'Accidental Investment Banker' to Speak at UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Jonathan Knee, author of "The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street," will speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

Knee's free public lecture, "Is Investment Banking a Profession?," will be sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Management and the UB Law School. It will be the third annual event in the Gerald S. Lippes Speaker Series.

Knee is a senior managing director at Evercore Partners. He teaches media mergers and acquisitions and co-teaches strategic management of media at the Columbia University Business School.

Prior to becoming an investment banker, Knee was director of international affairs at United Airlines and served as adjunct professor of law at Northwestern University.

He was a managing director and co-head of Morgan Stanley's Media Group before joining Evercore in 2003. Knee also served as publishing sector head in the Communications, Media and Entertainment Group at Goldman Sachs.

His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.

Knee's lecture from 7:30-8:30 p.m. will be followed by a question-and-answer session and a book signing. For more information, contact Dorothy Siaw-Asamoah at 716-645-3204 or dasamoah@buffalo.edu.

The Gerald S. Lippes Speaker Series focuses on current issues and topics related to business and finance. The series is part of a larger effort to foster an integrated understanding of the worlds of business and law, and to encourage a collaborative dialogue between business and legal professionals. Funding for the series is provided through the generous support of Gerald S. Lippes.