Mack, Brin Skipping Davos

No-Shows

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 4:24PM EDT / Published Jan. 26, 2009 5:20PM EST

We already knew Bono, Angelina, Larry Summers, Lloyd Blankfein, and even David Paterson weren’t going to Davos. But now comes word that Google’s Sergey Brin and Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack will skip the World Economic Forum’s annual event. Add to the list of no-shows Ken Griffin of Citadel Investments, whose fund lost 47 percent in 2008, and a co-chairman last year, Chevron CEO David O’Reilly. Things have gotten so bad at the Swiss resort, Condé Nast Portfolio reports, that the biggest story emerging from Davos is who’s not showing up.

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Mack, Brin Skipping Davos