Twitter’s chief dealmaker, Jessica Verrilli, is leaving (TWTR)

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Twitter’s VP of corporate development and strategy, Jessica Verrilli, has left. She worked at Twitter for over 8 years. Twitter’s head of mergers and acquisitions, Jessica Verrilli, has left the company. In a series of tweets on Friday, Verrilli said she had resigned and intended to be more active in Hello Angels, […]

Trump’s a terrible deal-maker — just look at the past 100 days

Reuters Donald Trump campaigned as a dealmaker. The entire premise of his candidacy was that he’d glower across a conference room table and, using his business guy skillz, defeat the enemies of American greatness to win the sweet end of the lollipop for his voters. He seemed to define good governance as little more than […]

Trump sees Gary Cohn as a ‘dealmaker’ — and it’s behind his sudden rise

Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Gary Cohn, the National Economic Council director and former president of Goldman Sachs, has earned President Donald Trump’s respect as a dealmaker, according to a Washington Post report published on Thursday.  While Cohn, who reportedly describes himself as neither a Republican, nor a Democrat, isn’t popular among Trump’s conservative base — last week, Rush Limbaugh […]

A top Goldman Sachs dealmaker says she learned a major career lesson eating in a cafeteria in Milan

LinkedIn It’s no secret that women are often treated differently in the workplace. And that is especially the case in more male-dominated fields such as financial services.  It’s for that reason that Clare Scherrer, a partner at Goldman Sachs, advises young women to get in front of clients as soon as possible. The idea: To get past […]

A top Goldman Sachs dealmaker says she learned a major career lesson eating in a cafeteria in Milan

LinkedIn It’s no secret that women are often treated differently in the workplace. And that is especially the case in more male-dominated fields such as financial services.  It’s for that reason that Clare Scherrer, a partner at Goldman Sachs, advises young women to get in front of clients as soon as possible. The idea: To get past […]

Trump’s reputation as a dealmaker is on the line with the GOP’s troubled Obamacare replacement bill

REUTERS/Joshua Roberts The widespread opposition to the Republican Party’s American Health Care Act appeared to reach a tipping point on Thursday, with a delayed vote and policy huddles that stretched into the night on Capitol Hill. President Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s efforts achieve a consensus on an alternative to the Affordable Care Act has […]