Laurence Tosi is certainly well educated, with an MBA and JD (from Georgetown University). Only 40 years old, he has served as Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER)'s chief operator officer of global markets and investment banking.
Well, now he has a new gig: the chief financial officer of The Blackstone Group LLP (NYSE: BX).
With the turmoil on Wall Street, there has been a lot of defections lately. For example, Lazard Ltd. (NYSE: LAZ) investment banker, George Bilicic, moved over to KKR. There was also Lehman Brother Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LEH)'s investment banker, Gary Weinstein, who took a spot at Providence Equity Partners.
Before the bell: Wall Street headed higher; automakers, retailers in focus
Waiting for the other shoe to drop: The looming credit crisis
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