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Robert Emmet Brennan (born 1944) is an American businessman and former accountant who built the infamous penny stock brokerage firm, First Jersey Securities. The firm specialized in promoting penny stocks to unsuspecting investors, many of them elderly, who lost their entire investments when the stocks inevitably crashed.
Mellon Securities Corporation: First Boston Corporation: 1947 Lonsdale Investment Trust: Robert Benson & Co. Robert Benson Lonsdale: 1956 Eastman Dillon & Co. Union Securities: Eastman Dillon Union Securities & Co. 1957 S. G. Warburg & Co. Seligman Bros. S. G. Warburg & Co. 1961 Robert Benson Lonsdale: Kleinwort, Sons & Co. Kleinwort Benson ...
MCA Inc. (originally an initialism for Music Corporation of America) was an American media conglomerate founded in 1924. Originally a talent agency with artists in the music business as clients, the company became a major force in the film industry, and later expanded into television production.
Edward Crosby Johnson II was born in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1898, to Samuel Johnson, a partner in the dry-goods firm C.F. Hovey and Co. and Josephine Johnson (née Forbush). [1]
G.X. was founded in 1979. It was registered with the SEC as an institutional dealer in fixed-income securities. In 2016, the company acquired Sterne Agee. The sale included Sterne Agee’s clearing business and RIA businesses. INTL purchased the company from Stifel, just over a year after Stifel bought Sterne Agee as part of a $150 million ...
Cancro changed the company's name to Jersey Mike's when he began franchising in 1987. He later rolled out a program to help store managers become franchise owners, which he named after his old coach.
The firm closed its first year of business with revenue of $186 million, completing $23 billion in transactions, including advising Yahoo! in their $4.6 billion merger with GeoCities. The firm's performance led Investment Dealer's Digest to name Weisel Investment Banker of the Year in 1999, and Harvard Business School used Thomas Weisel ...
He co-founded the independent record label I.R.S. Records in 1979, [1] and later served as the president of Universal/MCA Music Publishing and the president of MCA Records. [2] He is the founder of the entertainment company Liberation Entertainment [3] and is chairman of the Isolation Entertainment board of directors. [4] In 2013, he co-founded ...