Garry W. Lozier
Sandler O'Neill & Partners
Tuesday, September 11, 2001 was ten-year-old Evan Lozier's first day of school at his new school in Connecticut. He was the oldest child and only son of Kathleen Lozier and Garry W. Lozier, the latter of whom was a Managing Director at Sandler O'Neill & Partners. His office was on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower.
Garry Lozier was a Jersey boy, born in Hackensack, and educated in Englewood, before he traveled across the Delaware River to earn his college degree at Lehigh University. His professional career took him from New Jersey across the Hudson River to lower Manhattan and the world of high finance, figuratively and literally.
On February 26, 1993, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center the first time, Garry Lozier was at work. He emerged from the incident unscathed and with a renewed zeal for life. In addition to being a wizard of Wall Street he was a loving husband and devoted dad, cheering on Evan in every sport he played and making it home every night to bathe his two little girls Karoline (7) and Olivia (4) and then read them bedtime stories.
As sons often do, Evan Lozier has walked in the footsteps of his dad. He too graduated from Lehigh University. He too went to work in the world of finance, working at Piper Sandler, which was born out of Sandler O'Neill's purchase in 2019 by Piper Jaffray.
And he carries in his pocket a silver dollar that his father used to carry in his.
-AK
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