Trading down a notch; White-shoe dropout heads small bond broker; downtime drove family crazy.(Business Lives)(MarketAxess Holdings Inc)(T. Kelley Millet appointed as president)

Crain's New York Business, October, 2006 by Elstein, Aaron

Byline: Aaron Elstein In january, after 24 frenzied years as a globetrotting banker at J.P. Morgan and Bear Stearns, T. Kelley Millet decided to unplug. He spent part of the winter out West learning to ski and in the Caribbean learning to scuba dive. Spring came, and the divorced father of two attended a record number of his son's lacrosse games and his daughter's art shows.

He also had time to visit the gym up to five times a week, work on his golf game and traipse through every museum in the city. In short, he was driving everyone around him crazy. "My family said, `You need to go back to work, because we're really starting to hate all the free time you have,' '' Mr. Millet recalls. Fortunately, work quickly found the Wall Street veteran. A former...

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