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E. Stanley O'Neal

CSIS Trustee
Stanley O’Neal is former chairman and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.  Mr. O’Neal became CEO of the company in December 2002 and was elected chairman in April 2003. He has held a series of increasingly responsible positions since joining the company in 1986 as vice president of investment banking. He was named president and chief operating officer in July 2001 and served as president of the U.S. Private Client Group from February 2000 until September 2001. He served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Merrill Lynch from 1998 until 2000 and also held the position of executive vice president and cohead of the Corporate and Institutional Client Group (now Global Markets & Investment Banking) prior to that. Previously, Mr. O’Neal had been in charge of capital markets and a managing director in investment banking, heading the financing services group. Before joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. O’Neal was employed at General Motors Corporation in New York and Madrid. He held a number of financial positions at the company, including general assistant treasurer in New York, responsible for mergers, acquisitions and domestic financing activities. Mr. O’Neal serves on the Board of Executives of the New York Stock Exchange and the Corporate Boards of the Partnership for New York City, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, CSIS, Lincoln Center Theater, and the Financial Services Roundtable. He is a member of the Business Roundtable and the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the advisory board of the Bronx Preparatory Charter School. Previously, he served as a director of General Motors Corporation, vice chairman of the Securities Industry Association, and member of the U.S. Secretary of State Advisory Committee on Leadership and Management. He also formerly served on the boards of the NASDAQ Stock Market, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the Ronald McDonald House, Catalyst, and the National Urban League. A resident of New York City, Mr. O’Neal received a master’s degree in business administration with distinction in finance from Harvard University and is a graduate of Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute).

 
 

 

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