Duff & Phelps Corporation is a publicly traded financial advisory and investment banking firm, providing services principally in the areas of valuation, transactions, financial restructuring, dispute and taxation. The company operates in three segments: Financial Advisory, which provides valuation advisory, tax services, and legal management consulting; Alternative Asset Advisory, which provides portfolio valuation, operational due diligence, and complex asset solutions; and Investment Banking, which provides mergers and acquisitions advisory services, transaction opinions, and restructuring advisory services.

Duff & Phelps serves a number of industry-specific clients across the globe. Clients include: financial institutions, professional service firms, media and entertainment companies, aerospace companies, energy companies, real estate companies, utilities companies, pharmaceutical companies, health care companies and consumer product companies.

The company, which was founded in 1932, is based in New York City and has offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Frank J. Haggerty (c. 1876 – September 19, 1962) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at University of Akron, known as Buchtel College until 1913, for five seasons from 1910 to 1914, compiling a record of 22–16–3. Haggerty also coached the men's basketball team at Akron those five academic years, 1910–1915, tallying a mark of 30–23. He was also the head baseball coach at St. Vincent's College, now Loyola Marymount University, from 1906 to 1907, at Buchtel/Akron from 1910 to 1913 and again in 1915, and at DePaul University in 1923, amassing a career college baseball record of 33–23. Haggerty was a graduate of Colby College. He died from cancer at the age of 86 on September 19, 1962 at his home in Chicago, Illinois.

David J. Sargent (born 1931) was the President of Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts from 1989 to 2010.

Sargent is a native of Newport, New Hampshire and graduated from the Suffolk University Law School magna cum laude in 1954, ranked number one and president of his class. He was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts and New Hampshire that same year.

He returned as an adjunct professor in 1956 and soon became a full professor. From 1972 to 1989, Sargent directed the Law School as dean. Sargent assumed the university presidency in 1989. The Sargent building (1999) which houses Suffolk University Law School is named after him.

In its November 17, 2008 compensation survey, The Chronicle of Higher Education listed Sargent as the highest paid college or university president in the United States. They mistakenly claimed that Sargent's compensation in 2006-2007 totaled $2.8 million, however, this was a one time check made to his retirement account. Sargent's compensation is roughly on par with most other college presidents, about $400,000 per year.

Craig Whyte (born 23 May 1971 in Motherwell) is a Scottish businessman..

Whyte first entered business in a plant hire company; since then he has branched out into security, manufacturing and property, before becoming a venture capitalist. He bought the controlling interest in Rangers from David Murray in May 2011, but the club entered administration in February 2012.

When he was 15, Whyte took an interest in financial markets, and made more than £20,000 buying and selling shares before he left school. His first job was with his father's plant hire firm, and in 1990 he set-up his own plant-hire company. The company, Whyte Hire, was not a success and went bankrupt in the early 1990s with debts of around £300,000. Whyte recovered from this loss and branched out into security, manufacturing and property. In 1997, aged 26, he was Scotland's youngest self-made millionaire. After selling off most of his businesses, he moved to Monaco. When he moved back to the UK (to London), he became a venture capitalist. The London-based group he heads, Liberty Capital, specialises in buying distressed businesses, turning them around, and selling them on. He is chairman of a complex maze of interlinked firms from around the world thought to be worth more than £1 billion.