Seer on the Street; 1.(Sandy Weill, Citicorp's chief executive officer)(Brief Article)

Crain's New York Business, June, 2002 by Gandel, Stephen

Sandy weill's favorite seat in his office is a couch facing a photograph of his childhood home, a Bensonhurst walkup. He likes to sit sideways on the couch, with his feet propped up. Approachable, stocky, he doesn't seem like the chief executive of the world's largest financial services firm, a man worth $1.6 billion.

But then, Mr. Weill, 69, has never been one to conform. When he arrived on Wall Street 47 years ago, it was an industry comprising hundreds of rivals vying for transactions. He began the wave of consolidations that transformed the industry into one dominated by behemoths. Along the way, the Jewish boy from Brooklyn broke the unspoken rule that Wall Street executives had to be tall, patrician and Protestant. He opened the door for other...

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