Education: Stanford University, BA, 1972; MBA.
Education: University of Wisconsin–Madison, BBA, 1980, Stanford University, MS, 1988.
Education: Wake Forest University, BS; Vanderbilt University, MBA, 1980.
Education: University of Detroit, bachelor's in electrical engineering, 1965.
Born: July 1, 1949, in Kenzingen im Breisgau, Germany.
Career: Foncière Euris, president and director general.
Born: March 19, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts.
■ 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.
Born: 1960, in San Diego, California.
Born: 1949, in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Born: September 6, 1954, in Austin, Texas.
Born: February 14, 1944, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Born: November 4, 1952, in New York, New York.
Born: September 13, 1945, in Sligo, Ireland.
Born: June 26, 1950, in Queens, New York.
Born: June 28, 1951, in Tromso/, Norway.
Born: 1952, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Education: U.S. Military Academy, BS, 1967; Seattle University, MBA, 1970; University of Washington School of Law, JD, 1974.
Born: January 11, 1947, in Strasbourg, Alsace, France.
Education: University of Arkansas, BS, 1984.
Born: May 3, 1957, in Dearborn, Michigan.
Born: 1950, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Education: North Carolina State University, BS, 1965; University of Southern California, MBA, 1969.
Education: Central Connecticut State University, BS, 1971.
Born: June 20, 1939, in Libourne, France.
Education: University of Alabama, BS, MS.
Education: Received undergraduate degree from Saint Michael's College; New York University, MBA, 1970.
Born: November 28, 1944, in Tokyo, Japan.
Born: April 26, 1946, in New York City, New York.
Education: University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, BS, 1983; Union College, MS, 1984.
Career: Toyota Tsusho Corporation, dates unknown, various positions including president.
Education: University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, BA, 1980; Loyola College, MBA, 1987.
Education: École des Hautes Études Commerciales; École Nationale d'Administration.
Born: March 21, 1950, in Chicago, Illinois.
Born: August 20, 1945, in England.
Born: October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington.
Born: February 21, 1943, in New York City, New York.
Born: ca. 1956, in New York City, New York.
Born: March 1, 1942, in Mineola, New York.
Education: University of Wisconsin–Madison, BA, 1965.
Born: March 9, 1954, in Brazil.
Born: November 8, 1942, in Providence, Rhode Island.
Born: March 6, 1941, in Sayville, New York.
Born: April 4, 1948, in Cullman, Alabama.
Born: 1942, in Orange, New Jersey.
Born: October 19, 1944, in Chantada, Lugo, Spain.
Born: January 13, 1941, in Vinton, Virginia.
Born: January 1943, in Salisbury, North Carolina.
Born: 1959, in Paisley, United Kingdom.
Born: January 18, 1958, in Hartford, Connecticut.
Born: December 17, 1946, in United Kingdom.
Born: 1936, in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Born: November 7, 1948, in England.
Born: May 4, 1925, in New York, New York.
Education: Brown University, AB, 1973; Georgetown University Law School, JD, 1976.
Family: Son of Harry Greenberg (grocer) and Belle (maiden name unknown); married (wife's name unknown; divorced); children: six.
Born: ca. 1949, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Education: University of Utrecht, law degree; Manchester University Business School, DipBA, 1973.
Born: September 2, 1936, in Budapest, Hungary.
Born: November 13, 1943, in Germany.
Education: Loyola Marymount University, BA, 1967.
Born: December 23, 1945, in Muzzafarnager, India.
Born: November 4, 1953, in Havana, Cuba.
Born: 1942, in San Francisco, California.
Education: Abilene Christian University, BS, 1978.
Born: April 28, 1933, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
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.
Education: University of Tübingen, PhD, 1975.
Born: 1959, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Education: Loyola College of Baltimore, BA, 1974; Widener University, MBA, 1984.
Born: April 24, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Born: August 12, 1943, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Born: 1950, in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
Born: October 17, 1944, in St. Louis, Missouri.
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.
Education: Lehigh University, bachelor's degree; Carnegie Mellon University, MBA.
Born: March 18, 1943, in New York, New York.
Born: April 13, 1943, in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
Born: December 6, 1949, in Ottengrün, Germany.
Education: Harvard College, BA, 1975; Harvard University, MBA, 1977.
Born: 1946, in New York, New York.
Born: October 19, 1955, in Lubbock, Texas.
Education: University of Tennessee, BS, 1970.
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.
Family: Married Diana (maiden name unknown); children: one.
Born: 1965, in Washington, D.C.
Born: September 1, 1952, in Tarboro, North Carolina.
Family: Married (wife's name unknown); children: two.
Born: November 21, 1942, in Krefeld, Germany.
Education: Auburn University, BS, 1967; MS, 1969.
Education: University of Innsbruck, Doctor of Law; INSEAD, MBA.
Born: November 22, 1937, in Tokyo, Japan.
Born: February 10, 1951, in New York, New York.
Born: February 19, 1956, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Born: January 13, 1935, in Beirut, Lebanon.
Education: Saint Joseph's College, BA, 1971.
Born: February 3, 1951, in Wyandotte, Michigan.
Education: Emory University, BBA, 1964; MBA, 1965; Harvard, PhD, 1969.
Family: Married (wife's name unknown); children: one.
Education: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, BS; Shanghai Jiaotong University, MS.
Born: February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California.
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.
Born: August 30, 1951, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Born: December 19, 1961, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Born: September 24, 1949, in Rhame, North Dakota.
Born: January 18, 1918, in Arkansas City, Arkansas.
Born: April 8, 1946, in Hickory, Mississippi.
Education: University of California–Los Angeles, BA, 1971; University of Texas–Austin, MBA, 1974.
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.
Education: Amherst College, BA; Stanford University, MBA, 1987.
Born: June 13, 1936, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Born: 1941, in al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
Born: 1959, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Education: Creighton University, BBA, 1973; MBA, 1976.
Education: City College of New York, BA, 1971.
Born: 1941, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Born: March 1, 1938, in Japan.
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.
Born: August 24, 1943, in New York, New York.
Born: 1948, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Born: December 21, 1950, in New York, New York.
Born: 1963, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Born: 1947, in Rochester, New York.
Born: March 12, 1931, in Camden, New Jersey.
Education: Queen's University, Belfast, bachelor's degree; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD.
Born: June 26, 1963, in Moscow, USSR.
Education: Delhi University, BS, 1977; Harvard University, MBA, 1982.
Born: June 6, 1949, in Des Moines, Iowa.
Born: February 10, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois.
Education: Harvey Mudd College, BS; University of California–Los Angeles, MS; Harvard, MBA.
Born: August 15, 1947, in South Chohlla, Korea.
Born: January 22, 1944, in Wassenaar, Netherlands.
Education: Eindhoven Technical University, degree in electronic engineering.
Education: University of Tennessee, BA, 1962; JD, 1965.
Born: February 24, 1938, in Portland, Oregon.
Born: November 1, 1935, in Wichita, Kansas.
Born: June 6, 1941, in Bronx, New York.
Born: December 11, 1946, in Jinjoo, Kyongsang Nambo province, Korea.
Education: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, BS, 1973; Stanford University, MS, 1975, PhD, 1977.
Born: July 9, 1946, in Brunswick, Germany.
Born: October 30, 1943, in Tacoma, Washington.
Born: November 16, 1946, in Newark, New Jersey.
Born: 1965, in Charleston, South Carolina.
Born: April 6, 1935, in New York City, New York.
Born: August 2, 1950, in Tokyo, Japan.
Born: October 19, 1953, in Cleveland, Tennessee.
Born: June 13, 1947, in Keene, New Hampshire.
Born: July 13, 1944, in Saint-Flour-Cantal, France.
Born: November 14, 1949, in Washington, D.C.
Born: July 31, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois.
Education: École Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique; Wichita State University, MS.
Education: Texas Southern University, BS, 1976; Prairie View A&M, MBA, 1978.
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.
Born: April 15, 1942, in Tyrone, Missouri.
Education: Smith College, BA, 1968; Columbia University, MBA, 1970.
Born: February 28, 1956, in Liverpool, England.
Born: June 11, 1943, in Anyang, South Korea.
Education: University of Wisconsin, BS, 1975, MBA, 1978.
Born: ca. 1959, in San Saba, Texas.
Born: May 1939, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Born: March 31, 1950, in Seattle, Washington.
Born: April 9, 1947, in Meridian, Mississippi.
Born: 1964, in Hong Kong, China.
Born: June 13, 1928, in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.
Education: Attended University of California, Los Angeles, and University of the District of Columbia; University of Pennsylvania, MBA, 1995.
Born: April 29, 1944, in Shanghai, China.
Born: July 16, 1927, in New York, New York.
Career: Wanxiang Group Corporation, 2003–, president.
Born: June 6, 1946, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
Education: University of Arizona, BA, 1974.