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...“There’s a lot of pressure on the incoming money flow,” said chief financial officer Frank Witter....
...VW is also “intensely debating” payment of its annual dividend, said Frank Witter, chief financial officer....
...The remarkable singer/cellist Ayanna Witter Johnson came next, introduced with swirly keyboards and doctored hip-hop beats....
...Dean Witter, another well-known US broker that merged with Morgan Stanley in 1997, survived as a brand until 2001....
...When that happens he will be replaced as VW group CFO by Frank Witter, the current chief executive of VW’s financial services unit....
...“On many of your points we are in agreement,” VW’s Frank Witter wrote to TCI’s Sir Chris Hohn, adding that he was open to “constructive dialogue”....
...Robert Ray, head of the CME’s planned European futures business, has died after a short illness, the US group confirmed on Thursday....
...During that term, he helped put together a deal with Dean Witter, the brokerage firm, but was squeezed out in 2001 by Mr Purcell, a Dean Witter veteran who became chief executive of the combined bank....
...Author Robert M Edsel, with Bret Witter, pieced together what they describe as history’s “greatest theft” – the Nazi confiscation of an astonishing 5m cultural artefacts – and its “greatest treasure hunt...
...Robert Cottrell is editor of the Browser, www.thebrowser.com...
...During that term, he helped put together a deal with Dean Witter, the brokerage firm, but was squeezed out in 2001 after a power struggle with Philip Purcell, the Dean Witter veteran who became chief executive...
...The choice of Robert Bob Diamond as its next chief executive puts the seal on the recovery....
...In recent months, he has been introduced to a series of financial titans, including Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts....
...Above all, Eton produces people who have the confidence to go out and do something, not witter about it from the sidelines. Of course that can tip over into a kind of arrogance.” Ah yes, confidence....
...February 2006: Names Zoe Cruz, a former ally of Purcell, and Robert Scully, a senior investment banker, as co-presidents....
...The move demonstrates that he is not wedded to the former operations of Dean Witter where he was chief executive before the Morgan Stanley takeover and is willing to take decisive action....
...He succeeds Robert Scott, who resigns after 33 years with the firm amid a shake-up of duties orchestrated by Purcell. 2002 - Morgan Stanley drops the Dean Witter name following resignation of John Mack,...
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
...The battle at Morgan Stanley took a sharp personal turn on Tuesday when dissident advisory directors proposed bringing Robert Scott back to the bank as president and chief executive....
...Before Morgan Stanley’s merger with Mr Purcell’s Dean Witter in 1997, Mr Mack was the charismatic dauphin to chairman Dick Fisher....
...His exit follows those of John Mack, who became president when Morgan Stanley was taken over by Mr Purcell's retail broking firm Dean Witter Discover in 1997, and Robert Scott, who succeeded Mr Mack in the...
...Robert Tuttle, a California car dealer, was named ambassador to the UK, while Ronald Spogli, a California investment banker, was tapped for the post in Rome....
...The eight cover a wide range of Morgan Stanley experience, from Parker Gilbert, who was chairman until 1990, to Robert Scott, president until he was pushed out by Mr Purcell in 2003....
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