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	23-Jun-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
Robert H. Hotz	Business	c. 1944		Houlihan Lokey
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	23-Jun-1930		Chairman of Dillon Read, 1986-98
Evan Griffith Galbraith	Business	2-Jul-1928	21-Jan-2008	US Ambassador to France, 1981-85
Robert H. Hotz	Business	c. 1944		Houlihan Lokey
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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