The Wall Street 150

Golf Digest's inaugural ranking of the top golfers in finance includes Walker Cuppers, club champions and movers and shakers who love to play the game

Wall Street

By Lisa Furlong
Photo illustration By Hugh Syme October 2007

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NAME
INDEX COMPANY TITLE
1. Trip Kuehne +4.9 Double Eagle Capital Management (Irving, Tex.) President, Senior Managing Partner
2. Sean Knapp +4.5 Fuhrer's Inc. (Pittsburgh) Vice President
3. Brent Dorman +3.2 Morgan Stanley (Ocala, Fla.) Investment Consultant
T-4. Kevin Hammer +3.0 Merrill Lynch (Delray Beach, Fla.) Investment Advisor
T-4. Roger Hoit +3.0 Morgan Stanley (New York) Managing Director
6. Carlton Forrester +2.9 Harbert Management (Birmingham, Ala.) Managing Director
7. Alan Fadel +2.8 Merrill Lynch (Sylvania, Ohio) Financial Advisor
8. Frank Ford III +2.0 Smith Barney (Charleston, S.C.) Senior Vice President-Wealth Management
9. Gary Vanier +1.9 First Allied (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) Financial Advisor
10. Kevin Cahill +1.7 A.G. Edwards (Waukesha, Wis.) Financial Consultant, Vice President Of Investments
11. William L. Hadden III +1.6 RBC Dain Rauscher (Manchester, Vt.) Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor
12. Randy Haag +1.2 Aspenwood Capital (Burlingame, Calif.) Managing Director
13. John B. Kiernan +1.1 Cowen And Co. (New York) Managing Director
14. Kemp Richardson +1.0 JKR & Co. (Laguna Beach, Calif.) President
15. Martin R. West III +0.9 UBS Financial Services (Bethesda, Md.) Vice President
T-16. Tristan Lewis +0.7 Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. (Cleveland) Investment Advisor
T-16. D. Scott Mackesy +0.7 Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (New York) General Partner
18. George J. Zahringer III +0.6 Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. (New York) Senior Managing Director
19. David Boesel +0.5 Morgan Stanley (Winter Park, Fla.) Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor
20. Richard A. Petit +0.4 Morgan Stanley (Menlo Park, Calif.) Executive Director
T-21. Frank Abbott +0.1 Abbott Group International (Napa, Calif.) Managing Director
T-21. John Pate +0.1 Merrill Lynch (Montecito, Calif.) Vice President, Financial Advisor
T-21. Noel Volpe +0.1 Deutsche Bank Securities (New York) Financial Sponsors Group
24. Jonathan F. Spitalny 0 Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. (New York) Senior Managing Director
25. Tracy Welch 0.1 Credit Suisse (Boston) Vice President, Institutional Equity Sales
26. Frank Edwards 0.2 Aqueduct Capital Group (Charlotte) Co-Founder, Managing Partner
27. Andrew Kaskel 0.4 Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. (New York) Managing Director
28. Hans Albertsson 1.0 Lehman Brothers (New York) Private Investment Manager
29. Stephen Worth 1.1 Evercore Partners (New York) Managing Director
30. Craig R. Johnson 1.3 JMP Group (San Francisco) President
31. Tom Collins 1.4 Lehman Brothers (Boston) Vice President
T-32. Walter J. Driver Jr. 2.1 Goldman Sachs & Co. (Atlanta) Chairman-Southeast
T-32. Stuart Francis 2.1 Lehman Brothers (Menlo Park, Calif.) Vice Chairman
T-32. Christopher (Chip) Lippman 2.1 The Carlyle Group (Washington, D.C.) Managing Director
35. J. Anthony Forstmann 2.2 Forstmann Little & Co. (New York) Limited Partner, Managing Director
36. Charles E. Noreen Jr. 2.3 Com Ventures (Palo Alto, Calif.) CFO
37. Dick Siderowf 2.4 RBC Dain Rauscher (Southport, Conn.) Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor
38. Chris Greendale 2.5 Kodiak Venture Partners (Waltham, Mass.) General Partner
39. Jimmy Dunne III 2.9 Sandler O'Neill + Partners (New York) Senior Managing Principal
40. Eric Gleacher 3.3 Gleacher & Partners (New York) Principal
41. Brian C. Pfeifler 3.4 Morgan Stanley (New York) Managing Director
42. Jeffrey A. Golman 3.5 Mesirow Financial (Chicago) Vice Chairman, Head Of Investment Banking
43. George Roberts 3.8 KKR (Menlo Park, Calif.) Founding Partner
44. William Payne 3.9 Gleacher & Partners (New York) Vice Chairman
45. Theodore J. (Ted) Forstmann 4.2 Forstmann Little & Co. (New York) Chairman
46. Wayne Robinson 4.4 Wachovia Capital Markets LLC (Charlotte) Managing Director, Head Of Capital Finance
47. Herbert (Bart) McDade III 4.5 Lehman Brothers (New York) Global Head Of Equities
48. Bradley D. Akason 4.6 Lincoln International LLC (Chicago) Managing Director
T-49. Tom Crotty 4.7 Battery Ventures (Waltham, Mass.) General Partner
T-49. Steve Greenberg 4.7 Allen & Co. LLC (New York) General Partner
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