Active Members
Tom Mulligan '73, MBA '77
Tom Mulligan '73, MBA '77, joined Chase Manhattan Bank's Western Hemisphere Group after graduation and worked in New York City as a corporate banker to traders for Chase and its successor banks throughout his entire career. He financed gold arbitrage during the 1980 market spike. Next, he financed tropical commodity traders. He moved to Chase's Wall Street division in 1985 and has been there ever since. His clients have included EF Hutton, Drexel Burnham, Salomon Brothers, Long Term Capital, Goldman Sachs and NASDAQ.
As an active member of the Johnson Club of New York since the 1980s - well before the Cornell Club of New York existed - Mulligan has played a key role in countless alumni events, lining up speakers and getting postcards out to members. The reception at which Dick Schapp spoke of his years covering sports for ABC was the highlight of his years as a club officer. "We had over 40 people signed up and the evening turned out to be an Ithaca blizzard in New York City, with snow, sleet, and freezing rain," he recalled. "We had to call everyone and beg them to come. About 20 people showed up."
Mulligan has represented the Johnson School as a member of several Cornell alumni groups, including the Cornell Alumni Federation (as head of the ways and means committee) and the Cornell Alumni Trustee Council (as a member of the nominating committee). Mulligan has served on the Johnson School Advisory Council's nominating committee since 2005. He earned his undergraduate degree at Cornell from the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences and says he'll never forget running in his first marathon, the 1977 National Capital Marathon in Ottawa, with Professor Dyckman and Peter Dukes.
