- Kenneth Chenault
Kenneth Irvine Chenault (born Long Island, June 2, 1951) has been the CEO and Chairman of American Express since 2001. He was the third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He received a B.A. in History from Bowdoin College in 1973, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1976. After Harvard he worked as an associate with the law firm Rogers & Wells in New York City, and as a consultant for Bain & Company. - Warren Buffet
Warren Edward Buffett (b. August 30 1930, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American investor, businessperson and philanthropist. Buffett has amassed an enormous fortune from astute investments managed through the holding company Berkshire Hathaway, of which he is the largest shareholder and CEO. With an estimated current net worth of around US$52 billion, he was ranked by "Forbes" as the third-richest person in the world as of April 2007, … - Gary Crittenden
Gary Crittenden (born 1953) is the Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup, succeeding Sallie Krawcheck from 12 March 2007. Prior to joining Citigroup, Crittenden was Executive Vice President and CFO of American Express, as well as the head of the company's Global Network Services division. At American Express, he is credited with an ambitious re-engineering effort as well as a Corporate Portfolio Management effort which aimed to optimize the enterprise's resource allocation. - Harvey Golub
Harvey Golub is the Chairman of the Board at the Campbell Soup Company as of January 2006. - Henry Wells
Henry Wells (December 12 1805 - December 10 1878) was an American businessman. He was born in Thetford, Vermont and moved to New York as a child. He started a school for speech disorders in his twenties, due to his own speaking problems. In 1836 he became a freight agent on the Erie Canal and soon founded his own company. In 1841 Wells hired William Fargo and soon the two men formed the American Express company. - Jack Larson
Jack Edward Larson (born February 8, 1928 in Los Angeles), graduated from Montebello High School in 1945, is an American actor, librettist, screenwriter and producer. He was raised in Pasadena, California. He is best known for his portrayal of Jimmy Olsen in the TV series "Adventures of Superman". He has said that he found the role of the cub reporter to be a handicap due to its typecasting of him. He has not done much acting since then, … - David Crane
David Crane (born in Nappanee, Indiana) is a video game designer and programmer. Crane started his programming career at Atari, making games for the Atari 2600. After meeting up with co-worker Alan Miller in a tennis game, Miller discussed with him a plan he had to leave and found a company that would give game designers more recognition. From this meeting, he left Atari in 1979 and co-founded Activision, along with Miller, Jim Levy, Bob Whitehead and Larry Kaplan. - James D. Robinson III
James Dixon Robinson III (born 1930) was the chief executive officer of American Express Co. from 1977 until his retirement from that company in 1993. He is a 1957 graduate of Georgia Tech's School of Industrial Management where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. While with American Express, Mr. Robinson played a prominent role in the RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout battle as chronicled in the book "Barbarians at the Gate" (1991) by Bryan Burrough. - Karl Malden
Karl Malden (born on March 22, 1912) is an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor, known for his expansive manner. In a career that spanned over seven decades, he was featured in classic films such as "A Streetcar Named Desire", "On the Waterfront" and "One-Eyed Jacks", with Marlon Brando, and also starred in the blockbuster movie, "Patton". - Daisy Fuentes
Daisy Fuentes (born November 17, 1966 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban model and actress. Daisy Fuentes was born in Cuba, but moved to Madrid, Spain when she was three years old. Four years later, she emigrated to Harrison, New Jersey. Fuentes studied communications and journalism at Bergen Community College, finally being selected as the weather-girl for WNJU Channel 47, a Telemundo station. - William Fargo
William George Fargo (May 20, 1818 - August 3, 1881), pioneer American expressman, was born in Pompey, New York. From the age of thirteen he had to support himself, obtaining little schooling, and for several years he was a clerk in grocery stores in Syracuse. He became a freight agent for the Auburn & Syracuse railway company at Auburn in 1841, an express messenger between Albany and Buffalo a year later, and in 1843 a resident agent in Buffalo. - Charlene Barshefsky
Charlene Barshefsky served as United States Trade Representative, the country's top trade negotiator, from 1997 to 2001. Prior to that, she was the Deputy USTR from 1993 to 1997. Under Bill Clinton in 1999, she was the primary negotiator with China's Zhu Rongji, laying out the terms for China's eventual entry into the World Trade Organization. She is a now a partner at the Washington, … - Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., KBE, (born in Mineola, New York on March 1, 1942) was chairman of the board of IBM from April 1993 until his retirement in December 2002. He also served as chief executive officer until March 2002. In January 2003, he assumed the position of chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm located in Washington, DC. He was formerly CEO of RJR Nabisco, and also held senior positions at American Express and McKinsey & Company. - Ben Cross
Ben Cross (born Harry Bernard Cross on December 16, 1947 in London, England) is an English actor of the stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Jewish Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 movie "Chariots of Fire". Cross first emerged as a minor actor in the 1977 war film "A Bridge Too Far". He appeared in two "Masterpiece Theatre" miniseries, namely "The Flame Trees of Thika" and "The Citadel", … - Ralph Reed
Ralph Reed was the CEO of American Express in 1957. He was the person who made the decision to create the American Express charge card, first issued in 1958. - Patrick Warburton
Patrick J. Warburton (born November 14, 1964) is an American television actor and voice artist. He is known for his television roles of David Puddy on "Seinfeld", the title role on the live-action version of "The Tick", and the evil Jonny Johnson on the final season of "NewsRadio". He is also the voice of Kronk in "The Emperor's New Groove", bodyguard Brock Samson on "The Venture Bros.", wheelchair-bound Joe Swanson on "Family Guy", … - Linda Evangelista
Linda Evangelista (born May 10, 1965 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Canadian supermodel. - Robert Crandall
Robert Lloyd "Bob" Crandall (born December 6, 1935) is the former president and chairman of American Airlines. Called an industry legend by airline industry observers, Crandall has been the subject of several books and is a member of the Hall of Honor of the Conrad Hilton college. He received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Rhode Island. Robert Crandall was raised in Rhode Island. - Robert D. Walter
Robert D. Walter is an American businessman. In 1971 he purchased Cardinal Foods, a small Ohio food wholesaler, in a leveraged buyout. Cardinal Health is now an $81 billion USD Fortune 100 company and one of the largest distributors of pharmaceuticals, health & beauty products, and hospital supplies in the United States. Walter graduated from St. Charles Preparatory School, has an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Ohio University. - Ursula Burns
Ursula M. Burns (New York, New York, September 20, 1958 -) currently serves as president of Xerox Corporation, named to the position in March 2007. She previously served as president of the company's Business Group Operations and as a corporate senior vice president Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern. She subsequently held several positions in engineering, including product development and planning. - Ron Williams
Ronald Allen Williams is the Chief Executive Officer of Aetna corporation. In 2005, he was named one of Black Enterprise's 75 Most Powerful African Americans In Corporate America. Williams is well-known in collecting circles as one of the formost collectors of German army memorabillia. Williams holds a B.A. in psychology from Roosevelt University and an S.M. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1984 as a Sloan Fellow. - Richard S. Fuld Jr.
Richard Severin Fuld, Jr., (born April 26, 1946, New York, New York), known as "Dick", is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Fuld, received his B.S. from the University of Colorado in 1969 and his M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business in 1973. Nicknamed "The Gorilla" (for his tough-guy attitude) or the "Digital Mind Trader" (for spending so much time in front of his computer as a young trader, … - J.C. Fargo
James Congdell Fargo is a former president of American Express. He was the younger brother of William Fargo, founder of American Express and Wells, Fargo & Co., and became the third president of American Express after William's death in 1881. Sometime between 1888 and 1890, J.C. Fargo took a trip to Europe and returned frustrated and infuriated. Despite the fact that he was president of American Express and that he carried with him traditional letters of credit, … - Vernon Jordan Jr.
Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr. (born August 15, 1935) is a lawyer and business executive in the United States. He served as a close advisor to President William J. Clinton and has become known as an influential figure in American politics. - John McGiver
John Irwin McGiver (November 5 1913, New York City - d. September 9 1975, West Fulton, New York) was an American character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975. He was known for his performances as the religious fanatic Mr. O'Daniel in the film "Midnight Cowboy"; as the kindly Tiffany's salesman in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"; as the ill-fated, … - Lewis Glucksman
Dr Lewis L. Glucksman was a former Lehman Brothers trader and former chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc. Glucksman was born into a second generation Hungarian-Jewish family that lived on the upper west side of Manhattan New York City. He served as a teenage volunteer with the US Navy in World War II. Glucksman graduated from the College of William and Mary and later earned a Master's degree in business administration from New York University. - Frank Popoff
Frank Peter Popoff Ex-Director - Chairman, The Dow Chemical Company *1 Director - Jay Chiat
Jacob Morton "Jay" Chiat (October 25, 1931 - April 23, 2002) was an American advertising designer. Chiat was born in the Bronx in New York City and grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers College, graduating in 1953 and was inducted in its Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2000. He served in the United States Air Force. In 1962, Chiat teamed up with Guy Day to form the Chiat/Day advertising agency in Los Angeles (now TBWAChiatDay). - Jonathan Antin
Jonathan Antin (born August 15, 1967 in Los Angeles County, California) is the owner of two Los Angeles hair salons; Jonathan Salon West Hollywood and Jonathan Salon Beverly Hills. The opening of the latter salon served as the basis for the first season of the reality television series "Blow Out", which chronicled his life as an entrepreneur, hair stylist, and hair product creator. He has worked with celebrities such as Madonna, Kate Bosworth, Kirsten Dunst, … - Robert Savage
Robert Savage (born London 1931) Ex Head of American Express during the 1970s and 1980s. Is a graduate of Harvard University. He is also a past member of the Foreign Exchange Committee. During the Famous Edmond Safra affair of the 1980s he was part of a management group led by Bob Smith which was close to buying the Trade development Bank and American Express for $600 million. The banks largest clients had been approached and they were convinced they could swing a deal, … - Jerry della Femina
Jerry Della Femina (born 1936) is an American advertising executive. Born in Brooklyn, Della Femina graduated from Lafayette High School and attended Brooklyn College. After starting in advertising in 1961, he started his own agency, Della Femina Travisano & Partners, in 1967. A self-styled "publicity slut," Della Femina made headlines for colorful comments throughout his career. His 1971 book "From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor" was a best-seller. - Anne Armstrong
Anne L. Armstrong (b. December 27, 1927) is a United States diplomat, politician, and the first female Counselor to the President; she served in that capacity under both the Ford and Nixon administrations. She was also the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and graduated from Vassar College in 1949. In 1950, she married Tobin Armstrong and moved to Kennedy County, Texas. - Rick Levin
Richard Charles Levin (b. 1947) is an American economist, who has served as president of Yale University since 1993. He is currently the longest serving Ivy League president still in office. Born in San Francisco, California to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. - Will Wheaton
Will Wheaton, born Willie Mack Wheaton, Jr. (October 26) in Laurel, Mississippi, USA is an American singer/songwriter and musician. He grew up in Los Angeles, California and is the son of Gospel singer Juanita Wheaton. He studied music in his teens and was eventually tutored by Furman Fordham, whose former students include Lena Horne. He became a sought-after studio backgroud singer and has performed on projects for Natalie Cole, Coolio, Celine Dion, … - Daniel Akerson
Daniel F. Akerson is a Managing Director of The Carlyle Group and is Co-Head of the U.S. Buyout fund. He is also a director of American Express. - Paul Sloane
Paul Sloane is a British author and speaker on lateral thinking and innovation. He was born in 1950 in Johnstone, Scotland and was educated at St Joseph's College, Blackpool and Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read Engineering. From 1974 to 1984 he worked for IBM in Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing and he was part of the team that launched the IBM PC in the UK in 1982. He became UK Marketing Director and then Managing Director of the database company, Ashton-Tate. - Alan Ansen
Alan Ansen was an American poet and playwright and associate of Beat Generation writers. He was a widely-read scholar who knew many (reportedly seventeen) languages. He grew up on Long Island, and was educated at Harvard. He worked as W. H. Auden's secretary and research assistant in 1948-49; he was the main author of the chronological tables in Auden's "The Portable Greek Reader" and "Poets of the English Language". - Tino de Angelis
Anthony "Tino" De Angelis (born in 1915) was a Bayonne, NJ-based commodities trader who bought and sold vegetable oil futures around the world. In 1962 he started a huge scam, attempting to corner the market for soybean oil, used in salad dressing. In the aftermath of The Great Salad Oil Swindle, investors (51 banks) learned that he had bilked them out of about $175 million in total ($1.2 billion in year 2000 dollars). - William E. Miller
William Edward Miller (March 22, 1914 - June 24, 1983) was a New York politician. He was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 1964 election. Born in Lockport, New York, Miller attended the University of Notre Dame and Albany Law School. He served in the United States Army during World War II, and later helped prosecute German war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. Miller was appointed district attorney of Niagara County, … - Chris Linn
Chris Linn (born March 17, 1976) is an American comedian and magician, who is billed as "America's Magical Funnyman". Born in Rochester, Michigan, a suburb outside of Detroit, Michigan Chris Linn has been a professional entertainer since he was in high school. His theatrical comedy shows mix unique magic effects, stunts, music, and multi-media elements. Although Linn says that his interest in comedy came from listening to Richard Pryor albums at a very young age, …
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