William D. Cohan Biography
William David Cohan is an American business writer. Cohan was an investigative reporter for the Raleigh Times. He then worked on Wall Street for seventeen years as a mergers and acquisitions banker.
William D. Cohan Age
He was born on 20th February, 1960, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S
William D. Cohan Height
He stand at a height of 5 feet and 6 inches tall.
William D. Cohan Education
Cohan is a graduate of Duke University, Columbia University School of Journalism, and Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
William D. Cohan Nationality
He is an American nationality.
William D. Cohan Ethnicity
He is of White ethnicity.
William D. Cohan Parents
Cohan was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. His father was an accountant and his mother worked in administration
William D. Cohan Siblings
He has a sibling Peter Cohan.
William D. Cohan Wife
He married Deborah Gail Futter in a Jewish ceremony in 1991.
William D. Cohan Children
William and his wife Gail Futter have two sons together.
William D. Cohan American business writer
William D. Cohan, a former senior Wall Street M&A investment banker for 17 years at Lazard Frères & Co., Merrill Lynch and JPMorganChase, is the New York Times bestselling author of three non-fiction narratives about Wall Street: Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World; House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street; and, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co., the winner of the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
His book, The Price of Silence, about the Duke lacrosse scandal was published in April 2014 and was also a New York Times bestseller. His book, Why Wall Street Matters, was published by Random House in February 2017. His book, Four Friends, about what happened to four of his friends of from Andover, his high school, was published by Flatiron Press, a division of Macmillan Publishers, in July 2019.
His new book Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon, about the rise and fall of GE, once the world’s most powerful, valuable and important company, will be published in November 2022 by PenguinRandomHouse.
He is a founding partner of Puck, a digital publication owned and operated by journalists, and a writer-at-large for Air Mail. For 13 years, he was a special correspondent at Vanity Fair. He also writes, or has written, for ProPublica, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Institutional Investor, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, Fast Company, The Nation, Fortune, Politico, ArtNews, and Barron’s.
He previously wrote a bi-weekly opinion column for The New York Times, an opinion column for BloombergView, as well as for the Dealbook section of the New York Times. He is a non-staff, on-air contributor to CNBC and also appears on CNN, on MSNBC and the BBC-TV. He has also appeared three times as a guest on the Daily Show, with Jon Stewart, The NewsHour, The Charlie Rose Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, and CBS This Morning as well as on numerous NPR, BBC and Bloomberg radio programs. He was formerly a contributing editor for Bloomberg TV.
William D. Cohan Salary
He earns an estimated annual salary of USD 100,000.
William D. Cohan Net Worth
His net worth is estimated to be USD 1 million.
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