OTHER SPONSORS OF STEERE GALA:
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Other bankers on the board of
the ALDF
Vice Chairman of the American Lyme
disease Foundation:
Anthony J. Walton
Mr. Walton is a partner at McFarland
Dewey & Company, LLC, a private
investment banking firm. Previously, he
was President of Armstrong Holdings
Corp., a private investment company and
corporate finance advisory firm, in this
capacity, he was a co-founder of
Effinity Financial Corp., a successful Internet Bank for affinity groups and EC
Trade Services. In 1998, he was recruited as CEO of Caspian Securities Group and
in 1994 and 1995, he served as CEO of the Llama Company, a private regional
investment bank owned by members of the Wal-Mart Walton family.
From 1983 to 1993, Mr. Walton served as Chief General Manager, Americas and
Europe, of Westpac Banking Corporation, then Australia's largest banking group.
In 1991, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Westpac. Mr. Walton
joined the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York in 1966 and undertook a series of
London and New York-based assignments. A highlight of Mr. Walton's 16-year Chase
career included forming Libra Bank Ltd., an eight-member consortium bank for
Latin America.
In New York as Senior Vice President and CEO of the Global Trade Finance
Group, he established Chase as the premier trade bank worldwide with over 300
staff and offices in 33 countries. Mr. Walton was born in London, England and
received his B.A. from Haverford College and his M.B.A. in International Finance
from the Wharton Graduate School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is a director of a number of private companies; a Member of the Council on
Foreign Relations; a Director of the American Australian Association; and a
former Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of International
Bankers.
