 Eugene A. Ludwig
Chairman
Eugene A. Ludwig is Chairman of the Board of Promontory Asset Finance
Company, and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Promontory Financial Group, a
financial services organization that invests in, advises and creates
financial products for financial services organizations.
Mr. Ludwig was previously Vice Chairman and Senior Control Officer
of Bankers Trust Corporation and later Deutsche Bank with
responsibility for a range of senior administrative and control
issues central to implementing the firms' global strategy in
securities underwriting, lending and related businesses. Prior to
Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, he served as the Comptroller of the
Currency of the United States, leaving office in 1998, at the end of
his five-year term. As Comptroller, Mr. Ludwig headed the Office of
the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the federal agency
responsible for supervising federally chartered commercial banks and
federal branches and agencies of foreign banks. He also was Chairman
of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, Chairman
of the Neighborhood Housing Services, Chairman of the interagency
Federal Consumer Electronic Payments Task Force, a Director of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a member of the President's
Working Group on Financial Markets, and a member of the Basel
Committee on Banking Supervision.
Prior to becoming Comptroller in 1993, Mr. Ludwig was a partner in
the law firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, specializing in
banking and international trade. He graduated magna cum laude from
Haverford College and received a scholarship to Oxford University,
where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters of Arts
degree as a Keasbey Fellow. He holds a L.L.B. from Yale University
where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal and chairman of Yale
Legislative Services.
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