# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-alexander-thain
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:17:13.920Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-alexander-thain"
name: "John Alexander Thain"
slug: "john-alexander-thain"
description: "John Alexander Thain is an American financial executive and investment banker. He was president and co-COO of Goldman Sachs, and then CEO of the New York Stock Exchange. Thain then became the last chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch & Co. before its merger with Bank of America. He was designated to become president of global banking, securities, and wealth management at the newly combined company, but resigned on January 22, 2009. Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America, reportedly forced Thain to step down after several controversies, such as the losses at Merrill Lynch which proved to be far larger than previously estimated, and the award of huge executive bonuses. Thain then was chairman and CEO of the CIT Group. He has been a board member of Uber since 2017."
tagline: "American banker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Thain_briefing.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1955-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.770526666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thain"
    title: "John Thain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جون اليكساندر ثاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thain"
    title: "John Thain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thain"
    title: "John Thain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "جان تاین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thain"
    title: "John Thain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1701913"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump