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Alan  GREENBERG

 

 Nato a Oklahoma City nel 1927, Richard Alan Greenberg detto Ace, quando era uno studente universitario è stato un giocatore di calcio che, dopo essersi laureato all'Università del Missouri nel 1949, si è trasferito a New York per iniziare come impiegato la sua carriera presso la Bear Stearns, società nella quale sarebbe diventato una figura leggendaria, ricoprendo tutte le cariche da quella di Partner a quella di CEO e di Chairman.

 Divorziato e  risposato nel 1987 con Kathryn Adele Olson ha una figlia, Lynen Frey che è stata la prima donna ad avere un proprio posto nella Amex.

 Suo padre Theodore, è stato il fondatore della catena Street's e lui, che è anche stato Amministratore della New York University, è uno dei maggiori filantropi mondiali avendo donato in beneficenza milioni di dollari americani.

Nel mondo del Bridge è un ottimo giocatore di livello nazionale che ha vinto la Reisinger del 1977.

 

Alan C. "Ace" Greenberg (born September 3, 1927) is a former Chairman of the Executive Committee of The Bear Stearns Companies Inc.

He began work at Bear Stearns in 1949 as a clerk. He served as Chairman of the Board of Bear Stearns from 1985 to 2001, and as its CEO from 1978 to 1993. Greenberg serves also as a director of Bear Stearns and a non-executive director of Viacom. He is the author of Memos from the Chairman, which is a compilation of humorous but meaningful memos he issued to the associates of Bear Stearns during his tenure as CEO.

While serving as Chairman of the Executive Committee for Bear Sterns, Greenberg saw the collapse of the company in March of 2008. He was subsequently involved in the talks with JPMorgan Chase, who bought out the failing Bear Sterns at $2 a share on March 24, 2008.

On April 24, 2008, it was reported in Fortune that Greenberg agreed to join JPMorgan Chase & Co. as vice chairman of Bear’s retail business.

Greenberg is an avid bridge player, having won the Reisinger Board-a-Match Teams in 1977.

In 1981, he won the Maccabiah Games teams bridge tournament, part of the quadrennial Jewish Olympics, and was second in the Reisinger later that year.

Greenberg is also a member of the Society of American Magicians. In 1998, Greenberg was the subject of a 999-word profile in People Magazine that trumpeted his $1 million donation to New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery to underwrite Viagra prescriptions for financially needy, impotent men.

"You do some nutty things," Greenberg stated and he told People that his wife Kathryn told him, "you've made your money, and you can spend it any way you want." That philanthropic gesture topped the time Greenberg paid to repair the bathrooms at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Alan Greenberg is married to Kathy Greenberg, who is the Board Chair of Cardozo School of Law and the founder of the New York Legal Assistance Group.

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