Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> August 21, 2000

Jeffrey Lane – Neuberger Berman Inc (neu)

JEFFREY B. LANE is President and Chief Executive Officer of Neuberger Berman, Inc. He joined Neuberger Berman, LLC in July 1998 as a Principal and Chief Administrative Officer. Mr. Lane was previously with Travelers Group as Vice Chairman, working closely with the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in the management of the company's various administrative functions and operating units. He was responsible for the human resources, corporate communications and investor relations functions. Before assuming those responsibilities in early 1996, he was Vice Chairman of the company's Smith Barney subsidiary, responsible for asset management, mutual funds, international, futures and commodities divisions. Prior to his affiliation with Travelers Group, Mr. Lane spent his career, since 1969, with Shearson Lehman Brothers and its predecessor firms ' certain businesses of which were combined with Smith Barney in 1993. From 1987 to 1989, he served as Shearson's President and Chief Operating Officer and was on the Board of Directors from 1982 to 1989. Prior to that he had been the firm's Chief Operating Officer, administrator of its capital markets division, and in various management positions in institutional sales, taxable fixed income trading and risk arbitrage. He began his career as a securities analyst in a predecessor firm to Shearson. Mr. Lane is a graduate of New York University and holds an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is a director of the North Shore/Long Island Jewish Health System, Director of the National Academy of Finance and of the New York City Academy of Finance. Profile
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