Wall Street Crush

A while back I was at a get together with some friends and they were talking about their first celebrity crushes... JTT came up, as did Leonardo DiCaprio.

While I couldn't recall my first celebrity crush, I can vividly remember my first Wall Street crush. I fell in lust/like whilst flying overseas and reading Fortune. Who was it?

John Thain.

At the time of reading the article, Thain was the last Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch.

I instantly adored him. Which naturally led to my hatred of Ken Lewis when Merrill merged with Bank of America. That press conference was terribly hard to watch for me.

I was reminded of my school girl like crush when Cal and I were watching The Last Days of Lehman on Sunday. Goodness, I love finance.

Here's a GQ-esque photo of Mr. Thain. He was a good Wall Street crush.