| Headline: Robert Lessin: CEO, Wit Soundview Source: Euromoney Date: July 2000 Author:Antony Currie Running a company is hectic at the best of times, but the last two months have been especially hectic for Bob Lessin. So much so, in fact, that the only time he has available for an interview is while he gets his hair cut at a barber's shop around the corner from his office in New York's Silicon Alley the area around Union Square. He has his luggage with him as he is about to leave for the airport, and he has a photographer walking around with him to get snaps for a book he is writing. Since April Bob Lessin has overseen the introduction of Vostock, the firm's electronic platform for issuing secondary offerings making Wit the first e-underwriter to enter this space; has negotiated the acquisition of west-coast rival E*Offering; and at the same time struck up a partnership with E*Offering's parent, E*Trade, making it the sole distributor of Wit's IPO and secondary offering output. And to cap it off, Lessin has just been made sole CEO of the group. |