John Gutfreund - Biography

John H. Gutfreund (born September 1929) is the former CEO of Salomon Brothers Inc, an investment bank that gained notoriety in the 1980s. Gutfreund turned Salomon Brothers from a private partnership into a publicly traded corporation which started a trend in Wall Street for investment companies to go public. He became the icon for the excess that defined the 1980s culture in America. In 1985, Business Week gave him the nickname "King of Wall Street".

External links

• John Gutfreund is the former CEO of Salomon Brothers
• John Gutfreund's video interview
• Nightly Business Report Interview -- John Gutfreund of Gutfreund & Company Examines The Financial Crisis
• Liars Poker II, Timesonline analysis of Gutfreund's influence