Winthrop H. Smith, Jr.
Winthrop H. Smith Jr. is the son and namesake of a founder of Merrill Lynch. He had his own illustrious twenty-eight-year career with the storied Wall Street firm, serving as an executive vice president, a member of the Executive Management Committee, and chairman of Merrill Lynch International. He is one of very few people to have known personally all eleven of the company’s CEOs. He resigned abruptly in 2001 because he believed the firm had betrayed the business principles established by his father and Charles E. Merrill. He now owns and operates the Sugarbush Resort in Warren, Vermont.
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