Howard L. Clark Jr. was the former chairman and chief executive officer of Shearson Lehman Brothers, from 1990 to 1993. He died in Hobe Sound, Florida, on April 11, 2020 IESC Website

Early life and career

Clark graduated from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

in 1967. He received his MBA from

Columbia Business School Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University, a Private university, private research university in New York City. Established in 1916, Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and is one ...

in 1968. From 1968 to 1981, Clark worked at Paine Webber or its predecessor firms, eventually becoming managing director. Clark joined

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in 1981. He later became CFO in 1985. From 1990 until 1993, Clark served as chairman and CEO of Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc. He later served as vice chairman of

Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ( ) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1847. Before Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Gol ...

from 1993 to 2008, and then as vice chairman at Barclays Capital after 2008. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors for

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