William D. Cohan

Bill, a former senior Wall Street M&A investment banker for 17 years at Lazard Frères & Co., Merrill Lynch and JPMorganChase, is the New York Times bestselling author of three non-fiction narratives about Wall Street. A former longtime special correspondent at Vanity Fair, he is a founding partner of Puck, a daily digital news and opinion publication.

He is a former columnist for the DealBook section of the New York Times. He also writes for The Financial Times, The New York Times, Air Mail, Barron’s, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, Town & Country, The Nation, Fortune, The Hollywood Reporter, and Politico, among other publications. He is a graduate of Phillips Academy, Duke University, Columbia University School of Journalism and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.