Lightfoot Capital Partners is an investment partnership dealing in energy-related investments. It is a limited partnership based in New York City.
Henry Lehman was a German-American businessman and the founder of Lehman Brothers financial services, which declared bankruptcy in 2008. Hayum Lehmann was born to a Jewish family, the son of a cattle merchant Abraham Löw Lehmann in the small Franconian town of Rimpar near Würzburg,... Lehman emigrated to the United States in 1844. He settled in Montgomery, Alabama, and opened a dry goods store named, "H. Lehman". In 1847, following the arrival of his younger brother Emanuel Lehman, the firm became, "H. Lehman and Bro." With the 1850 arrival of Mayer Lehman, the youngest brother, the firm became "Lehman Brothers". In those years, cotton was the most important crop of the Southern United States. Capitalizing on cotton's extremely high market value around the world, the Lehman brothers became cotton factors, accepting cotton bales from customers as payment for their merchandise. They eventually began a second business as traders in cotton. Within a few years, this became the major part of their firm. In 1855, Henry Lehman died from yellow fever while travelling in New Orleans.more
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Richard Severin "Dick" Fuld, Jr. is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers. Fuld had held this position since the firm's 1994 spinoff from American Express until 2008. Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 on September 15, 2008, and... subsequently announced a sale of major operations to parties including Barclays Bank and Nomura Securities. Fuld was nicknamed the "Gorilla" on Wall Street for his competitiveness. Condé Nast Portfolio ranked Fuld number one on their Worst American CEOs of All Time list, stating he was "belligerent and unrepentant". Fuld was born in New York City, to Jewish parents, Richard Severin Fuld, Sr. and Elizabeth Schwab. He is also a second cousin of Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Sam Fuld. He received both a B.A. and B.S. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1969 and his M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business in 1973. While attending Colorado, Fuld participated in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program and was president of the school's chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity.more
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international affairs and is widely deemed the cultural capital of the world. The city is also referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the state of New York, of which it is a part. Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs which were consolidated in 1898: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. With a 2010 United States Census population of 8,175,133 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles , New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages could be spoken in New York, making it one of most linguistically diverse city in the World.more
Mr. Akers, a private investor, is the retired chairman of the Board of Directors of International Business Machines Corporation. Mr. Akers served as... chairman of the Board of Directors and chief executive officer of IBM from 1985 until his retirement in 1993, completing a 33-year career with IBM. Mr. Akers is a director of W.R. Grace & Co. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the former chairman of the Board of Governors of United Way of America. Mr. Akers was also a member of former President George Bush's Education Policy Advisory Committee. Mr. Akers has been a director of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. since 1996. He serves as the chairman of the Compensation and Benefits Committee and as a member of the Finance and Risk Committee.more
Ms. Marsha Johnson Evans served as president and chief executive officer of the American Red Cross from August 2002 to December 2005. She previously... served as the national executive director of Girl Scouts of the USA from January 1998 until July 2002. Ms. Evans was a career officer in the United States Navy, retiring as a rear admiral in January 1998.more
Mr. Roland A. Hernandez is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of Telemundo Group, Inc., a Spanish-language television station company.
Michael L. Ainslie, a private investor, is the former president, chief executive officer and a director of Sotheby's Holdings. Mr. Ainslie has... been a director of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. since 1996, and serves as a member of the Audit Committee.more
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