. >> robert ben benmosche was born in brooklyn in 1944. early in his childhood his father moved his family to the catskill mountains, but shortly afterwards, his father died of a heart attack, leaving his mother and three other siblings a quarter of a million dollars in debt and with a half completed hotel. from there, money, having enough of it, became a driving force in benmosche's life. soon after graduating from alfred university, he rose up the ranks at some of wall street's biggest firms, chase manhattan and metlife, where he became ceo. it was in 2009, three years after he retired from metlife, that he took on his biggest job yet -- turning around the ship at aig. it was in croatia that benmosche accepted the job that would turn him into a key player in the financial crisis, and, at times, one of its most hated characters. during a boat ride along the adriatic coast, benmosche, now retired, explained how he fell in love with the country years ago when visiting with a colleague. >> we came here in 1987 with about 250 people and 125 p