| Jeff Peek | ||||||
It’s being presented as a resignation, but it is clear there was no place for Peek after he lost out to Stan O’Neal in the race to be president and COO, and thereby heir apparent to the CEO. But Merrill has been known for preferring consistency over office politics: when David Komansky was earmarked for CEO in the early 1990s, he made a point of asking his main rival, John Launny Steffens, to run the retail brokerage arm.
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