Though it dominates the brokering of U.S. government bonds, Cantor is no Merrill Lynch or Morgan Stanley , Dean Witter Discover or Goldman, Sachs.

FORBES: Briefing Book: Howard Lutnick

Robert Kidder , Miles Marsh and Michael Miles --are holdovers from the board of Dean Witter Discover, where Purcell was chief executive when he engineered the purchase of Morgan Stanley in 1997.

FORBES: Morgan Stanley's Poison Pen Pals

He was president of Morgan Stanley in 1997 when the firm merged with Mr Purcell's Dean Witter Discover: the combination both cost him his job and created the problems he has been brought back to solve.

ECONOMIST: Morgan Stanley