PART 5
BILL KAUFMANN thanks David Rockefeller
I’ve been hoping for a way to express my deepest thanks to the many at Chase who, over the years, made my own rather eclectic career possible. As we’ve heard from others, David Rockefeller would be at top of the list. After becoming a junior officer, thanks to David, I was allowed to take a six-year leave of absence to help build and lead The National Urban Coalition, the first private sector-led initiative attempting to deal with the challenges of the urban poor and minorities. Returning to Chase, David, Frank Stankard, Bobby Douglas, Ed Shaw, Ed Allison, Art Ryan and others gave me multiple opportunities - to lead Private Banking International, Trade & Export Finance and Info Serv Int’l (master trust and global custody). But, these Chase “mentors” don’t adequately recognize the scores of others whose management example or hands-on support were central to my own career. And, mentioning Bill Flanz, Don Boudreau, John Ward, Marsh Carter and Ed Rielgelhaupt doesn’t begin to do justice to the many others less senior whose capable support was critically valuable over the years. But this background did allow me to establish a second, public sector/non-profit career, as Chairman/CEO of a Connecticut-based consulting company and Chair of a Scandinavian educational organization…but again, all of these never would have been possible without the leadership and support of the many at Chase. So, my gratitude is unbounded and I greatly appreciate the opportunity to express it.
Giving Thanks to Mentors, Part 5
Thank you to the mentors who influenced generations of superb Chase bankers (and those of Chemical and MHT and other heritage institutions). These were men and women who shaped careers, values and interests, superiors who went beyond just being a boss.
Because of the number of submissions, we've divided the tributes into four parts. Parts 1-3 are from 2021. Part 4 was introduced on Thanksgiving Weekend 2022.
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►D. Sykes Wilford thanks Robert Slighton
►Ted Klingos thanks Cornelius (Neal) Howland
►Dede Gotthelf thanks Tony Woodward
►Robert C. Sutton Jr. thanks Chuck McCoy
►Martin Poole thanks Tom Harkins
►Frank Tallerico thanks Jane Magdasy
►Jack MacPhail thanks: Laura Calhoun, Lee North,
Larry Toal, John Vaughey, Palmer Turnheim, Tony
Terracciano, Frank Stankard, Bob Hunter, Peter
Greer, Bill Flanz, Robert Binney, Mike Esposito,
Mike Urkowitz, Bob Douglass, Bob Murphy, Arjan
Mathrani and Michael Kruse
►Anonymous thanks John Ward
►Janin Campos thanks Rudi von Eisenhart-Rothe
►Dé Pham Lifvenborg thanks Liz Flynn and David Baggs, Carter Booth, Peter Lighte and
Ro Fallon
►Monica Altmann thanks Richard Guariglia
►Barbara Tsarnas thanks Steve Friedman
►Hugh Balloch thanks Peter Nice
►Gillian van Schaick thanks Bob Russo
►Sally Ballweg thanks Scott Blatterman & Ed Nelson
►Larry Bloom thanks Anthony J. Annucci
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►Robert Shippee thanks Robert Strong
►Phil Sorace thanks Jerry Sullivan, Jim Brennan,
Pete Bailey, Tony Terracciano, Mike Cassidy, Ron Keenan, Alden Small, Tim McGinnis,
Barbara O'Neal, Jack Woods, Palmer Turnheim, Wolf Schoellkopf and Tom O'Reilly
►Edith Orenstein thanks David M. Morris
►Gary Olson thanks John Philpot, George Perry; also Bob Aberlin, Tim McGinnis, Don Chafee
►Dick Hay thanks Dave Boyce and Stan Burns
►Lawrence DeVan thanks Peter Holzer, Bill Higgins and Jack Hooper
►Marsh Carter thanks Frank Reilly
►Ed Moran thanks Kaye Jones, Marty Logan,
Tom Hill, Paul Walker and Greg Brennan
►Herbert Aspbury thanks Don McCree Sr.
►John Hehir thanks Bob Barnes, Jack Gates, Francis
Mason, Peter Nice, Ulises Giberga, Frank Reilly,
Mike Urkowitz, Liz Flynn, Don Boudreau and
Yoram Kinberg
►Annette Whittemore thanks Jane Klivans
►Jerry Hannon thanks Al Gamper, Ed Farley, John
Dowling, Jimmy Lee and, especially, John Zutter
►Steve Wertheim thanks Tom Poplawski
►Dave Farrell thanks Bob Dandrea
►Brahm Nirgunarthy thanks John Fabrizio