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...STANLEY O'NEAL He grew up poor in rural Alabama. Now he is president of MERRILL LYNCH and within three years is expected to become the first African-American CEO of a major Wall Street firm. O'Neal, 50, is already leading a culture change at Merrill by putting profits ahead of old relationships. He has scaled back in Japan (a move others have copied) and is shifting brokers' focus from Main Street to clients with at least $1 million to invest...
Packer, who was a managing director at Merrill Lynch, usually worked in the firm’s offices in the World Financial Center. That complex, which is near the World Trade Center, was spared during the attacks. But on Sept. 11, Packer was delivering a keynote speech to an e-commerce conference on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower...
Packer was a leading figure in the financial and technology worlds. At Merrill Lynch, he headed the firm’s major effort at online trading—enabling customers to do business with the investment giant directly over the Internet for the first time. In 1999, Institutional Investor, a prominent trade publication, named him one of the country’s top leaders in online finance...
Packer was an executive at Simon & Schuster in 1999 when officials at Merrill Lynch tapped him to lead a major new Web-based initiative called “Direct Markets.” Merrill Lynch had widely been seen as lagging behind in Internet commerce, and Packer’s task was to design a new interface that would make online trading secure and easy. But since competitors had used the technology for years, he had to help Merrill Lynch catch...
...There's a lot more dialogue at the CEO level," says Steve Baronoff, head of global M&A at Merrill Lynch. "As CEO confidence grows, you'll see a lot more pull the trigger on deals." He notes that the deal pipeline at Merrill has begun to refill in the past month and that economically sensitive companies--including tech, telecom and media--have begun discussing deals that could take place the first half of next year...