Jeanne Eslinger Branthover

Jeanne Eslinger Branthover, a financial-industry recruiter in New York, spent years persuading top financiers to accept multimillion-dollar job offers. When the market crashed, she also became an unofficial cheerleader and therapist to Wall Street's newly unemployed.

Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / May 6, 2009

Jeanne Eslinger Branthover, a financial-industry recruiter in New York, spent years persuading top financiers to accept multimillion-dollar job offers. When the market crashed, she also became an unofficial cheerleader and therapist to Wall Street's newly unemployed.

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