The following press release went from the News Office on Tuesday Feb. 10, and is
being distributed to faculty and staff to generate their interest in a very special event
on campus.
Smith Barney Chairman & CEO Sallie Krawcheck To Speak at Baruch on Feb. 18
Delivering Second Lecture in 2003-2004 Russell Banks CEO Leadership Series
Sallie Krawcheck, the highest-level woman working on Wall Street, will speak on
"Business Leadership" at Baruch College on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 7:15
pm. Ms. Krawcheck, Chairman and CEO of Smith Barney, a subsidiary of Citibank
and Wall Street’s largest brokerage, has been widely credited with restoring the
credibility of the company’s securities analysts in the wake of the scandals that
followed the collapse of the Internet bubble.
Much reported on and frequently mentioned as a possible successor to Citigroup
chairman Sanford Weill, Krawcheck will address a group of ambitious
undergraduate business majors and MBA candidates striving to make their own
reputation on Wall Street. The talk, part of the The Russell Banks CEO Leadership
Series at Baruch College, will be followed by a spirited Q & A session. The entire
event takes place in the Conference Center of the College’s award-winning Vertical
Campus building, at 55 Lexington Ave. (and 24th St.), Room 14-220.
Sallie Krawcheck has been chairman and ceo of Smith Barney since October 2002.
She made her reputation as a stock analyst at Stanford C. Bernstein & Co, a highly
regarded independent research firm that Krawcheck led prior to taking the helm at
Smith Barney. During her years as an equity research analyst covering the
securities brokerage sector, she was ranked the #1 analyst in Institutional Investor
magazine's annual poll. In 2003 she was named Fortune managazine's "Most
Influential Person Under the Age of 40". In 2002, she was one of Time magazine's
"Golbal Business Influentials."
The event takes place on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004 at 7:15 pm in the Vertical
Campus Conference Center, room 14-220, 55Lexington AVe at 24th Street, New
York, NY 10010.
For more information please contact the News Office at 212 802 2881 or 212 802
2916.
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