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Dan Cathy
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Daniel Truett Cathy was born into the world in 1st March, 1953 in Jonesboro, Georgia as the primary offspring of Jeanette (McNeil) and S. Truett Cathy. He is an American finance manager. He is director, president, and CEO of inexpensive food chain Chick-fil-A, which was established and extended by his dad, S. Truett Cathy. He has a total assets of $7.1 billion as of November 2020.

Cathy said in July 2012 that he goes against same-sex marriage and supports moderate Christian causes. Duty records acquired in 2011 showed that Chick-fil-An's administrators, the WinShape Foundation, and the Cathy family burned through huge number of dollars to crush same-sex marriage drives and to give change treatment. In March 2014, he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that it's anything but a "botch" for the WinShape Foundation to "support political or social plans" in the period before 2012, when this was accounted for and a public discussion broke out during a period of discussion about same-sex relationships. Regardless of this assertion, Cathy keeps on adding to crusades zeroed in on his philosophical political plan. Cathy father had as of late began a café known as the Dwarf House. Cathy has a more youthful sibling, Bubba Cathy and sister Trudy. Also their family encouraged various kids throughout the long term. He started doing radio advertisements for his dad's unique Dwarf House eatery in Hapeville, Georgia in the last part of the 1960s, while he was going to neighborhood schools. At that point, his dad was building up extra cafés around Atlanta and Georgia as he made the establishment chain known as Chick-fil-A. Cathy acquired a four year certification in business organization from Georgia Southern University in 1975. After graduation, he started working all day for his dad's organization, which had effectively been set up as an establishment chain. Cathy is hitched, with two youngsters. He and his family live in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cathy began as head of activities, ultimately being elevated in 2013 to president and CEO. Cathy invests a lot of his energy visiting the chain's 2,000 eateries. Cathy holds privileged doctorates from the University of West Georgia, Anderson College, Carver Bible College, and Pepperdine University. His family runs the WinShape Foundation, a non-benefit which upholds a gathering of Southern Baptist services.

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Daniel Vasella
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Daniel Lucius Vasella, M.D. (born 15 August 1953) is a medical doctor, author, and executive who served as CEO and chairman of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, the world's fifth largest drug company. During his tenure the Novartis shares declined 10%, below the industry.

In November 2014, Vasella was elected as a member of the Board of Directors at XBiotech, Inc., a Biopharmaceutical Company located in Austin, TX that focuses on the discovery and commercialization of a next generation of therapeutic antibodies which harness a human's natural immunity to fight disease. Vasella is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004, Time magazine named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people, and he was chosen as the Most Influential European Business Leader of the Last 25 Years by the readers of the Financial Times. He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.

Career:

Vasella held a number of medical positions in Switzerland before being hired in 1988 by Sandoz Pharmaceutical Corporation, the former U.S. subsidiary of Swiss pharmaceutical company, Sandoz. He remained there until 1992, when he was promoted to CEO of parent company, Sandoz Pharma Ltd., and named a member of the Group Executive Committee.

Vasella helped to orchestrate the 1996 merger between Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy, another Swiss pharmaceutical company. The two companies combined to form Novartis AG. Vasella was appointed CEO of the combined entity and a member of the Board of Directors. In 1999, he was named Chairman of the Board of Directors.

In January 2010, Vasella decided to step down as CEO. He was replaced by his hand-picked successor, Joseph Jimenez, the Division Head of Novartis Pharmaceuticals at the time.

In January 2013, Novartis announced that Vasella would be retiring as Chairman of the Board of Directors in February 2013. Vasella was named an honorary chairman, to be succeeded by Jörg Reinhard in August 2013. According to the Ethos foundation Vasella earned from 2002 until 2012 312 Mio CHF from Novartis, and for the years before they estimated it to 60 Mio CHF, a total of 421 Mio CHF in 2013. That he should get 72 Mio CHF for a noncompetition clause at the end made him a public figure during the campaign for the Swiss referendum "against rip-off salaries".

Writing:

Vasella authored Magic Cancer Bullet: How a Tiny Orange Pill May Rewrite Medical History (2003), a book about the discovery and development of the breakthrough cancer drug Gleevec. The book was co-written with Robert Slater.

Personal life:

Vasella met Anne-Laurence Moret, the niece of former Sandoz CFO, CEO, and chairman Marc Moret, in 1973, and they were married in 1978. Vasella and his wife have two grown sons and a daughter. His older brother, Andrea Vasella, was a professor at the ETH Zurich. Vasella is a patron of the arts and enjoys skiing and spending time outdoors.

Awards and recognition:

Vasella has received numerous awards for his humanitarian efforts, corporate philanthropy work, and his leadership in the Pharmaceutical industry. They include:

2003: Harvard Alumnus Award:

2004: Most Influential European Business Leader of the Last 25 Years by the readers of Financial Times
2004: Time magazine: One of the Top 100 Most Influential Personalities
2004: The Cancer Research Institute’s Oliver R. Grace Award (for Distinguished Service in Advancing Cancer Research)
University of Marburg’s Karl Winnacker Preis 2007
Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2008
GILD Award for Leadership: Warren Bennis Award for Excellence in Leadership 2010

Dan Schulman
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Daniel H. Schulman was born in 19th January, 1958 in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. He is an American business leader. He is president and Chief executive officer (CEO) of PayPal, once in the past filling in as gathering leader of big business development at American Express. Schulman was responsible for American Express' worldwide procedure to extend elective versatile and online instalment administrations, structure new associations, and fabricate income streams past the conventional card and travel businesses. Earlier, he filled in as leader of Sprint's prepaid gathering and the establishing CEO of Virgin Mobile.

At the point when he was CEO of Virgin Mobile, Schulman drove an organization with Stand Up For Kids, a charitable that conveys endurance packs and a hotline number to destitute youth. To get a more genuine feeling of what destitute children experience, Schulman once went through 24 hours in the city of New York City, bristly, enclosed by a cover, and without cash, a watch, or a wireless. His mom, S. Ruth Schulman, was partner dignitary of Rutgers' Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) from 1974 to 1999. His dad, Mel Schulman, was a substance chemical engineer. Schulman has practiced Krav Maga since his youngsters has expressed that he follows a similar way of thinking in business. He said in a meeting, "there's a way of thinking in combative techniques which is, 'Never stop.' Standing actually is requesting to be hit. You generally must face a few challenges going ahead. You can't tolerate stilling". He has been an occupant of Warren Township, New Jersey.

Schulman started his business profession at AT&T, working over 18 years there and turning into the most youthful individual from the organization's senior chief team. Schulman began at a section level record the board position; when he left AT&T, he was leader of the $22 billion customer significant distance business, overseeing 40,000 employees.  He then, at that point became president and COO, and afterward CEO of Priceline.com. During his two years there, Priceline's yearly incomes developed from a detailed $20 million to about $1 billion. Schulman recently filled in as Non-Executive Chairman of NortonLifeLock (once Symantec Corporation). In September 2018, he was chosen as an individual from the Verizon Board of Directors. Schulman additionally served on the warning panel of Greycroft Partners, a private value organization zeroed in on beginning phase new media and innovation organizations. On 30th September, 2014, it was reported that Schulman would become CEO of PayPal, which would proceed as a different legitimate substance, split from eBay in 2015. His residency was additionally set apart by the $2.2 billion obtaining of European installment supplier iZettle, PayPal's second biggest buy to date. He has expressed that his objectives at PayPal incorporate giving monetary instruments to the 70 million Americans underserved by the U.S. monetary framework.  PayPal had its most grounded strong financial results ever in the primary quarter of 2021. Schulman has reported designs to expand on PayPal's effective quarter with a PayPal "Digital wallet".

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Dara Khosrowshahi
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Dara Khosrowshahi was born into the world in 28th May, 1969 Iran into a rich family and grow up childhood in a mansion on the family compound. is an Iranian-American financial specialist and the CEO of Uber. Khosrowshahi was previously CEO of Expedia Group, an organization that owns a few travel fare aggregators. He is additionally an member from the directors     of BET.com, and Hotels.com, and recently served on the leading group of The New York Times Company.

He is the most youthful of the three children of Lili and Asghar Khosrowshahi, has two youngsters from his first marriage; a girl, Chloe and a boy, Alex.  On 12th December, 2012, Khosrowshahi wedded Sydney Shapiro, a previous preschool instructor and entertainer. He commended his wife for wearing a Slayer T-shirt to the wedding, which was held in Las Vegas. The couple has twin children, Hayes Epic and Hugo Gubrit. His uncle, Hassan Khosrowshahi, additionally escaped Iran because of the Iranian Revolution and is currently a billionaire person.

In 1978, just before the Iranian Revolution, his family was focused on for its riches and his mom chose to abandon everything and escape the country. Their organization was later nationalized. In 1991, Khosrowshahi joined Allen and Company, a investment bank, as an analyst. In 1998, he left Allen and Company to work for one of his previous customers at the bank, Barry Diller, first at Diller's USA Networks, where he held on the positions of senior VP for vital arranging and afterward president, and later as CFO of IAC, another organization constrained by Diller.

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Dave Calhoun
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David L. Calhoun (conceived April 18, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He experienced childhood in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he moved on from Parkland High School in 1975. is an American money manager, and president and CEO of The Boeing Company since January 2020. He was formerly Boeing's chairman. He was designated after the then CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, ventured down in the midst of security issues in regards to the 737 MAX after two lethal accidents that killed 346 travelers and group ready.

He was in secondary school, Calhoun was one of three commanders of the varsity ball group and he played golf. In 1979, he moved on from Virginia Tech with a degree in bookkeeping. In 2018, Calhoun gave $20 million to Virginia Tech.

After Calhoun moved on from school, he acquired work at General Electric (GE). He chose to work for GE around then, because of its nearness to where he lived in Lehigh Valley.[citation needed] He worked at GE for a very long time, supervising transportation, airplane motors, reinsurance, lighting and other GE units, before eventually being named as bad habit administrator of the organization and an individual from GE's Board of Directors in 2005.

Calhoun left GE to join secretly held worldwide data benefits firm VNU as CEO in 2006. Under his initiative the organization rebranded itself as Nielsen Holdings, gotten back to the public business sectors in 2011, and was added to the S&P 500 Index in 2013.[citation needed] In 2014, Calhoun became chief executive of Nielsen, and furthermore joined The Blackstone Group as a senior overseeing chief and head of portfolio tasks and an individual from Blackstone's administration board of trustees. Blackstone had been one of six private value firms that supported Nielsen's transformation.[citation needed] During his profession, Calhoun was on the governing body of Caterpillar, Gates Corporation, and Medtronic.

Since 2009, Calhoun has filled in as a chief at Boeing, and was named lead free chief in 2018. In October 2019, he was named executive of Boeing in the wake of the Boeing 737 MAX groundings, and on December 23, 2019, he ventured down as director in anticipation of turning into Boeing's CEO and president, powerful January 13, 2020. In 2020, Boeing had a truly downright terrible, as the organization announced a $12 billion misfortune and laid off 30,000 specialists. Simultaneously, Calhoun procured $21.1 million in remuneration.

David C. Novak
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David Colin Novak (born 1953) is an American businessman. He is the executive chairman of YUM! Brands Inc.

Biography:

Background:

Novak received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and was a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He served as an account supervisor on Frito-Lay products (Doritos and Tostitos) for Tracy-Locke Advertising in Dallas, TX before becoming the VP of all F-L products at the agency. Novak is a Christian and has been a member of Southeast Christian church.

Career:

Novak served as Yum! Brand's chief executive officer (CEO) from 1999 - January 1, 2015. He served as Chief Operating Officer of Pepsi-Cola North America, and Executive Vice President of Marketing and National Sales for the Pepsi-Cola Company.

Novak is credited with the invention of Crystal Pepsi.

Novak has been an Independent Director of JPMorgan Chase & Co. since 2001. He also serves as a Director of Bank One Corporation. He was named 2012 Chief Executive of the Year by Chief Executive magazine.

In 2016, Novak launched OGO (O Great One!]) Enterprises, the "world's first recognition brand" on a mission to convince people of the usefulness of recognizing what others have done and close what he has dubbed the "global recognition deficit."

Publication:

Novak, David C. (2012), Taking People with You, Portfolio Hardcover, ISBN 1591844541
Novak, David C. (2016), O Great One! A Little Story About the Power of Recognition, Portfolio Hardcover, ISBN 0399562060

David de Rothschild
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He was born into wealth as part of the Rothschild banking family. He is the founder of Adventure Ecology, a company that helps to raise awareness on environmental and social problems. It also encourages people to practice initiative so that their dreams will come true.

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David Gill
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David Alan Gill (born 5 August 1957) is British football executive, formerly chief executive of Manchester United and a vice-chairman of The Football Association. He served as vice-chairman of the G-14 management committee until the G-14 was disbanded. He sits on the UEFA Executive Committee as of 2013. Gill was elected as a FIFA Vice-President sitting on the FIFA Council in 2015; rejecting this position in protest at Sepp Blatter until Blatter announced his resignation as FIFA President, following the 2015 FIFA corruption case.

Career:

Born and raised in Reading, Berkshire, Gill studied at the University of Birmingham (BCom Industrial, Economic and Business Studies, 1978), becoming a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in 1981. After a two-year spell in San Francisco, he left the firm in 1986 to join The BOC Group in its corporate finance department, and then Avis Rent a Car System in 1990. At Avis, he was responsible for the disposal of the European leasing business to GE Capital for US$1 billion in August 1992. Subsequently, he was finance director at Proudfoot PLC, the worldwide management consulting business, then quoted on the London Stock Exchange, and then at First Choice Holidays PLC, the third largest UK tour operator, before joining Manchester United F.C. in 1997.

Manchester United:

Gill joined Manchester United PLC in 1997 as finance director. In August 2000, he was promoted to deputy chief executive whilst retaining his responsibilities as finance director. In July 2001, Nick Humby was appointed finance director of Manchester United PLC, so Gill was promoted again this time to the title of Group Chief executive officer, allowing him to concentrate on managing the day-to-day operations of the business (including sponsorship & marketing, business development, financial services, conference & catering, ticketing & membership and group property).

In September 2003, after the departure of previous chief executive Peter Kenyon to Chelsea F.C., Gill was promoted to chief executive of Manchester United PLC. In 2005, he was appointed chief executive of the private limited company, Manchester United Ltd, that succeeded Manchester United PLC after the takeover by Malcolm Glazer.

Gill was also vice-chairman of the management committee of the now defunct G-14, an organisation of leading European football clubs. However, in September 2009, he was elected to a two-year place on the board of the European Club Association, the organisation created to replace the G-14.

On 20 February 2013, Manchester United announced that Gill would leave his post as chief executive in the summer of 2013, but that he would remain on the board as a director. He was replaced by the executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.

The Football Association:

On 2 June 2006, Gill was elected onto the board of The Football Association, replacing Arsenal F.C. vice-chairman David Dein. Gill said he was delighted to be working with the other board members of the Football Association. One of the first issues he had to deal with was the "club-vs.-country" row over Wayne Rooney's foot at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Questions were raised by Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez about a potential conflict of interest between Gill's roles with Manchester United and the FA. However, Gill dismissed the Spaniard's concerns, saying that he had been elected by the other Premier League chief executives. In October 2012, David was appointed vice-chairman of the Football Association, replacing Sir Dave Richards.

In June 2014, David Gill walked out of a FIFA meeting in Brazil in protest at FIFA President Sepp Blatter, after he had labelled the British media as "racist", following serious corruption revelations published in The Sunday Times newspaper regarding the World Cup bids for Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022.[7] Gill, along with a number of other European football executives, called for Blatter to resign and not to stand for a fifth term in 2015. Gill said Blatter's behavior was "totally unacceptable".

UEFA:

In May 2013, David Gill was elected to the UEFA Executive Committee at the 2013 UEFA Congress in London, where 53 member associations voted for candidates to fill eight seats.

FIFA:

In March 2015, Gill was elected as Britain's FIFA Vice-President, replacing Northern Ireland's Jim Boyce, sitting on the FIFA Council for a 4-year term.

Following the indictments in the United States of nine high-ranking FIFA officials and five corporate executives on charges including racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering in May 2015, Gill threatened to resign his newly elected FIFA role if Sepp Blatter was re-elected as FIFA President or did not stand down. Blatter won re-election for a fifth term, and Gill immediately rejected his role as a FIFA Vice-President and a member of the Executive Committee in protest at Blatter's regime. "I simply do not see how there will be change for the good of world football while Mr Blatter remains in post" Gill stated. On 2 June, four days after FIFA's 65th FIFA Congress, Blatter abruptly announced he would be resigning, allowing Gill to "reconsider" his position as he had not yet formalised his resignation.

David J. Lesar
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David John Lesar is an American businessman who is the Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services. Trained as a Certified Public Accountant, Lesar spent 16 years at Arthur Andersen. He had spent most of his career at Andersen, where he worked on their Halliburton account. In 1995, Lesar was hired by Halliburton as a new vice president.

Education:

Lesar was born in Madison, Wisconsin and is a 1978 graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business Administration degree.

Career:

As a Certified Public Accountant, Lesar spent 16 years working at Arthur Andersen.

In 1995, Lesar joined Halliburton. Within a year of his arrival, Lesar was appointed as CEO of KBR, in addition to his duties as CFO of Halliburton. In 1997, Lesar was appointed as the company's President and Chief operating officer. In 2000, Lesar became CEO of Halliburton.

He also serves on the board of directors at Lyondell Chemical, is a member of the Upstream Committee of the American Petroleum Institute and is on the board of directors of the American Iranian Council, an organization devoted to the normalization of American-Iranian relations.

Controversies:

The movie Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers claims that Lesar has been paid over $42,000,000 by Halliburton since the beginning of Iraq war, but this amount has risen significantly since the release of the film. According to the Wall Street Journal Lesar received about $14.9 million in 2010 alone, not including stock options or other deferred incentives - a 20% increase over his 2009 pay package, according to a securities filing.

In November 2014, Lesar faced criticism over his bid to take over Baker Hughes Inc : "the smaller oil-field services rival, in an email to Mr. Lesar, described Halliburton’s actions as intransigent and inappropriate".

David Karp
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Full Name           :             David Karp

Born                    :             6th - Jul - 1986

Zodiac Sign         :             Cancer

Birth Place          :             New York City, New York

Country               :             USA

Education            :             The Bronx High School of Science New York City, Calhoun School New York City

Occupation          :             Founder, CEO, Entrepreneur

Industry              :             Technology, Internet, Entertainment

Networth            :             $ 200 Million

Bloggers around the world would agree that Tumblr is the coolest blogging platform in the best that exist. But know about the man (or the boy?) who created it all and you’d say that the site isn’t quite as cool as the founder himself. Meet David Karp, the 28 year old founder of Tumblr. By the way, Karp found the site when he was a 20 year old kid, a time when most teenagers would still be struggling with their petty teenage issues. Sometime back, David sold Tumblr to Yahoo for a $1.1 billion and continues to act as a CEO of the company. For creating a beautiful blogging world with 225 million users all by himself at a very young age, David Karp was named the ‘Best young tech entrepreneur’ by Business Week and as one of the top 35 entrepreneurs of the world by MIT reviews.
Childhood:
David Karp was what you could call a regular New York city-bred kid. He was born to Michael Karp, the television composer and Barbara Ackerman, a high school teacher. He went to Calhoun school, the same school where his mother worked as a science teacher up until he was in eighth grade. By then, he was already designing websites for money. And this made him drop out from school, resorting to home-schooling just so that he could save time. He did plan on going to one of the league universities later in his life but some great opportunities came his way and changed his plans completely.
Career:
At the age of 14, Karp started interning at various software companies and a few years later, he was made the head of ‘UrbanBaby’, a parenting forum that he developed software for. A few months after that, he took off for Tokyo to get better at his skills and that, he did. Within a few years, he formed an independent consulting firm, Davidville. Marco Arment, an engineer and David, together formed Tumblr a few months after Davidville began as they thought that a tumble logging platform was what the world needed. And it looks like they were right about that, for barely two weeks later, Tumblr had 75,000 users registered with it.

Davidville then became Tumblr Inc which was acquired by Yahoo in 2013 and David was retained in the rolls. And that’s how young genius, David Karp became one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the world. David however, doesn’t like to talk about his age as he isn’t entirely secure about people knowing how young he is. He doesn’t want the story of Tumblr to be “all about his youth.” Honestly, the story of Tumblr in fact, is about the remarkable genius of a young boy that who dared to believe and achieve.