Craig Schiffer, Ex-Lehman Executive, Dies in Avalanche at 58 Craig Schiffer, who held global leadership roles at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Nomura International and Dresdner Kleinwort during a 35-year career in finance, has died. He was 58. He died on Dec. 23 after being caught in an avalanche while skiing in Grenoble, France, according to his daughter, Jessica Schiffer. A resident of Summit, New Jersey, Craig Schiffer had a vacation home outside Annecy, France, about 66 miles (107 kilometers) north of Grenoble, and was there on a ski trip with some of his children. He was buried in snow for 15 minutes and died in route to a hospital, Edwin McGuinn, a former Lehman colleague, said yesterday in a telephone interview. Schiffer’s children and their ski guide survived. McGuinn, who is now chairman of Stamford, Connecticut-based consultant ASH Advisory LLC, worked with Schiffer at Lehman from 1980 to the mid-1990s. More recently they worked together again, as leaders of an ad hoc committee of former Lehman executives fighting some decisions of the trustee in charge of Lehman’s liquidation. New York-based Lehman was forced into bankruptcy in September 2008, the most prominent victim of the global financial crisis. ‘Strategic Thinker’ “His real background was credit — he was an absolute [...] newsintx/craig-schiffer-ex-lehman-executive-dies-in-avalanche-at-58/
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 23:40:33 +0000
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