Vikram Pandit: The switch from banking to tech

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Fifty years of capital markets Jim Amine Samir Assaf Jean-Francois Astier Allegra Berman Mandy DeFilippo Jerry del Missier Bob Diamond Tyler Dickson Eric Dobkin Martin Egan Jim Esposito Peter Hancock Guy Hands Jeremy Isaacs Conor Killeen John McNiven Chris O’Malley Vikram Pandit Hans-Joerg Rudloff John St John Paul Tregidgo Matthew Westerman

The thing that Vikram Pandit remembers most about joining Morgan Stanley in 1983 is the way a small firm preserves its culture. 

“I was interviewed by many of the partners,” recalls Pandit. “And the dominant theme was doing first-class business in a first-class way.