Jefferies CFO Broadbent Dies from Coronavirus Complications, Age 56
Posted on 03/29/2020
On March 29, 2020, Peregrine (Peg) C. Broadbent, the Chief Financial Officer of Jefferies Group LLC, died at the age of 56, after complications from the Wuhan coronavirus. Other details of Broadbent’s death were not immediately available.
“We are heartbroken and grieve that our friend and colleague, Peg Broadbent, has passed away from coronavirus complications,” Jefferies Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Rich Handler and President Rich Friedman said in a joint statement.
“Part of what made Peg the great partner he was to all of us was his core humanity,” the executives said in the statement. “No matter what the occasion, his decency, calmness and dry wit were always there, always making things better. We will miss him terribly.”
Peg Broadbent joined Jefferies in 2007 from Morgan Stanley and helped double the size of the firm. Teri Gendron has been appointed interim CFO and Chief Accounting Officer of Jefferies Group.