Wednesday, October 17, 2007

A Short Life

In the heady rush towards deal launches and closings these days (read: late night calls with bankers who do not appear to have a life), here's something said a little differently about one of my colleagues, who died this week of brain cancer at age 38.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/young-wall-street-star-defied/story.aspx?guid=%7B54CD8A9F-EBFF-4664-88DB-C7717C651B87%7D

Life is but a vapor no matter how bright the shining star.

'There are no irreplaceable bankers. But Shane was irreplaceable as a person.'
— Robert Kindler, Morgan Stanley