Education
Disque was a 1939 graduate of Stuyvesant High School and attended Duke University.
Disque was a 1939 graduate of Stuyvesant High School and attended Duke University.
Deane was at one time a partner at Lazard, the investment bank, where he revolutionized corporate finance by pioneering sale-leaseback transactions. Other positions held by Disque Deane included Chairman of The Deane Group, private merchant bankers, and Bolfarm South.R.L, a large Bolivian industrial agricultural company. Deane held senior positions and directorships at Eastman Dillon Union Securities, Radio Corporation of America Corporation, and Sun Chemical.
Deane was the Chairman of the Deane Laboratory at Duke University.
He was the founder of, and a general partner in Starrett City Associates, which owns Starrett City in Brooklyn. Deane was a founder of Corporate Property Investors which was sold to the Simon Property Group and which sold the General Motors Building to Donald Trump and Conseco Insurance for $878 million in 1998.