The country’s biggest bank needs a CEO, and given how well things have gone for Bank of America in recent years, some people think that some fresh blood is in order. The fresh blood, by contrast, seems to disagree.
The latest to withdraw his name from consideration for the worst job on Wall Street is Robert Kelly, who currently leads Bank of New York Mellon. Approached about moving back to his old Charlotte haunts to take the reins of old BofA, ex-Wachovia chief Bobby apparently couldn’t wait to tell the approachers to go find another sucker.

Mr. Kelly has shown no interest in the job, said a person familiar with his thinking.


Welcome to the bandwagon, Kelly. You don’t have what it takes to fill Ken Lewis’ shoes. Your stupid firm wasted no time in returning its government bailout dollars. Ken Lewis is still swimming in BofA’s $45 billion TARP pool.
Who’s diving into the deep end when the big guy calls it quits at the end of the year?
BNY Mellon CEO Kelly Tells BofA: No, Thanks [WSJ]

Comments (31)

  1. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 10:39 AM
  2. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM

    Shazar?
    I barely knew him.
    Dennis Furry Lover Kneale

  3. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 10:45 AM

    A massive balance sheet that needs to be reorganized, TARP capital limiting your pay, mortgaging servicing operations visable from space, and a completely fractured internal culture between BofA and Legacy ML folks.
    Where do I sign up?
    -Dick Fuld

  4. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 10:48 AM

    “Approached about moving back to his old Charlotte haunts to take the reins of old BofA”
    What does this mean?

  5. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 10:49 AM

    @4 you know exactly what it means, but you’re a douche with no life so you leave comments like that.

  6. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM

    No Greg? Shazam!

  7. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 10:52 AM

    Bess, have you posted this to the Dealbreaker career center? Couldn’t hurt. After all one of the fringe benefits of the postition is to get a sharp stick up the ass every so often from none other.

  8. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 10:54 AM

    SHAZANUS!

  9. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 10:56 AM

    @5
    Calm down, Shazar. It’s your first day.

  10. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 10:57 AM

    I’m up for it, with a great track record.
    – Fred Goodwin

  11. Posted by Jon Shazar | November 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM

    @9 – I’ll calm down once I’m done fucking your mother. Beeeeatch.

  12. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM

    Just keep checking the Write-Offs:
    DB Careers: Bank of America needs a new CEO– you.

  13. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM

    I miss Greg, and am serious about that

  14. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM

    I didn’t understand why I could comprehend the writing and it wasn’t by Bess, so I changed into my Pope Halloween outfit and am now sitting back at my desk.
    -RBS Jr. Rainmaker

  15. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:11 AM

    shazar is KILLIN IT!
    callin out bny as ‘stupid’… ownage!
    RIP GREG, SHAZAM IS IN THE HIZZLE AND TEARIN IT UP!!!!

  16. Posted by wcburrs87 | November 2, 2009 at 11:16 AM

    Greg just changed his pen name so he could start fresh. I was wondering why he didn’t do this sooner.

  17. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:17 AM

    Who the fuck is this Shazar dude? Nobody references “the big guy,” unless they’re making note of something I did. It’s called etiquette.
    -Steve “No Flexin’, Just Fleecin’” Cohen

  18. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:18 AM

    There’s a shitheel out there somewhere that’s willing to take over from that shitheel Ken Lewis.

  19. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:19 AM

    Greg just changed his name to Shazar. He has always wanted to be called Shazar.
    Ms. Michaels

  20. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM

    Ken Lewis is a Shazarheel

  21. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM

    Shit. Now I’m beginning to feel bad about Greg. Kinda like the time when I was 12 and Artie Valenti and I were throwing rocks at this kid Sheldon who lived down the street. We thought he was a pussy mama’s boy and we didn’t like him. So throwing rocks from my mom’s rock garden seemed like a good way to show our disaproval. Sheldon started running from the incomming fire, and he had gotten almost to his front door when I beaned him on the forehead from about 30 yards. He fell like a tree. He got up crying like a baby and bleeding like Dusty Rhodes in a Texas cage match. Needless to say Artie and I ran to my house with little concern as to Sheldon’s bloody condition. He had a good idea that it was Artie and me chuckin’ rocks, and ikely wouldn’t have said anything on account of the fact Artie used to let us watch his older sister Leslie take showers from a peephole in his bathroom door.

  22. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:25 AM

    Jesus Fucking Christ. We lose that douche Greg, and we get a no talent moron named Jon? You have to be kidding me.
    Love,
    Mom

  23. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:35 AM

    Jon, I just hired your mom for the
    SAC Christmas party. Looking forward to it.
    S. Cohen
    http://www.shazardance.com/

  24. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM

    I am watching Pretty Woman. And I admit Julia gives me a boner.
    Greg

  25. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:50 AM

    my vote for next BofA CEO: Mancision!

  26. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM

    John Thain!

  27. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 12:13 PM

    Whats a Dick Fold?

  28. Posted by american bandersnatch | November 2, 2009 at 1:36 PM

    Bob Nardelli – He’s an up and comer formerly with GE. By the way, have you seen how well my pets.com stock is doing?

  29. Posted by Anal_yst | November 2, 2009 at 6:44 PM

    crabhands

  30. Posted by guest | November 2, 2009 at 9:25 PM

    “Mumbles” Moynihan

  31. Posted by Snoop Dogg | November 3, 2009 at 4:37 AM

    Fuck it, I’ll do it.

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