Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill ( born March 16, 1933 Brooklyn, New York ) is the former chairman and founder of Citigroup.
Life
He is the son of Max Weill and Etta Kalika, who came as a Jewish immigrant from Poland. On June 20, 1955 married Sandy Weill Joan Mosher, with whom he has two children. The couple lives in Greenwich, Connecticut. They have two children (Marc Weill, Jessica Weill Bibliowicz ) and four grandchildren.
His career was in 1985 already as ended when he resigned in a dispute with Amexco. But Sandy Weill bought in 1986 82 percent of the city was still on the brink of Consumer Credit Commercial Credit Bank of Control Data. He managed to rehabilitate the Commercial Credit, and then to grow through acquisitions and on. A decisive turning point marks the merger of Citicorp initiated by him with the led by Weill Travelers Group. This was created with Citigroup the still largest financial services providers in the world.
As the founder of Citigroup Sandy Weill is one of the most influential men in the world of finance; In 2000, his annual salary (including stock options and bonus payments) by Forbes Magazine to more than 200 million U.S. dollars was estimated. After the financial crisis of 2008 took him Time magazine's list of the 25 people who were most responsible for the crisis.