Clark, a Rhodes scholar and West Point graduate, works as an investment banker in Little Rock.
But in 1983 he threatened to leave to seek a career as an investment banker in London.
This turning point saw him quit his job as an investment banker to become a full time adventurist.
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Frank graduated in Arabic and Islamic Studies and previously worked as an investment banker before joining the BBC.
Poindexter worked as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers while earning a doctorate in economics at New York University.
Alex Bernstein spent 17 years as an investment banker and also purchased Google stock before it went public.
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He started his career as an investment banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert and received an MBA from The Wharton School.
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He also worked in the private sector as an investment banker and headed the investigation into the United Nations' oil-for-food program for Iraq.
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Mr. Toyoda says he honed his driving skills in the 1980s driving a used Porsche in Manhattan, where he was working as an investment banker.
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Richards, 37, started Global Rescue in 2004, after a spending nearly a decade as an investment banker and private equity investor on Wall Street.
She was entering her fifth year as an investment banker on Wall Street, and it was clear that something other than the long-hours was bringing her down.
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The qualified solicitor also worked as an investment banker and venture capital fund manager and was named in The Power List of the UK's 100 most influential black Britons.
For the past two years, Fuld has worked as an investment banker at a boutique firm known as Legend Securities, likely donning the customary pinstripes rather than the prison stripes he deserves.
WorldCom used Salomon as its investment banker, giving the firm an interest in keeping WorldCom stock high.
Her husband, an investment banker who later served as the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland during the Nixon and Ford administrations, died in 1994.
After all, to state the bloomin' obvious, he is an investment banker - who, as a breed, are not flavour of the month.
Sperling is seen as having an edge over two other leading contenders, investment banker Roger Altman and Yale University President Richard Levin.
Mr Key, a 47-year-old former Merrill Lynch investment banker, has highlighted his financial-sector experience as an asset in a political leader at a time when an understanding of complex financial issues is paramount.
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