The Savage Way Successfully Navigating the Waves of Business and Life

by Savage, Frank; Cosby, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781118494608
• ISBN10: 1118494601
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-06
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The Savage Way recounts the most important challenges and opportunities of Frank Savage's lengthy career in business and finance, including investing in Africa, traveling and working in Japan, parallels between success in sailing and in business, and the famous scandals of Enron. This is a personal memoir on the level of Bloomberg by Bloomberg, opening with Enron, Frank's mother as his inspiration, his travels and experience investing in Africa, studying at Howard University, his first banking job at Citibank and afterward in Liberia, "Black Capitalism" at Equitable, lessons from investing in Africa (Zambia, in particular), working in Japan for Alliance Capital and the discovery of a rogue trader, the collapse of Enron and fall-out from scandal, and Frank's days as a competitive yachtsman. Chapter 1: Too Much Money Chapter 2: Getting In, Struggling out, Getting Right Chapter 3: La Savage, the Source and Inspiration Chapter 4: The Journey to True Origins Chapter 5: My Journey Deepens Chapter 6: The Longer Road Home Chapter 7: Africa Calls Once Again... Chapter 8: Walking Over A Bridge Not Burned Chapter 9: Sailing LOLITA, Pulling It All Together

Author Biography

FRANK SAVAGE, Chairman Emeritus of Howard University, served as chairman of Howard University from 1997 until 2004 and is credited with spearheading the widely successful Campaign for Howard. He is CEO of Savage Holdings LLC, a global financial services company. Prior to forming Savage Holdings, he was chairman of Alliance Capital Management International, a division of Alliance Capital Management, a $700 billion asset management subsidiary of AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company. Mr. Savage has had a distinguished career in international banking, corporate finance, and global investment management. He serves on the boards of several corporations and nonprofit organizations, including Bloomberg LP and the New York Academy of Medicine, having previously served on the boards of Lockheed Martin, Qualcomm, and the New York Philharmonic. Savage earned a BA from Howard University and an MA from the Johns Hopkins' Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Hofstra University and an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Howard University. Perhaps the award he is proudest of is the prestigious Lord Nelson Trophy as 2003 overall winner of the annual Antigua Race Week Regatta.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Too Much Money

Chapter 2: Getting In, Struggling out, Getting Right

Chapter 3: La Savage, the Source and Inspiration

Chapter 4: The Journey to True Origins

Chapter 5: My Journey Deepens

Chapter 6: The Longer Road Home

Chapter 7: Africa Calls Once Again...

Chapter 8: Walking Over a Bridge Not Burned

Chapter 9: Sailing LOLITA, Pulling It All Together

LOLITA Racing Record

Acknowledgments

Index