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Barbara Byrne
Barbara Byrne is a Vice Chairman of Lehman Brothers, a leading provider of global financial services. She is the first woman to achieve this Senior Executive position at Lehman Brothers in the 157 year history of the firm. Ms. Byrne, a 27 year veteran of Lehman Brothers Investment Banking Division, is credited for her role in developing longstanding partnerships with major corporate clients on behalf of Lehman Brothers.
Based in New York, she is chairman of the Firm’s Senior Client Council and is responsible for leading Lehman Brothers’ relationships with a diverse group of corporate clients, including GE, IBM, Altria, EMC, HP, US Steel, Microsoft, Cisco and Williams, amongst others. She has held senior management positions in the Energy and Technology Investment Banking Groups. In addition to her roles in these industry groups, Ms. Byrne served as the senior member of Lehman’s Equity Restructuring Group, focusing on the development of strategic equity restructuring techniques to meet client needs. Over the course of her career, Ms. Byrne has led Lehman Brothers’ teams on diverse financing and strategic advisory transactions as wide ranging as representing Digital Equipment in its 1998 merger with Compaq, to advising the Williams Companies on its 2002-2005 liquidity restructuring. In 2007, she lead the teams advising Altria on the $62 billion spin-off of Kraft, as well as the pending spin-off of Phillip Morris International, the $1.1 billion initial public offering of VMWare’s carve out from EMC, and represented GE on the $11.6 million sale of its plastics business to SABIC.
Ms. Byrne participates in industry conferences as a forum leader on strategic issues as well as trends. She is a frequent speaker on behalf of women in business, finance and leadership. In addition, she has provided commentary on strategic financial restructurings for news organizations such as Fortune, Forbes, Money Line and CNBC.
Ms. Byrne graduated from Mount Holyoke College magna cum laude in 1976 and serves on its board of trustees. She resides in Princeton, New Jersey with her husband, Tom Byrne, and their four children.
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