Ted Pick Is a Math Whiz Among Math Whizzes. He’s the New Morgan Stanley CEO

A group of Morgan Stanley executives attending a post-workday dinner in London were ready to call it a night. Ted Pick wanted to play a game.

The veteran banker, who had organized the outing, challenged his colleagues to beat him at math equations. They began throwing out six-figure numbers to be multiplied by other large numbers. Pick nailed every equation before anyone else could. He even beat one executive who was using a calculator.