Jamie Dimon. Dimon is one of the few bank chief executives to become a billionaire, thanks in part to a USD 485 million stake in JPMorgan Chase.[7] He received a $23 million pay package for the fiscal year 2011, more than any other bank CEO in the United States.[8] Dimon received $20 million in compensation for his work in the fiscal year 2013.[9] He earned $28.2 million in 2016.[1]
Sanford I. Weill. Sanford I.
"Sandy" Weill (/waɪl/; born March 16, 1933) is an American banker, financier and philanthropist.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] He is a former chief executive and chairman of Citigroup. César Ritz. David Sarnoff. David Sarnoff (Belarusian: Даві́д Сарно́ў, Russian: Дави́д Сарно́в, February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) was a Belarusian-born American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television.
Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970. Sarnoff is credited with Sarnoff's law, which states that the value of a broadcast network is proportional to the number of viewers. Lionel Logue. Bruce Kovner. Bruce Stanley Kovner (born 1945 in Bronx, New York ) is an American businessman .
He is the founder and Chairman of Caxton Associates , a hedge fund that trades a global macro strategy and is considered amongst the worlds top and largest 10 hedge funds with an estimated $14 billion under management . [ 4 ] In March 2011, Kovner had an estimated net worth of around $4.5 billion. [ 5 ] Described as secretive even by family and friends, the divorcee is perhaps one of the least known New York City billionaires outside of professional circles.
His Caxton Associates, despite the large amount of assets under management , is known to be amongst the top 25 most enigmatic and secretive hedge funds globally. [ 6 ] He is a leading philanthropist and former chairman of American Enterprise Institute . [ edit ] Biography Kovner was born into a Russian Jewish family who immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, in the early 1900s from Tsarist Russia , fleeing persecution for their left-wing and atheist beliefs. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Early life and education[edit] Political career[edit] Moynihan's political career started in the 1950s when he served as a member of New York governor Averell Harriman's staff, a stint which ended following Harriman's loss to Nelson Rockefeller in the 1958 general election.
Two years later, Moynihan was a delegate to the 1960 Democratic National Convention as part of John F. Kennedy's delegate pool. Assistant Secretary of Labor; controversy over the War on Poverty[edit] Moynihan was an Assistant Secretary of Labor for policy in the Kennedy Administration and in the early part of the Lyndon Johnson Administration. They took inspiration from the book Slavery written by Stanley Elkins. Moynihan issued his research under the title The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, now commonly known as The Moynihan Report. Local New York City politics and academic career[edit] By the 1964 election, Moynihan was politically supporting Robert F. Daniel Kahneman. Herb Kelleher. Herbert "Herb" David Kelleher (born March 12, 1931) is the co-founder, Chairman Emeritus, and former CEO of Southwest Airlines (based in the United States).
Early life and career[edit] Kelleher was born in Camden, New Jersey on March 12, 1931 and raised in Audubon, New Jersey, where he graduated from Haddon Heights High School.[1] He has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University where he was an Olin Scholar and where his major was English and his minor Philosophy, and a Juris Doctor from New York University where he was a Root-Tilden Scholar.[2] At Wesleyan he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He is married to the former Joan Negley and they have four children. Career[edit] The Kellehers moved to Texas intending to start a law firm or a business. Eugène Schueller. Eugène Paul Louis Schueller (20 March 1881 Paris – 23 August 1957) was the founder of L'Oréal, the world's leading company in cosmetics and beauty.
He was one of the founders of modern advertising. Career with L'Oréal[edit] As a young French chemist and 1904 graduate of the Institut de Chimie Appliquée de Paris (now Chimie ParisTech), Eugene Schueller developed in 1907 an innovative hair-color formula. He called his dye Oréale. With that, the history of L'Oréal began. In 1909, he registered his company, the "Société Française de Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux", the future L'Oréal. Controversy[edit] During the early twentieth century, Schueller provided financial support and held meetings for La Cagoule at L'Oréal headquarters. Michael Dell. Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965) is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author.
He is known as the founder and CEO of Dell Inc., one of the world’s leading sellers of personal computers (PCs). He was ranked the 41st richest person in the world on 2012 Forbes list of billionaires, with a net worth of US$15.9 billion as of March 2012.[1] In 2011, his 243.35 million shares of Dell stock were worth $3.5 billion, giving him 12% ownership of the company.[2] His remaining wealth of roughly $10 billion is invested in other companies and is managed by a firm whose name, MSD Capital, incorporates Dell's initials.[3] On January 5, 2013 it was announced that Michael Dell had bid to take Dell Inc. private for $24.4 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout since the Great Recession.
Steve Jobs. American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Steven Paul Jobs (; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc., the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer.
Together the duo gained fame and wealth a year later with the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers. Background. Hasmukhbhai Parekh. Hasmukhbhai Parekh (born March 10, 1911) (died 1994) was an Indian financial entrepreneur, writer, and philanthropist.
He played a role in the development of Industrial Credit & Investment Corporation of India, now ICICI Bank, founded the Housing Development Finance Corporation, and in 1992 was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to the finance industry in India. The London School of Economics also conferred on him an honorary fellowship. Hasmukhbhai Parekh belonged to a Gujarati vaishnav-Bania family from Surat, Gujarat.