CEO Lecture Series

Even for a seasoned executive, putting together two legacy banks dedicated to the money matters of the wealthy was a daunting task.

Keith Banks, who oversaw the merger of U.S. Trust and Bank of America’s Private Bank beginning in 2007, talked about it recently as a test of leadership style and decisiveness.

Ernst & Young CEO James Turley told a group of Rutgers students last week that the world’s shifting demographics are changing business as profoundly as new technology and regulation, and he urged them to experience different cultures by living overseas. [See photos.]

Rutgers alumnus Dennis M. Bone, MBA '84, has been inducted into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni for his leadership in telecommunications technology, as president of Verizon New Jersey. Bone, one of the state’s highest-profile business leaders, has worked to advance and strengthen the state’s labor pool by leading New Jersey to the forefront of broadband telecommunications in the nation.

As President of Verizon New Jersey Inc. responsible for all of Verizon’s corporate interests in New Jersey, Dennis Bone has had a unique vantage point in seeing how the boom in telecommunications has changed business models forever. Students, faculty, alumni and prospective students in a packed auditorium at Rutgers Business School’s (RBS) state-of-the-art building at 1 Washington Park in Newark’s University Heights, were treated to a discussion about how changes in the Telecom Industry are affecting all of business today.

Energetic and entertaining, Joseph Pieroni, engaged a packed auditorium full of MBA students, alumni, and curious onlookers, on the implications for the biopharma industry as health care evolves in the next decade. Pieroni, who got his MBA from Rutgers Business School, is CEO of the US subsidiary of the Japanese pharmaceutical giant Diaiichi Sankyo.

One of the most successful alumni in Rutgers Business School’s history, Thomas, A. Renyi (RBS MBA ’68), CEO and Chairman, The Bank of New York Mellon (1997-2008), spoke to a packed auditorium about his experiences running America’s oldest bank during chaotic times. Located two blocks from the World Trade Center, Renyi led the bank through the turmoil caused by 9/11. He also managed the bank – founded by Alexander Hamilton – through two major organizational changes, the mergers with Pershing LLC in 2003 and Mellon Corporation in 2007.