Remembering 9/11: The Day I’ll Never Forget
The president of Risk Waters shares personal recollections from the scene of the World Trade Center tragedy last September and remembers a few of our lost friends.
Peter Field, the chairman and chief executive of Risk Waters Group, was scheduled to be at the Waters Congress in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He recounts the events of that day and remembers the Risk Waters staff and conference participants who were so senselessly killed.
I was up at about 6:30 am to check my e-mail and phone the London office, intending to leave for the inaugural Waters Financial Technology Congress at the World Trade Center no later than 8 am. But I had
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