the chairman and CEO of Security Pacific Corporation in Los Angeles, recruited Jerry Grundhofer to head the company's retail-banking business. Over the next three years Grundhofer increased the business's net income from $125 million to $425 million
Jerry A. Grundhofer was born in 1945.
Jerry Grundhofer was born in 1945.
Jerry A. Grundhofer was born in Glendale, California in the United States.
Grundhofer, his older brother Jack, and a sister were raised in a modest home in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale. Grundhofer's father, a bartender, and mother, who worked as a caterer and maid, struggled to put their sons through Jesuit schools.
acquiring U.S. Bancorp--run by Jack Grundhofer--for $86 billion. Investors worried that Grundhofer was moving too fast, particularly in light of other recent--and sometimes disastrous--large bank mergers, but USB was attractive and affordable
Eduard Franz Grundhofer has written: 'An investigation of certain methods for testing heat insulators' -- subject(s): Bibliography, Building materials, Heat, Insulation (Heat), Testing, Transmission
In April 1992 BankAmerica Corporation announced that it would acquire Security Pacific. Grundhofer stayed on until May of 1993, when he was named president, CEO, and board chairman of Star Banc Corporation of Cincinnati.
Union Bank, 1967-1981, various positions; Alliance Bank, 1981-1983, president; Wells Fargo Bank, 1983-1985, senior vice president; 1985-1987, executive vice president; Security Pacific National Bank, 1987-1990, vice chairman
Jerry Grundhofer became president and CEO of the country's eighth-largest commercial bank, while Jack was chairman of the combined board of directors. The brothers saw the two companies as a perfect match
$10 billion for Mercantile Bancorp of St. Louis, a regional holding company with $33 billion in assets. Grundhofer admitted that he would have liked to have moved more slowly but, as with his later acquisitions, believed that he couldn't afford to wait
Firstar Corporation of Milwaukee in late 1998. With assets of $15 billion Star Banc paid $7.5 billion in stock for Firstar and its $23 billion in assets. Grundhofer took the Firstar name and moved his company's headquarters to Milwaukee
president, CEO, and chairman of U.S. Bancorp (USB), the nation's eighth-largest bank-holding company. Over his career Grundhofer turned around several faltering banks by adhering to his basic business principles