction The New York Public Library FINANCIAL SERVICES LEADERSHIP FORUM PAST SPEAKERS (2001–2014) WILLIAM A. ACKMAN MOHAMED EL-ERIAN VIKRAM PANDIT GEORGE SOROS Managing Member and Founder, Pershing Former CEO and Co-CIO, PIMCO Former CEO, Citigroup Founder and Chairman, Soros Fund Square Capital Management, L.P. Management LLC PETER THIEL LAURENCE D. FINK GARY PARR Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor ROGER ALTMAN Chairman and CEO, Blackrock, Inc. Vice Chairman, Lazard HON. ELIOT SPITZER who first gained attention when he started Founder and Executive Chairman, Evercore Former Governor, the State of New York PayPal, a company that revolutionized the HON. TIMOTHY F. GEITHNER JOHN PAULSON way payments work and made it possible HON. SHEILA C. BAIR Former Secretary of the Treasury President, Paulson & Co. JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ Former Chairman, FDIC Nobel Laureate and Columbia University for small businesses to thrive on the JAMES P. GORMAN HON. HARVEY PITT Professor internet. Many of his former colleagues JEFFREY L. BEWKES Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Former Chairman, SEC have gone on the start successful companies – including SpaceX, President and CEO, Time Warner Inc. Morgan Stanley LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS Tesla Motors, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Yelp. In 2004, Peter started HON. FELIX ROHATYN Former Director, National Economic Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company that makes tools for BARTON M. BIGGS JEREMY GRANTHAM Former Ambassador to France Council national security and global finance. That same year he also made Managing Partner, Traxis Partners Co-Founder and Chief Investment the first outside investment in Facebook and continues to serve on Strategist, GMO WILBUR L. ROSS, JR. CHAD SWEET its Board of Directors. Today, as a Partner at Founder Fund and in his DAVID BONDERMAN CEO, WL Ross & Co. LLC Co-Founder and CEO, The Chertoff Group own investing, he works to identify and support the next generation Founding Partner, TPG Capital MAURICE R. GREENBERG of technology companies. Peter started the Thiel Foundation and Former Chairman and CEO, AIG DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN DAVID SWENSEN the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship, helping to ignite a debate on the WARREN BUFFETT Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group Chief Investment Officer, Yale University differences that might exist between learning and schooling. He Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway SALLIE L. KRAWCHECK recently wrote a book called Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Former President, Global Wealth & HON. ROBERT E. RUBIN JOHN A. THAIN Build the Future, based on a class he taught at Stanford University. RONNIE C. CHAN Investment Management, Bank of America Former Secretary of the Treasury Chairman and CEO, CIT Group Inc. Chairman, Hang Lung Properties Limited Corporation LEWIS A. SANDERS JAMES S. TISCH 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 Chairman Emeritus, Citigroup Inc. JOSH WOLFE HON. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Chief Washington Correspondent, Former Secretary of State MARC LASRY The New York Times Josh Wolfe is Co-Founder and Managing Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, HON. JOHN C. WHITEHEAD Director of venture capital fund, Lux HON. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON Avenue Capital Group STEPHEN A. SCHWARZMAN Former Co-Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co. Capital, focusing on contrarian investments 42nd President of the United States Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder, in emerging technology. He is also Co- THOMAS H. LEE The Blackstone Group MARY JO WHITE Founder and Director at Kurion, which LEON COOPERMAN President, Thomas H. Lee Capital Chair, SEC focuses on high-tech nuclear waste in Chairman and CEO, Omega Advisors, Inc. HON. MURIEL SIEBERT Fukushima, Japan and US nuclear weapons cleanup complexes. He is JOHN J. MACK Chairman and CEO, BYRON WIEN the Founding Investor and Director at Kymeta, where, with Bill Gates ROBERT E. DIAMOND, JR. Former Chairman, Morgan Stanley Muriel Siebert & Co. Vice Chairman, Blackstone Advisory and Nathan Myhrvold, he is working to commercialize “metamaterials” Former Chief Executive, Barclays PLC Partners LP for global satellite communications. Other pursuits include Shapeways, STEVE MANDEL JAMES H. SIMONS the world leader in 3D printing, Planet Labs, which launched the JAMIE DIMON Founder and Portfolio Manager, Founder, Renaissance Technologies LLC FRANK ZARB largest constellation of earth-imaging satellites, and Siluria, an MIT- Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Lone Pine Capital Former Chairman, NASDAQ spinout that converts natural gas to global chemicals. Josh previously PAUL SINGER WILLIAM J. MCDONOUGH worked at SalomonSmithBarney and Merrill Lynch; he also published HON. WILLIAM H. DONALDSON Partner, Elliott Associates Former Chairman, SEC Former President & CEO, Federal Reserve AIDS-immunopathology research in Cell Vision and The Journal of Bank of New York 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..