Richard D. ca. Fairbank 1950—

Education: Stanford University, BA, 1972; MBA.

Thomas J. Falk 1958—

Education: University of Wisconsin–Madison, BBA, 1980, Stanford University, MS, 1988.

David N. Farr 1955—

Education: Wake Forest University, BS; Vanderbilt University, MBA, 1980.

Jim Farrell 1943—

Education: University of Detroit, bachelor's in electrical engineering, 1965.

Franz Fehrenbach 1949—

Born: July 1, 1949, in Kenzingen im Breisgau, Germany.

Pierre Féraud

Career: Foncière Euris, president and director general.

E. James Ferland 1942—

Born: March 19, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dominique Ferrero

■ When Dominique Ferrero suddenly resigned his position as deputy chief executive of French banking giant Crédit Agricole in December 2003, the news shook the international banking world. Ferrero, former chief executive officer of Crédit Lyonnais, one of France's biggest banks, had been instrumental in arranging the huge merger between Crédit Lyonnais and Crédit Agricole.

Trevor Fetter 1960—

Born: 1960, in San Diego, California.

John Finnegan 1949—

Born: 1949, in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Carly Fiorina 1954—

Born: September 6, 1954, in Austin, Texas.

Paul Fireman 1944—

Born: February 14, 1944, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jay S. Fishman 1952—

Born: November 4, 1952, in New York, New York.

Niall FitzGerald 1945—

Born: September 13, 1945, in Sligo, Ireland.

Dennis J. FitzSimons 1950—

Born: June 26, 1950, in Queens, New York.

Olav Fjell 1951—

Born: June 28, 1951, in Tromso/, Norway.

John E. Fletcher 1952—

Born: 1952, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

William P. Foley II 1944—

Education: U.S. Military Academy, BS, 1967; Seattle University, MBA, 1970; University of Washington School of Law, JD, 1974.

Jean-Martin Folz 1947—

Born: January 11, 1947, in Strasbourg, Alsace, France.

Scott T. Ford 1962—

Education: University of Arkansas, BS, 1984.

William Clay Ford Jr. 1957—

Born: May 3, 1957, in Dearborn, Michigan.

Gary D. Forsee 1950—

Born: 1950, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Kent B. Foster 1944—

Education: North Carolina State University, BS, 1965; University of Southern California, MBA, 1969.

Charlie Fote 1949—

Education: Central Connecticut State University, BS, 1971.

Jean-René Fourtou 1939—

Born: June 20, 1939, in Libourne, France.

H. Allen Franklin 1944—

Education: University of Alabama, BS, MS.

Tom Freston 1945—

Education: Received undergraduate degree from Saint Michael's College; New York University, MBA, 1970.

Takeo Fukui 1944—

Born: November 28, 1944, in Tokyo, Japan.

Richard S. Fuld Jr. 1946—

Born: April 26, 1946, in New York City, New York.

S. Marce Fuller 1960—

Education: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, BS, 1983; Union College, MS, 1984.

Masaaki Furukawa

Career: Toyota Tsusho Corporation, dates unknown, various positions including president.

Joseph Galli Jr. 1959—

Education: University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, BA, 1980; Loyola College, MBA, 1987.

Louis Gallois 1944—

Education: École des Hautes Études Commerciales; École Nationale d'Administration.

Christopher B. Galvin 1950—

Born: March 21, 1950, in Chicago, Illinois.

Roy A. Gardner 1945—

Born: August 20, 1945, in England.

Bill Gates 1955—

Born: October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington.

David Geffen 1943—

Born: February 21, 1943, in New York City, New York.

Jay M. ca. Gellert 1956—

Born: ca. 1956, in New York City, New York.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr. 1942—

Born: March 1, 1942, in Mineola, New York.

John E. Gherty 1945—

Education: University of Wisconsin–Madison, BA, 1965.

Carlos Ghosn 1954—

Born: March 9, 1954, in Brazil.

Charles K. Gifford 1942—

Born: November 8, 1942, in Providence, Rhode Island.

Raymond V. Gilmartin 1941—

Born: March 6, 1941, in Sayville, New York.

Larry C. Glasscock 1948—

Born: April 4, 1948, in Cullman, Alabama.

Robert D. Glynn Jr. 1942—

Born: 1942, in Orange, New Jersey.

Francisco González Rodríguez 1944—

Born: October 19, 1944, in Chantada, Lugo, Spain.

David R. Goode 1941—

Born: January 13, 1941, in Vinton, Virginia.

Jim Goodnight 1943—

Born: January 1943, in Salisbury, North Carolina.

Fred A. Goodwin 1959—

Born: 1959, in Paisley, United Kingdom.

Chip W. Goodyear 1958—

Born: January 18, 1958, in Hartford, Connecticut.

Andrew Gould 1946—

Born: December 17, 1946, in United Kingdom.

William E. Greehey 1936—

Born: 1936, in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Stephen K. Green 1948—

Born: November 7, 1948, in England.

Hank Greenberg 1925—

Born: May 4, 1925, in New York, New York.

Jeffrey W. Greenberg 1951—

Education: Brown University, AB, 1973; Georgetown University Law School, JD, 1976.

Robert Greenberg 1940—

Family: Son of Harry Greenberg (grocer) and Belle (maiden name unknown); married (wife's name unknown; divorced); children: six.

J. Barry ca. Griswell 1949—

Born: ca. 1949, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Rijkman W. J. Groenink 1949—

Education: University of Utrecht, law degree; Manchester University Business School, DipBA, 1973.

Andy Grove 1936—

Born: September 2, 1936, in Budapest, Hungary.

Oswald J. Grübel 1943—

Born: November 13, 1943, in Germany.

Jerry A. Grundhofer 1945—

Education: Loyola Marymount University, BA, 1967.

Rajiv L. Gupta 1945—

Born: December 23, 1945, in Muzzafarnager, India.

Carlos M. Gutierrez 1953—

Born: November 4, 1953, in Havana, Cuba.

Robert Haas 1942—

Born: 1942, in San Francisco, California.

David D. Halbert 1956—

Education: Abilene Christian University, BS, 1978.

Hiroshi Hamada 1933—

Born: April 28, 1933, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

Toru Hambayashi

Career: Nichimen Corporation, 1997–1998, COO of Chemicals, Plastics, and Energy Group; 1998–1999, COO of Consumer and General Products Group; 1999, executive vice president and chief information officer; 2000–2001, head of Net Commerce Business Team; 2001–2003, president; Nissho Iwai–Nichimen Holdings Corporation, 2003–2004, chairman and co-CEO.

Jürgen Hambrecht 1946—

Education: University of Tübingen, PhD, 1975.

John H. Hammergren 1959—

Born: 1959, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

H. Edward Hanway 1951—

Education: Loyola College of Baltimore, BA, 1974; Widener University, MBA, 1984.

George J. Harad 1944—

Born: April 24, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

William B. Harrison Jr. 1943—

Born: August 12, 1943, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

Richard Harvey 1950—

Born: 1950, in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

William Haseltine 1944—

Born: October 17, 1944, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Andy Haste 1962—

Career: National Westminster Bank, dates unknown, president of U.S. consumer credit retail banking; GE Capital UK, dates unknown, president and chief executive officer of Global Consumer Finance Europe; AXA Sun Life, 1999–2003, chief executive officer and director of AXA UK; Royal & SunAlliance, 2003–, chief executive officer.

Lewis Hay III

Education: Lehigh University, bachelor's degree; Carnegie Mellon University, MBA.

William F. Hecht 1943—

Born: March 18, 1943, in New York, New York.

Bert Heemskerk 1943—

Born: April 13, 1943, in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.

Rainer Hertrich 1949—

Born: December 6, 1949, in Ottengrün, Germany.

John B. Hess 1954—

Education: Harvard College, BA, 1975; Harvard University, MBA, 1977.

Laurence E. Hirsch 1946—

Born: 1946, in New York, New York.

Betsy Holden 1955—

Born: October 19, 1955, in Lubbock, Texas.

Chad Holliday 1948—

Education: University of Tennessee, BS, 1970.

Katsuhiko Honda

Career: Japan Tobacco, 1994–1995, executive director, personnel and labor relations; 1995–1996, executive director, tobacco headquarters; 1996–1998, executive vice president; 1998–2000, senior executive vice president; 2000–, president and chief executive officer; 2001–, representative director.

van B. Honeycutt 1945—

Family: Married Diana (maiden name unknown); children: one.

Kazutomo Robert Hori 1965—

Born: 1965, in Washington, D.C.

Janice Bryant Howroyd 1952—

Born: September 1, 1952, in Tarboro, North Carolina.

Ancle Hsu 1961—

Family: Married (wife's name unknown); children: two.

Günther Hülse 1942—

Born: November 21, 1942, in Krefeld, Germany.

L. Phillip Humann 1946—

Education: Auburn University, BS, 1967; MS, 1969.

Franz B. Humer 1946—

Education: University of Innsbruck, Doctor of Law; INSEAD, MBA.

Nobuyuki Idei 1937—

Born: November 22, 1937, in Tokyo, Japan.

Robert Iger 1951—

Born: February 10, 1951, in New York, New York.

Jeffrey R. Immelt 1956—

Born: February 19, 1956, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Ray R. Irani 1935—

Born: January 13, 1935, in Beirut, Lebanon.

Michael J. Jackson 1949—

Education: Saint Joseph's College, BA, 1971.

Tony James 1951—

Born: February 3, 1951, in Wyandotte, Michigan.

Charles H. Jenkins Jr. 1944—

Education: Emory University, BBA, 1964; MBA, 1965; Harvard, PhD, 1969.

David Ji 1952—

Family: Married (wife's name unknown); children: one.

Jiang Jianqing

Education: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, BS; Shanghai Jiaotong University, MS.

Steve Jobs 1955—

Born: February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California.

Jeffrey A. Joerres 1960—

Career: IBM Corporation, 1983–1987, various management positions; ARI Network Services, 1987–1993, vice president of sales and marketing; Manpower, 1993–1995, vice president of marketing, 1995–1998, senior vice president of Major Account Development, 1998–1999, senior vice president of European Operations, 1999–2001, CEO and president, 2001–, chairman, CEO, and president.

Leif Johansson 1951—

Born: August 30, 1951, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Abby Johnson 1961—

Born: December 19, 1961, in Boston, Massachusetts.

John D. Johnson 1949—

Born: September 24, 1949, in Rhame, North Dakota.

John H. Johnson 1918—

Born: January 18, 1918, in Arkansas City, Arkansas.

Robert L. Johnson 1946—

Born: April 8, 1946, in Hickory, Mississippi.

William R. Johnson 1949—

Education: University of California–Los Angeles, BA, 1971; University of Texas–Austin, MBA, 1974.

Lawrence R. Johnston 1949—

Career: General Electric (GE), 1972, management trainee; 1972–1978, retail-sales management in GE Appliances (GEA); 1979–1983, marketing manager; 1983–1989, merchandising manager for Washington, D.C., then Cleveland, Ohio, regions, then manager of GEA's Eastern Sales and Distribution, president of International GE Puerto Rico, general manager of Domestic Sales Operations; 1989–1997, vice president of sales and distribution for GEA and corporate vice president; 1997–1999, president and CEO of GE Medical Systems, Europe; 1999–2000, president and CEO of GEA and corporate senior vice president; Albertsons, 2001–, chairman and CEO.

Jeff Jordan 1959—

Education: Amherst College, BA; Stanford University, MBA, 1987.

Michael H. Jordan 1936—

Born: June 13, 1936, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Abdallah Jum'ah 1941—

Born: 1941, in al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

Andrea Jung 1959—

Born: 1959, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

William G. Jurgensen 1952—

Education: Creighton University, BBA, 1973; MBA, 1976.

Eugene S. Kahn

Education: City College of New York, BA, 1971.

Akinobu Kanasugi 1941—

Born: 1941, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Isao Kaneko 1938—

Born: March 1, 1938, in Japan.

Ryotaro Kaneko 1939—

Career: Meiji Life Insurance Company, 1994, managing director, 1994–1998, senior managing director; 1998–2004, president; Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group, 2001–, director; auditor with Japanese Institute for Overseas Investment; Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company, 2004–, president.

Mel Karmazin 1943—

Born: August 24, 1943, in New York, New York.

Karen Katen 1948—

Born: 1948, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Jeffrey Katzenberg 1950—

Born: December 21, 1950, in New York, New York.

Jim Kavanaugh 1963—

Born: 1963, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Robert Keegan 1947—

Born: 1947, in Rochester, New York.

Herb Kelleher 1931—

Born: March 12, 1931, in Camden, New Jersey.

Edmund F. Kelly 1946—

Education: Queen's University, Belfast, bachelor's degree; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky 1963—

Born: June 26, 1963, in Moscow, USSR.

Naina Lal Kidwai 1957—

Education: Delhi University, BS, 1977; Harvard University, MBA, 1982.

Kerry K. Killinger 1949—

Born: June 6, 1949, in Des Moines, Iowa.

James M. Kilts 1948—

Born: February 10, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois.

Eric Kim 1954—

Education: Harvey Mudd College, BS; University of California–Los Angeles, MS; Harvard, MBA.

Kim Jung-tae 1947—

Born: August 15, 1947, in South Chohlla, Korea.

Ewald Kist 1944—

Born: January 22, 1944, in Wassenaar, Netherlands.

Gerard J. Kleisterlee 1946—

Education: Eindhoven Technical University, degree in electronic engineering.

Lowry F. Kline 1940—

Education: University of Tennessee, BA, 1962; JD, 1965.

Philip H. Knight 1938—

Born: February 24, 1938, in Portland, Oregon.

Charles Koch 1935—

Born: November 1, 1935, in Wichita, Kansas.

Richard Jay Kogan 1941—

Born: June 6, 1941, in Bronx, New York.

John Koo 1946—

Born: December 11, 1946, in Jinjoo, Kyongsang Nambo province, Korea.

Timothy Koogle 1951—

Education: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, BS, 1973; Stanford University, MS, 1975, PhD, 1977.

Hans-Joachim Körber 1946—

Born: July 9, 1946, in Brunswick, Germany.

Richard M. Kovacevich 1943—

Born: October 30, 1943, in Tacoma, Washington.

Dennis Kozlowski 1946—

Born: November 16, 1946, in Newark, New Jersey.

Sallie Krawcheck 1965—

Born: 1965, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ronald L. Kuehn Jr. 1935—

Born: April 6, 1935, in New York City, New York.

Ken Kutaragi 1950—

Born: August 2, 1950, in Tokyo, Japan.

Alan J. Lacy 1953—

Born: October 19, 1953, in Cleveland, Tennessee.

A. G. Lafley 1947—

Born: June 13, 1947, in Keene, New Hampshire.

Igor Landau 1944—

Born: July 13, 1944, in Saint-Flour-Cantal, France.

Robert W. Lane 1949—

Born: November 14, 1949, in Washington, D.C.

Sherry Lansing 1944—

Born: July 31, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois.

Jean Laurent 1944—

Education: École Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique; Wichita State University, MS.

Kase L. Lawal 1954—

Education: Texas Southern University, BS, 1976; Prairie View A&M, MBA, 1978.

Rob Lawes 1967—

Career: Video Arts Television, 1986–1989, runner, chief accountant; HIT Entertainment, 1989–, various positions, including director of finance, director of corporate development, commercial director, and chief executive officer.

Ken Lay 1942—

Born: April 15, 1942, in Tyrone, Missouri.

Shelly Lazarus 1947—

Education: Smith College, BA, 1968; Columbia University, MBA, 1970.

Terry Leahy 1956—

Born: February 28, 1956, in Liverpool, England.

Lee Yong-kyung 1943—

Born: June 11, 1943, in Anyang, South Korea.

David J. Lesar 1954—

Education: University of Wisconsin, BS, 1975, MBA, 1978.

R. Steve ca. Letbetter 1959—

Born: ca. 1959, in San Saba, Texas.

Gerald Levin 1939—

Born: May 1939, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Arthur Levinson 1950—

Born: March 31, 1950, in Seattle, Washington.

Kenneth D. Lewis 1947—

Born: April 9, 1947, in Meridian, Mississippi.

Victor Li 1964—

Born: 1964, in Hong Kong, China.

Li Ka-shing 1928—

Born: June 13, 1928, in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.

Alfred C. Liggins III 1965—

Education: Attended University of California, Los Angeles, and University of the District of Columbia; University of Pennsylvania, MBA, 1995.

Liu Chuanzhi 1944—

Born: April 29, 1944, in Shanghai, China.

J. Bruce Llewellyn 1927—

Born: July 16, 1927, in New York, New York.

Lu Weiding

Career: Wanxiang Group Corporation, 2003–, president.

Iain Lumsden 1946—

Born: June 6, 1946, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.

Terry J. Lundgren 1952—

Education: University of Arizona, BA, 1974.