Hugh Sullivan
Vice Chairman, Global Head of Multi-Industries Investment Banking & Member of Executive Client Coverage Group Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

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Hugh Sullivan is a vice chairman, global head of Multi-Industries Investment Banking, and member of Merrill Lynch’s Executive Client Coverage Group.

Since joining Merrill Lynch in 1997, Mr. Sullivan has provided senior banking coverage to a number of the firm’s largest clients and has held a variety of leadership positions. He has led the firm’s Americas Origination group (investment banking, debt and equity capital markets), Multi-Industry Group (investment banking for the aerospace and defense, automotive, building and building products, chemicals, diversified industrial, metals and mining, paper and packaging sectors), Technology Group, and, most recently, Global Principal Investment Origination.

Mr. Sullivan’s clients include global companies in the automotive, consumer, financial, industrial, and technology sectors. He has been involved in a wide variety of financing, merger and acquisition, and takeover defense assignments. In recent years, he has led more than $100 billion of M&A, debt, equity, and equity-linked financings for clients that include Electronic Data Systems, General Electric Company, General Motors Corporation, Masco Corp., Ingersoll-Rand, Textron Financial Corporation, and others.

Mr. Sullivan began his investment banking career in The First Boston Corporation’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group. He subsequently led the buyout of Kalfact Plastics Company, a plastic injection molder serving the automotive, appliance, and office furniture industries. Mr. Sullivan was an owner and president of Kalfact Plastics Company until he joined Merrill Lynch in 1997. He has served as a director of Briggs Industries, Inc., Blodgett Oven Company, and Interstate Brands Corporation. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Robert Toigo Foundation and the Board of Advisors of the Yale School of Management.

Mr. Sullivan received his MPPM from the Yale School of Management and his BSE in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan.