Douglas A. Warner III
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Douglas 'Sandy' Warner is an American
United States
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 banker who joined Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York out of college in 1968 as an officer's assistant and rose through the ranks to become chairman of the board
Chairman of the Board
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 of J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc. in 2000. Among his many accomplishments, Warner may be best known for spearheading the 2000 sale of J P Morgan & Co. to Chase Manhattan Bank
Chase Manhattan Bank
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., doing business as Chase, is a national bank that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of financial services firm JPMorgan Chase. The bank was known as Chase Manhattan Bank until it merged with J.P. Morgan & Co. in 2000...

 for $30.9 billion.

Early life

Douglas Alexander Warner III was born on June 9, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...

 as the eldest son to Douglas Alexander Warner Jr. and Eleanor (Wright) W. Warner. He has a brother, Gordon, and a sister, Marjorie. Warner came from money, growing up in the high-toned suburb of Indian Hill
Indian Hill, Ohio
The Village of Indian Hill is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and an affluent suburb of the Greater Cincinnati area. The population was 5,907 at the 2000 census. Prior to 1970, Indian Hill was incorporated as a village, but under Ohio law became designated as a city once its...

 in a family with local social standing. For example, Warner's father served as a trustee of the Cincinnati Music Hall Association
Music Hall (Cincinnati)
Music Hall, completed in 1878, is Cincinnati's premier classical music performance hall. It serves as the home for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, May Festival Chorus, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. In January, 1975, it was recognized as a National Historic Landmark by the...

 and Art Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum
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 and chaired the United Appeal one year. Warner's grandfather (and namesake) ran his own insurance firm and was active in local golfing circles. Grandmother Warner was the daughter of a wealthy Cincinnati entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
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 named J. Stacey Hill, who was the president of a then-prominent thousand-room Cincinnati hotel named Hotel Gibson.

In 1960 Warner's family shipped the 14-year-old Warner 500 miles away from his home in Ohio to The Hill School
The Hill School
The Hill School is a preparatory boarding school for boys and girls located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, about 35 miles northwest of Philadelphia....

, a college-preparatory boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Pottstown is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States northwest of Philadelphia and southeast of Reading, on the Schuylkill River. Pottstown was laid out in 1752–53 and named Pottsgrove in honor of its founder, John Potts. The old name was abandoned at the time of the...

 (it admitted only boys at the time); Warner's father had graduated from the same school in 1937. While a student at The Hill, Warner played junior hockey 1960-61, junior varsity (JV) hockey 1961-62, and varsity hockey 1962-64. Warner graduated from there in 1964, the same year as Academy Award
Academy Awards
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-winning producer/director Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
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.

Education and career

From The Hill School, Warner applied to Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

, the same school attended by his father and uncle. In 1964, Warner entered Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 at the age of 18 as a pre-med
Pre-medical
Pre-medical is a term used to describe a track an undergraduate student in the United States pursues prior to becoming a medical student...

 student. At age 18, Warner was of draft age but most likely held a 2-S (college deferment) Selective Service System classification
Selective Service System
The Selective Service System is a means by which the United States government maintains information on those potentially subject to military conscription. Most male U.S. citizens and male immigrant non-citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 are required by law to have registered within 30 days of...

 as a student at Yale University. During his time at Yale, Warner became friends with the future President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

 through then-Yale ice hockey player Roland W. Betts
Roland W. Betts
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 - now owner of the multimillion dollar Chelsea Piers Sports & Entertainment Complex.
Chelsea Piers
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 This friendship would prove valuable as President Bush later named Warner as a financial adviser to President-elect
President-elect
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 Bush's transition team in 2000.

At the peak of the Vietnam war
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

 upheaval in the United States in May 1968, Warner graduated from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 with a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
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 degree and intended to go to Yale medical school after leaving Yale undergraduate. Without a college deferment, Warner most likely would have been classified as 1-A, that is to say, classified as available immediately for military service. For example, President Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

 was classified as 1-A on Bush's graduation from Yale in May 1968 and was accepted into the Texas Air National Guard
Texas Air National Guard
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 at the height of the ongoing Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

.

With the Vietnam war and Yale medical school choices facing Warner, Warner looked to a third option based on advice from his father, an insurance man from Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...

. Warner's father advised Warner to go into business to develop some "breadth" and subsequently Warner entered the management training program at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in New York City
New York City
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. At that time, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company was a wholly owned subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (formerly J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated). Over the next seven years, Warner rapidly advanced from officer's assistant (1968–1970), through assistant treasurer (1970–1972) and assistant Vice President (1972–1975), to Vice President in 1975.

On May 13, 1977, Warner married Patricia G. Grant and produced four children, Alexander, Katherine, Michael, and Alice (deceased), and now, along with Patricia's brother Thomas, are residents of Locust Valley, N.Y
Locust Valley, New York
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.

In 1983, at age 37, Warner was transferred to London
London
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, England
England
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 and was named Senior Vice President. First, Warner was in charge of United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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 and Scandinavia
Scandinavia
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n banking operations and then became the head of oil and gas lending for the region. In becoming the general manager of the London office and Morgan's senior executive in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 in 1986, Warner received extensive experience in U.S. and international corporate finance
Corporate finance
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.

In 1987, Warner was promoted to Executive Vice President and returned to New York city to take charge of North America
North America
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n and South America
South America
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n corporate finance
Corporate finance
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 and, later that year, of the entire group worldwide.

In 1989, Warner became Managing Director of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and elected president and a director in 1990. After rising through the ranks in various positions in London
London
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 and New York
New York
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, Warner succeeded Dennis Weatherstone
Dennis Weatherstone
Sir Dennis Weatherstone KBE was the former CEO and Chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co.. He attended the Northwest Polytechnic...

 in 1995 as Morgan's youngest CEO ever at age 49. From 1995 to 2000, Warner served as chairman and chief executive officer. In 1999, Warner was ranked 14th of the "25 Highest Paid Banking Executives in 1999" with a total compensation for the year of US$9,916,151. In 2000, Warner was mentioned as a possible candidate for President Bush's Treasury secretary along with Enron
Enron
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 head Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lay
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 and a few others. However, Warner was elevated to chairman of the board of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., The Chase Manhattan Bank and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, NY in 2000 and served there until his retirement on September 7, 2001. Instead, President Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

 named Warner as a financial adviser to President-elect
President-elect
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 Bush's transition team in 2000.

2000 merger and retirement

Warner may be best known for spearheading the sale of J P Morgan & Co. to Chase Manhattan Bank
Chase Manhattan Bank
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., doing business as Chase, is a national bank that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of financial services firm JPMorgan Chase. The bank was known as Chase Manhattan Bank until it merged with J.P. Morgan & Co. in 2000...

 through its then CEO William Harrison
William B. Harrison, Jr.
William B. Harrison, Jr., born August 12, 1943 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is the former CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase. He attended high school at Virginia Episcopal School, where he was a basketball star. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was admitted...

 for $30.9 billion.

In retirement, Warner is a director of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Anheuser-Busch
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 and Motorola, Inc.
Motorola
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, a member of the Board of Counselors of The Bechtel Group, Inc.
Bechtel
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, chairman of the Board of Managers and the Board of Overseers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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, serves as the Chair of the General Electric
General Electric
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 Audit committee, and serves on both the General Electric Nominating committee and Corporate Governance and Management Development and Compensation committee. Warner is a member of the Business Council, a trustee of the Pierpont Morgan Library, and a member of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (CECP). In between such retirement, Warner enjoys golf, skiing, and shooting as a member of Links Club, River Club, Meadowbrook Club (Long Island, New York), Augusta National Golf Club
Augusta National Golf Club
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, and Wequetonsing Golf Club(Harbor Springs, MI).

Warner was recently selected for a coveted six year term on the Yale Corporation
Yale Corporation
The Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.The Corporation comprises 19 members:...

, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

’s governing body.

Business legacy

Analysts say that Mr. Warner was a key figure throughout the 1980s and 1990s in the transformation of J.P. Morgan from a commercial bank to an investment banking firm. For example, J.P. Morgan was the first commercial bank since the 1930s to be granted the power to underwrite
Underwriting
Underwriting refers to the process that a large financial service provider uses to assess the eligibility of a customer to receive their products . The name derives from the Lloyd's of London insurance market...

 debt and equity securities. Under Warner, the firm ended lifelong job security as a result of a 1998 restructuring. One of his biggest cultural marks on J.P. Morgan was the creation of the "House Arrest" group, a dozen or so senior executives who met monthly to discuss management issues.

Philanthropy

  • A loyal Hill School
    The Hill School
    The Hill School is a preparatory boarding school for boys and girls located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, about 35 miles northwest of Philadelphia....

     Annual Fund donor, Warner funded the Douglas A. Warner Chapel Program Fund in honor of his father, the late Douglas A. Warner Jr. '37. Warner has also served The Hill School as a term and corporate trustee. Warner gave $100,000 to have the ice hockey rink replaced.
  • Warner is a member of the Business Council, a trustee of the Pierpont Morgan Library, and a member of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (CECP).

Awards

In 1998, Warner was an invited Gordon Grand Fellow lecturer at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

, and in 2001, he was awarded the Leadership Award from The Hill School. As an alumnus of The Hill School, Warner had proven himself "to be an exemplary leader and true role model for students in his vocation."

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