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This morning Lanty Smith, the chairman of the company, also took over as interim CEO. One of his first duties was to send an email to Wachovia's employees. Read the email after the jump. Action by the Board of Directors ...

Wachovia execs to receive over $98 million?
Wachovia also said a closing would entitle its 11 executive officers, who include Steel, as well as Chairman Lanty Smith to $2.5 million in equity-based awards under existing stock incentive plans. But the executives' stock options are ...

Capital IQ Power Moves » Wachovia Corporation Appoints Lanty Smith ...
Wachovia announced that current Chairman Lanty Smith has been appointed interim chief executive officer, succeeding Ken Thompson, who is retiring at the request of the board. Ben Jenkins, currently vice chairman and president of the ...

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Wachovia's interim CEO, Lanty Smith, went cheer leading employees to cut costs while the bank canned its “Pick-A-Pay” loans program. In doing so , Wachovia finally admitted what we all knew: the deal for Golden West was a bad one. ...

lanty smith - interim wachovia ceo
lanty smith said that the search for a new chief executive officer is on and that the company didn't need to raise cash. he said that wachovia was “absolutely not” in crisis and that it needed new leadership to revitalize their core ...

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Interim CEO Lanty Smith, who led the search, will keep his chairman title. All business and staff units will report to Steel, who brings strong NC ties, Washington experience and a Wall Street pedigree to the post. ...

How will we respond to this body blow?
Former CEO Ken Thompson, chairman Lanty Smith and a risk-taking board shelled out more than $25 billion for Golden West Financial and its toxic mortgages two years ago at the height of the real estate bubble. The poison has been running ...

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charlotte, nc -- wachovia announced today that its current chairman, lanty smith, has been appointed interim chief executive officer, succeeding ken thompson, who is retiring at the request of the board. ben jenkins, currently vice ...

Confusing Signals
Chairman Lanty Smith and Washington Mutual Inc. director Michael Murphy accounted for a third of purchases after industry profits reached an all-time high. The S&P 500 rose 6.2 percent from the end of the month until the start of the ...

Wells CEO rallies workers in the Wachovia atrium
Board chairman Lanty Smith was at Steel's side that day but wasn't on stage Wednesday. Wednesday, Steel said that Wachovia employees should be able to get back to business after a stressful and uncertain several weeks, ...