Interview: Richard Wood

Frank Zappa was not the only visitor to Prague after the heady days of the Velvet Revolution. Richard Wood, a derivatives salesman with Salomon Brothers in his early thirties, gave up his London job and drifted to the beautiful city straddling the River Vltava. Wood & Co is now the most successful brokerage in central Europe, and a powerful force for injecting investor relations-type thinking into local managements whose buccaneering habits have left many foreign and local investors breathless.