Winthrop H Smith Jr

Winthrop H. Smith Jr.’s father died when he was 11, but his legacy guided the son’s life. Mr. Smith’s father worked behind the scenes with Charlie Merrill to help build Merrill Lynch into a brokerage firm that looked to focus on Main Street. After 28 years rising through the ranks, Mr. Smith said, his principles prompted him to give up a plum job as a vice chairman when E. Stanley O’Neal was appointed chief executive. Today Mr. Smith owns the Sugarbush Ski Resort in Vermont, to which he tries to apply similar principles