David Brenneman, Morgan Stanley Equity Risk Manager, Dies at 37

David Brenneman, a Harvard-trained lawyer who crossed into finance and was an executive director in equity risk management at Morgan Stanley, has died. He was 37.

He died on Aug. 31 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan following a 16-month battle with leiomyosarcoma, or LMS, a rare cancer of the soft tissue, according to his wife, Mina Brenneman. A father of three, he was a resident of Chappaqua, New York, and stopped working only in mid-July when he had his final surgery, his wife said.