Rodger O. Riney (born 1946) is the CEO and founder of Scottrade, an online discount brokerage firm headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
Early life:
Riney was born in 1946 and was introduced to the stock market by his grandparents after giving him 10 shares of a stock. He attended college in the 1960s and worked in the financial services industry. He interned at Edward D. Jones & Company.
Riney earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Missouri. He and his wife, Paula, are members of Kirkwood Baptist Church in St. Louis County, Missouri.
Scottrade:
After the deregulation of the brokerage industry in 1975, Rodger saw an opportunity to provide lower commission trades. In 1980, he founded Scottrade in Scottsdale, Arizona under the name of Scottsdale Securities.
In 1982, Scottrade branched out from Scottsdale, Arizona, promoting discounted commissions for trades placed by telephone. Riney introduced internet trading in the 1990s. Scottrade has over 500 branch offices nationwide and offers managed services for clients who are seeking fee based advice. The company offers a full range of banking services to retail clients and makes commercial loans to small business.
Riney's management methods are described as conservative. He stated his intention to maintain private ownership and is against merging. In 2013 Scottrade was cited as 53rd in the top 100 companies to work for.
He is the owner of Millhouse LLC. He started out by stealing fuel intended for the Russian Army. He then made different investments, from doll making to providing bodyguard services. He is also the owner of the London-based football club called Chelsea. He is one of the richest men in Russia.
He is the owner of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. He has investments in different industries and fields, from cigar, makeup, cars, photography, camping, security, lottery, banks and even comic books. He is also one of the largest donors to charity every year.
Rosalind Brewer was born into the world in 1962 in Detroit, Michigan. Brewer grew up as the most youthful of five kids and they were the original in her family to go to school. Because of her tendency for math and science, Brewer was keen on seeking after a profession as a doctor. He is an American money manager filling in as the CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance. With her arrangement at Walgreens in March 2021, she is the lone African American lady to be CEO of a Fortune 500 organization. Brewer is the primary African American lady to become: CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, bunch president and COO of Starbucks, and CEO of Sam's Club. She has likewise stood firm on different authority footings at Walmart and Kimberly-Clark. USA Today alluded to her as "one of corporate America's most unmistakable ladies and dark female leaders." Brewer has been noticed a "Exceptionally Powerful Woman" by both Forbes and Fortune magazines.
In 1980, after moving on from Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan, Brewer enlisted at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia where she finished her four year certification in chemistry.[5][6] After finishing her undergrad contemplates, she chose not to seek after a vocation in medication and started working at Kimberly-Clark as an exploration professional. Brewer is likewise an alum of the Director's College at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business/Stanford Law School and the Advanced Management Program from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Brewer is hitched to John Brewer, and they have two kids.
Brewer has stood firm on leader footholds at Kimberly-Clark, Walmart, Sam's Club, Starbucks, and Walgreens Boots Alliance. Furthermore, Brewer was made the lone African American individual from the top managerial staff at Amazon in 2019. She additionally filled in as a part on the Board of Directors at Lockheed Martin and Molson Coors Brewing Company. Brewer keeps on filling in as a part on the Board of Trustees for Westminister School, the Board of Councilors for the Carter Presidential Center, and fills in as the Board of Trustees Chair at Spelman College. On 15 March 2021, Rosalind Brewer was designated as the CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance. Brewer turned into the solitary current African American lady to lead a Fortune 500 organization. In 2020, Fortune positioned Brewer the 27th Most Powerful Woman in the World and Forbes positioned her 48th in their Worlds 100 Most Powerful Woman. On 15 September 2015, Fortune remembered Brewer for its Most Powerful Woman rankings. Working Mother named her quite possibly the Most Powerful Working Moms of 2013. In 2017, Brewer got the Spelman College Legacy of Leadership grant. Brewer was chosen for the debut 2021 Forbes 50 Over 50 rundown of business people, pioneers, researchers and makers who are beyond 50 years old. Soon after turning into the COO and Group President of Starbucks, the organization was met with cross country fights and negative exposure in view of the capture of two people of color at a Philadelphia store area. Accordingly, Brewer and her group executed arrangement changes and founded racial inclination preparing for workers in 8,000 stores.
Keith Rupert Murdoch (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American media proprietor. His father, Keith Arthur Murdoch, had been a reporter and editor and a senior executive of the Herald and Weekly Times newspaper publishing company covering all Australian states except New South Wales. After his father's death in 1952 Keith Rupert Murdoch declined to join his late father's registered public company and created his own private company, News Limited. Murdoch thus had full control as Chairman and CEO of Global Media Holding Company News Corporation, now the world's second-largest media conglomerate, and its successors, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, after the conglomerate split on 28 June 2013.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Murdoch acquired a number of newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World, followed closely by The Sun. Murdoch moved to New York City in 1974, to expand into the U.S. market; however, he retained interests in Australia and Britain. In 1981, Murdoch bought The Times, his first British broadsheet, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1985 to satisfy the legal requirement for U.S. television ownership.
In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, Murdoch consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. Murdoch's News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989), and The Wall Street Journal (2007). Murdoch formed the British broadcaster BSkyB in 1990, and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000, Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries, with a net worth of over $5 billion.
In July 2011, Murdoch faced allegations that his companies, including the News of the World, owned by News Corporation, had been regularly hacking the phones of celebrities, royalty, and public citizens. Murdoch faces police and government investigations into bribery and corruption by the British government and FBI investigations in the U.S. On 21 July 2012, Murdoch resigned as a director of News International. On 1 July 2015, Murdoch left his post as CEO of 21st Century Fox. Murdoch and his family own both 21st Century Fox and News Corp through the Murdoch Family Trust.
Early life:
Murdoch was born Keith Rupert Murdoch on 11 March 1931 in Melbourne, Australia to Sir Keith Murdoch (1885–1952) and Elisabeth Joy Greene (later Dame Elisabeth Murdoch) (1909–2012), daughter of Rupert Greene. He is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Murdoch's parents were also born in Melbourne. Keith Murdoch was a war correspondent and later a regional newspaper magnate owning two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town. Later in life, Keith Rupert chose to use Rupert, the first name of his maternal grandfather.
Keith Murdoch the elder asked to meet with his future wife after seeing her debutante photograph in one of his own newspapers and they married in 1928, when she was aged 19 and he was 23 years older. In addition to Rupert, the couple had three daughters: Janet Calvert-Jones, Anne Kantor and Helen Handbury (1929–2004). Murdoch attended Geelong Grammar School, where he was co-editor of the school's official journal The Corian and editor of the student journal If Revived.He took his school's cricket team to the National Junior Finals. He worked part-time at the Melbourne Herald and was groomed by his father to take over the family business. Murdoch read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Worcester College, Oxford in England, where he supported the Labour Party, stood for Secretary of the Labour Club and managed Oxford Student Publications Limited, the publishing house of Cherwell. After her husband's death from cancer in 1952, Elisabeth Murdoch did charity work, as life governor of the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne and established the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. At the age of 102 (in 2011), she had 74 descendants. Murdoch completed an MA before working as a sub-editor with the Daily Express for two years.