Boris Federov, an investor and a former minister of finance, criticized the company's leadership, which reacted so fiercely he began to fear for his life, according to an account by MarshallGoldman, an economist and Russia scholar at Harvard.
The NYSE's chairman, Marshall Carter , and its chief executive, John Thain , told members that the arrangement with Goldman (where Thain used to work, incidentally) was carefully vetted by former Chairman John Reed , who signed the engagement letter with the investment bank.