Greg Fleming

摘要

When Greg Fleming walks briskly into the conference room on the eighth floor of Merrill Lynch headquarters in downtown Manhattan, he's already running way behind schedule. During an interview about the bank's plans for 2004 and beyond, he breaks just once to get some water for a dry cough - a hint of his relentless schedule. A youthful 40-year-old, Mr Fleming is plain-spoken and turbo-charged. Known as a perfectionist among colleagues, he exudes the energy of someone who has not paused since he was installed as president of global markets and investment banking (that was in August - a trying juncture for the bank). When he was named as head of origination and his colleague Dow Kim was appointed copresident of the group with responsibility for debt, Arshad Zakaria had just resigned under pressure as sole head of the group. That resignation came a week after executive vice-chairman Thomas Patrick, his staunch supporter for a wider role at the company, was ousted.