Greg Fleming
The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Greg Fleming reads as The Architect because he builds structures designed to outlast the moment. Engineering the BlackRock-Merrill transaction with precise weekend timing to exploit Lehman's isolation showed a leader who works in blueprints, not reactions. At Rockefeller Capital Management he has designed the firm around the full lifecycle of entrepreneurial wealth, institutional scaffolding that others then inhabit. Markets move, Fleming drafts, and the drafting is the leadership.
“We position black Rock to really go on the run. That has gone on since then. Obviously Larry and team has executed brilliantly. Merrill Lynch took back a forty nine percent ownership stake in black Rock. That was the part of the magic of the transaction.”
“I knew the value of a weekend, and I was pushing John Friday night and Saturday morning to initiate contact. I was very focused on trying to get the transaction done on the weekend because I thought that Lehman had no partner.”
“In the United States, much of the wealth for families comes from starting businesses. We wanted to make sure we had the capabilities to advise those families on what they should do with those businesses — whether to keep them private, sell, or take public.”
Masters in Business: “Greg Fleming on Shaping Wall Street (Podcast)”
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