(FOX BUSINESS) – It is a mere coincidence that Tom Michaud wasn’t in the World Trade Center on the Tuesday morning that changed the course of world history.
Michaud, now the CEO and president of investing firm Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc., credits two reasons for his absence on Sept. 11, 2001: a Michael Jackson concert the night before that prompted him to ask his backup to run the daily 7:30 a.m. meeting, and a surprise interruption by his 4-year-old son that morning as he was getting ready.
He just barely missed his train from Connecticut into Manhattan; when he did arrive, emerging from the Fulton Street subway stop across the street from the World Trade Center, he saw the first American Airlines jet crash into the north tower.
