COMPANY

Formed 1920 from William A. Read & Company. The firm was acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation in 1997, and merged into S.G. Warburg & Co., becoming Warburg Dillon Read. The remnants are presently part of UBS.

Official Website:
http://www.dillonread.com/

Industry:
Investment Banking

Corporate headquarters:
New York City

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Neil R. Austrian	Business	c. 1940		President of NFL, 1991-98
John P. Birkelund	Business	c. 1930		Chairman of Dillon Read, 1986-98
William T. Esrey	Business	c. 1940		CEO of Sprint, 1988-2003
James V. Forrestal	Government	15-Feb-1892	22-May-1949	US Secretary of Defense, 1947-49
Evan Griffith Galbraith	Business	2-Jul-1928	21-Jan-2008	US Ambassador to France, 1981-85
Robert A. Gerard	Government	c. 1945		Assistant Treasury Secretary, 1974-77
Gerald Greenwald	Business	11-Sep-1935		CEO of United Air Lines, 1994-99
Franklin W. Hobbs	Business	c. 1947		Warburg Dillon Read
W. Walker Lewis	Business	c. 1945		Devon Value Advisers
John H. Mullin III	Business	1941		Former Partner, Dillon Read & Co.
Paul Nitze	Diplomat	16-Jan-1907	19-Oct-2004	US cold warrior

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John P. Birkelund	Business	c. 1930		Chairman of Dillon Read, 1986-98
Evan Griffith Galbraith	Business	2-Jul-1928	21-Jan-2008	US Ambassador to France, 1981-85
John H. Mullin III	Business	1941		Former Partner, Dillon Read & Co.

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Barbara T. Alexander	Business	c. 1948		Former UBS manager
William T. Kerr	Business	17-Apr-1941		CEO of Meredith Corporation, 1997-2006
Richard C. Leone	Government	?		President of the Century Foundation
Greg Maffei	Business	24-May-1960		CEO of Liberty Media
Karim Samii	Business	c. 1963		Pardus Capital Management

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Victor A. Pelson	Business	c. 1937		Former AT&T Executive

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