HWS News
14 October 2024 President's Forum Series: Ed Hajim By Andrew Wickenden '09
Author and seasoned Wall Street executive Ed Hajim joins the President’s Forum Series for a conversation about passion, principles, partners and plans.
On Tuesday, Oct. 22, the President’s Forum Series welcomes Ed Hajim, author and longtime Wall Street leader.
Hajim will join the HWS community for a conversation about his life, career and most recent book, The Island of the Four Ps: A Modern Fable About Preparing for Your Future. Hosted by Sigma Phi fraternity with support from former Trustee James F. Anderton IV ’65, the conversation will be held in Froelich Hall in the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. Jack Meagher ’26, a Management and Entrepreneurship major and member of Sigma Phi, will moderate the conversation.
The son of a Syrian immigrant, Hajim is a seasoned Wall Street executive with more than 50 years of investment experience. He held senior management positions with the Capital Group, E.F. Hutton and Lehman Brothers before becoming chairman and CEO of Furman Selz. Hajim has been the co-chairman of ING Barings, Americas Region; chairman and CEO of ING Aeltus Group and ING Furman Selz Asset Management; and chairman and CEO of MLH Capital. He now serves as chairman of High Vista, a Boston-based money management company.
Hajim is the author of two books, On the Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom and The Island of the Four Ps: A Modern Fable About Preparing for Your Future. In the former, Hajim recounts his improbable life story from the age of three, when he was kidnapped by his father, to his childhood in foster homes and orphanages, to living the American dream as an accomplished Wall Street executive and family man. In The Island of the Four Ps, Hajim offers a modern fable inspired by his youth alongside the hard-won life lessons that have served him since.
Hajim, who holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University, earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester, where he later chaired the Board of Trustees for 12 years. He made the largest single gift to the University of Rochester in its history – $30 million – to found the Hajim College of Engineering.
Established in 2000 by President Mark D. Gearan, the President’s Forum brings a variety of speakers to campus to share their knowledge and ideas with students, faculty and staff, as well as with interested community members.
