The suit also cites an e-mail from a Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) employee to then-Merrill boss and compensation committee member David Komansky .

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Thain, a dispassionate, numbers-driven executive lacking the back-slapping charisma of a Richard Grasso or a David Komansky, transformed the Big Board from its clubby ways to a global, electronically driven exchange group.

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Stanley O'Neal, whose career started on a car assembly line and whose grandfather was born a slave, was named president and putative successor to David Komansky, the investment bank's long-serving chairman and chief executive.

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