Management books and your mum would caution that when you leave a job, never burn your bridges. You may want to return to your old path. Chris Laskowski's latest move is a textbook case of how good that advice is.
In 2008, during the height of the nervousness about global markets and at a time when sponsorship activity was playing possum, Laskowski left the financial sponsors group he set up for Citi in Asia and returned with the bank to Chicago to work as a managing director covering Midwest banks and looking after financial sponsorsprivate equity deals for the Midwest area. He'd been in Asia since 1999, covering both financial sponsors and financial...