He's now the CEO of Societe Generale Americas, CNBC reports. According to the Financial Times, Mayer turned down a $27 million offer to join JPMorgan after its merger with Bear Stearns and instead ...

Perhaps learning from his failures, he now sits on the board of aluminium producer Alcoa. 5. James Cayne, CEO, Bear Stearns The architect of the collapse of Bear Stearns, former CEO James Cayne had ...

Bear Stearns in a sense was saved ... after all, he had been CEO of Goldman Sachs. He was very highly regarded by his peers. The general view was that he understood extremely well the financial ...

The CEO of JPMorgan Chase helped save the banking ... of the bank's 2008 acquisition of the troubled investment bank Bear Stearns. "Would I have done Bear Stearns again knowing what I know today?