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Wall Street 50. Part 4
The importance of philanthropy is one of the striking features of
business life in the U.S. It is almost expected for wealthy business people
to devote large amounts of time and money to good causes.
“For me, it is a very important part of who I am,” says Bob McCann.
“It is not just, or even mainly, altruism that leads some people to get
involved. . . . I did it for the most commercial – and most New York – of
all reasons. Then the oddest thing happened. I started to care.”
- David Wighton, Financial Times, 5/4/05
The Irish have long had a place on Wall Street. In 1868, John J. Kiernan
published a financial news-sheet. He stayed ahead of the game by rowing
out to the ships in New York Harbor and collecting the latest news from
London and Europe.
Brooklyn-born, the son of Irish immigrants, Kiernan will be remembered
for hiring Wall Street Journal founders, Charles Henry Dow and William David
Jones, as early leg-men for his growing financial news bureau.
His former office is now the site of the New York Stock Exchange.
Back in the 1860s, the area around Wall Street was teeming with Irish
immigrants. Fleeing hunger and persecution in Ireland, they could hardly
have foreseen the great heights to which the Irish would climb in the U.S.
Today, the Irish are involved in every aspect of American life. But even
as they assimilate and move up the ladder they still take pride in their
Irish heritage.
And while our Wall Street 50 list shows the extraordinary influence of
the Irish in the financial sector, what really makes our Wall Street 50
unique is the number of people on the list who are involved in community
building and charitable organizations. This empathy for others and desire
to “pay if forward” is something that those immigrants of old would be most
proud of.
- Editor Patricia Harty
 
Many of our Top 50 trace their ancestry to at least two counties.
21 of Ireland’s 32 counties represented.
 Pete
A. Meyers
Deutsche Bank Securities
Pete Meyers is a managing director and co-head of Life Science in the
Health Care Investment Banking Group at Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. Deutsche
Bank is responsible for 65,000 employees, and pulls in $26 billion in revenue
yearly. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Meyers was a managing director
at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he specialized in health care investment
banking, particularly pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. He was Vice President
in Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions at Warburg Dillon Read prior to
working at Credit Suisse.
Mr. Meyers received an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School,
and a BS, summa cum laude, from Boston College. He is third-generation Irish
American, with roots on his mother’s side tracing back to County Clare.
He is married with two children.
 Angus
Miller
Merrill Lynch
As vice president and senior financial advisor of Merrill Lynch’s Global
Private Client Group, Dublin-born Angus Miller assists a select group of
clients whose substantial assets require sophisticated planning and innovative
strategies. Miller advises senior corporate executives and their families,
as well as entrepreneurs and non-profit institutions on a number of different
areas, including wealth preservation and transfer planning, customized portfolio
design, hedging and diversification strategies for concentrated stock (utilizing
alternative investments), philanthropic strategies and creative financing
solutions. Prior to joining the company in 1997, Miller worked in the Private
Client Group of a leading national investment boutique.
A member of the Investment Management Consultants Association and the
Ireland-US Council for Commerce and Industry, Miller is also actively involved
in The American Ireland Fund (AIF). He is on the chairman’s committee of
the AIF’s New York Dinner and its New Jersey Golf Classic.
Miller graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with a degree in Advanced
Computer Programming. He is married with two children.
 John
T. Moore III
Marwood Group
John Moore has been a long-time success story in the health care investment
business. He founded the Marwood Group with Edward Kennedy, Jr. in January
of this year, and is serving as the company’s chairman and CEO.
Before starting the Marwood Group, Moore was the vice chairman of the
board of managers and a co-founder of CarePlus Health Plan, an HMO based
in New York City. After nine years, the company was sold to Amerigroup in
January of 2005.
Moore is very active in the New York City civic arena. He chooses not
to focus on one particular area, but rather sits on the board of the Metropolitan
Foundation, a not-for-profit organization which raises money for need-based
charities throughout the NY area.
Moore also is on the alumni advisory board to the Communications Department
at his alma mater, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. There he
received his B.A. in Communication Studies. He has fourth-generation Irish
roots in counties Meath and Monaghan. Moore is married to wife Tanya, and
they have two children, Alexandra and John IV, in New York.
 Kevin
M. Murray
Merrill Lynch
As senior financial advisor of Merrill Lynch’s Private Client Group,
Kevin Murray is invested in helping his clients achieve their financial
goals. He has over twelve years experience providing wealth management solutions
to high net worth individuals and businesses, and he specializes in financial
planning, investment solutions, retirement and wealth transfer strategies.
He is also a member of Merrill Lynch’s Chairman’s Club and Winners Circle.
Mr. Murray, whose father emigrated from county Galway, has become increasingly
involved in supporting charities in the Irish American community. He helped
establish The American Ireland Fund’s Young Leaders program, and is a committee
member of the Friends of Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre, Long Island.
Mr. Murray also has roots in county Clare. He currently resides on Long
Island with his wife, Monica, and his two children, James Patrick and Lauren.
 Edward
J. O’Brien
State Street Corporation
As executive vice president and treasurer of State Street Corporation,
as well as the head of the company’s Securities Finance Division, Edward
O’Brien manages the company’s world wide securities lending business, the
largest such business in the world. He also oversees the company’s balance
sheet and interest rate risk management activities worldwide. Mr. O’Brien
also chairs State Street’s Asset Liability Management Committee, is a member
of the Executive Management Group, and is a voting member of the company’s
Fiduciary Review, Major Risk, Financial Policy, and Investment Committees.
He is also vice chairman of the Securities Finance Risk Management committee
and president of the State Street Navigator Securities Lending Trust, a
proprietary mutual fund series offered by State Street Bank and Trust for
its Securities Finance clients.
Mr. O’Brien received his BA in Literature from the University of the
South. He is third-generation Irish American with roots in counties Clare,
Kilkenny and Roscommon. He is married with two sons.
 Christopher
C. Quick
Banc of America Specialist, Inc.
Heading up one of the largest specialist firms on the New York Stock
Exchange is Christopher C. Quick, the CEO of Banc of America Specialist,
Inc. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation.
Quick is a former member of the NYSE Board of Directors and currently serves
as an Executive Floor Official. Banc of America Specialist is the market-maker
for more than 430 NYSE listed companies whose trading comprises 17% of the
total NYSE share volume and 20% of the dollar volume of trading.
Quick joined the Quick & Reilly Group in 1979, which in 1998 became Fleet
Meehan Specialist. In 2004, Fleet was acquired by Bank of America. He was
appointed president in 1986.
Quick has held executive positions in the specialist business for more
than 20 years and began his career after earning his BS in finance from
Fairfield University, of which he is a member of the Trustee Advisory Board.
He is also a board member of the Boys and Girls Club of New York, the Hotchkiss
School and the U.S. Ski Team Foundation, and is a member of the Executive
Committee of the Cardinal’s Committee of the Laity of the Archdiocese of
New York. He and his wife Ann reside in Westchester County with their four
daughters.
 Leslie
C. Quick III
Massey, Quick & Co.
Leslie C. Quick III is a founding partner of Massey, Quick & Co., a wealth
management firm in Morristown, NJ. For the previous 28 years, he held various
executive positions at the Quick & Reilly Group, Inc., which in 1998 was
acquired by Fleet Financial Group, and which was consequently acquired by
Bank of America in 2004.
Quick is a trustee of Oak Knoll School in Summit, New Jersey. He is on
the board of directors for Market Data Insite and Automated Trading Desk
LLC, the Bishop’s Financial Council for the Diocese of Metuchen and the
board of St. Bonaventure University. He is also the Chairman of the Campaign
for the Heart at Morristown Memorial Health Hospital in New Jersey. A recipient
of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, Quick holds an honorary degree from
St. Bonaventure.
 Peter
Quick
American Stock Exchange
Appointed as president of the American Stock Exchange (Amex) in May 2000,
Peter Quick is extremely active in the business and financial community.
He serves on the American Stock Exchange Board of Governors, is an active
member on the Board of Directors of the Securities Industry Automation Corporation,
and Reckson Associates Realty Corp., Long Island’s largest commercial landlord.
Prior to joining Amex, he was president and CEO of Quick & Reilly Inc.,
a leading discount brokerage firm.
Quick is dedicated to community organizations and he serves on the Board
of Directors of St. Francis Hospital and Good Shepherd Hospice. He also
serves on the University of Virginia Jefferson Scholars Board of Directors.
After receiving his bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University
of Virginia, Quick attended Stanford University’s Graduate School of Petroleum
Engineering. He was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and served four years
on active duty. He received the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor
award in May 2001. Peter and his wife Crisler reside in Mill Neck, NY with
their seven children.
 Thomas
C. Quick
Quick & Reilly, Inc.
As retired vice chairman of Quick & Reilly/Fleet Securities, Inc., Thomas
Quick was very dedicated to both his career in finance and many charitable
organizations. In 1998, Quick & Reilly became part of Fleet, now Bank of
America. Previously, he was the president and COO of The Quick & Reilly
Group, Inc., the New York Stock Exchange-listed holding company for the
firm’s securities businesses. From 1985 to 1996 he was President of Quick
& Reilly, Inc., the leading national discount brokerage firm.
Quick received a bachelor’s degree in business from Fairfield University
in 1977. He now serves as a trustee of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories,
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, The National Corporate
Theatre Fund and Fairfield University. He is a member of the Board of Directors
of The Inner-City Scholarship Foundation and a member of it’s Endowment
Fund. Quick is a third generation Irish-American.
 Kenneth
A. Rathgeber
Fidelity Investments
Kenneth Rathgeber is executive vice president and head of Risk Oversight
for Fidelity Investments, the largest mutual fund company in the United
States. He also serves as chief compliance officer for the Fidelity Funds.
Prior to joining Fidelity in 1995, he worked for Goldman Sachs for over
17 years, finishing as a chief operations officer for Asia, and responsible
for the operations, technology and finance functions. During his tenure
at the company, Mr. Rathgeber had a variety of assignments, including global
co-controller and vice president of proprietary accounting/risk analysis.
He has also worked as a finance manager for Dillon Read & Company, a senior
examiner for the New York Stock Exchange and an auditor for Price Waterhouse
& Company.
Mr. Rathgeber received a BS in business administration from Manhattan
College and an MBA from Long Island University, where he graduated cum laude.
He is a certified public accountant in the state of New York. Mr. Rathgeber
is second-generation Irish American. He is married with two children.
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