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Interview with John Duffy, chairman & CEO of KBW Conducted by Mary Fetchet we can do to make sure that this is as great a product as it clearly can be. We couldn’t be more pleased to be affiliated with it. Obviously, there are strong emotional attachments. Mary’s son Brad worked for the firm and I think initially there might have been a sense of obligation on our part to be involved, but as we started to see this thing get traction, it’s a lot less of a job and it’s more of something you really want to make sure gets done. To that extent, our hats are off to the folks at 9/11 and we’re proud to be kind of part of the story, kind of making it happen and we’ll do whatever we can do to make sure as many of our employees stories are told. [Mary]: So I twisted your arm [Laughter.] Irish guilt, right [John]: Minimal, but you know if you weren’t persistent, it wouldn’t have happened. [Mary]: Well I have a funny story, you were talking about Andy Senchak, how his life was saved by having this hearing that he had to go to. We just did a story recently on somebody that was going for an interview at Windows of the World and she was running late so she called the people at Windows of the World and they said, Well it’s about time to have a cigarette break so we’ll come downstairs to meet you instead and that saved their life and so someone was kidding, Well it’s the first time, we can say a cigarette saved your life. We hear a lot of funny, I mean funny [John]: Ironic, or something [Mary]: Stories like that. So you never know. [John]: You never know. [Mary]: But I think the relationships that have come out of 9/11[unknown]. I know I’ve felt really, you know, really, it’s been a wonderful experience working with KBW and I just – Brad thought so much of the firm and now Chris, when we was here last year, really enjoyed it. Because he sort of steered clear of anything related to 9/11 so I think getting to know people that knew Brad, he learned sort of a different perspective. [John]: Yeah, everybody’s on their own time clock, and I wouldn’t even really hazard a guess with the younger children. Some of them I’m sure – my guess is 20 years from now, we’ll read a story about someone who’s working at the Museum who’s a son, or daughter of somebody that was killed. We have a young gal in corporate finance. I don’t think she mentioned it at all in the interview process. She was coming out of NYU. Her father worked for Cantor, and it wasn’t until she joined us that she actually told somebody that she had lost her father. So now kind of a new connection – kind of with Cantor we’ve got a, you know, she’s 23 years old, she’s been here maybe a year and a half. Peter Wirth was the one who said to me, he said, You know, I don’t know if you know but Elizabeth Dickey’s father died in 9/11. [Mary]: Oh that’s right, I know Irene, her mother. [John]: The daughter is working here. [Mary]: Because I think Irene was in our office in CT when we were at KBW, so it was sort of an odd twist that she was in our office, and we were here, and her daughter was working here. So
Interview with John Duffy, chairman & CEO of KBW Conducted by Mary Fetchet there’s all those connections. And you’re probably still shepherding people that you don’t even realize you’re shepherding in a way. [John]: Probably right.
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