Sandy Weill
1933 – ? American banker, financier
Architect of the modern Citigroup.
- Religion
- Jewish.
- Affiliations
- Built Citigroup through decades of mergers; former chairman and CEO; a major philanthropist to medicine and the arts.
Sanford Weill assembled a string of finance firms into Citigroup, the giant created by the 1998 Travelers and Citicorp merger. He mentored and then fired Jamie Dimon. He later gave heavily to Cornell's medical school and to the arts.
Connections
- mentor of Jamie Dimon — Groomed Dimon at Citigroup before dismissing him.
- student of Jamie Dimon — Weill mentored Dimon at Citigroup, then dismissed him.
In the timeline
- 1997 Travelers acquires Salomon Brothers mentioned