Gregory J. Fleming has been the president of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, including Merchant Banking, since February 2010. He is responsible for Global Research and is a member of the Operating Committee.

Gregory was president and COO of Merrill Lynch from June 2007 to 2009. From 2003 to 2007, he was executive vice president and co-president of Merrill’s Global Markets and Investment Banking Group.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a director of Colgate University and a member of the board of advisors for the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. He is a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate in economics from Colgate and received his JD from Yale Law School.

Gregory is a fourth-generation Irish American with roots in Co. Longford on his mother’s side. He and his wife Melissa have three children, Andrea, Charlotte and Rory.