Richard Dana Fairbank (born 18 September 1950) is an American businessman who founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1988, and is its Chairman and CEO. He also serves on the board of directors of MasterCard International, and is the Chairman of MasterCard International's U.S. Region Board of Directors. He is a member of the Stanford Business School Advisory Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, and the board of directors of the BITS Technology Forum.
Fairbank has been awarded Washingtonian’s "Business Leader of the Year", Worth’s list of the top 10 CEOs and "50 Best CEOs", Future Banker’s list of "influential personalities in financial services", Credit Card Management’s "Entrepreneur of the Year"; and The Gartner Group’s "Excellence in Technology."
Education:
Fairbank received a bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University in 1972, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1981, where he graduated first in his class, as well as receiving the Excellence in Leadership award from the University in 2006.
Compensation:
While CEO of Capital One Financial in 2009, Richard D. Fairbank earned a total compensation of $6,076,805, which included no base salary, no cash bonus, $2,000,019 in stock awards, $4,000,001 in option awards, and $76,785 in other compensation. In 2012, Fairbank's total compensation was $22.6 million. Fairbank has received a base salary of zero dollars since 1997.
Born : May 2, 1955 (age 61), Galveston, Texas
Alma mater : University of Houston–Clear Lake, (B.A.)
: South Texas College of Law, (J.D.)
Occupation : Chief Executive Officer of Delta Air Lines
Salary : US$725,000[1]
Spouse(s) : Sue Anderson
Children : Katy and Rick
Richard H. Anderson (born 1955) is an American businessman and is the former Chief Executive Officer of Delta Air Lines, serving his position from September 1, 2007 until May 2, 2016. Delta operates an extensive domestic and international network serving over 330 destinations in over 60 countries on six continents.
Prior to his role as Chief Executive of Delta, Anderson has served in previous executive positions as CEO of Northwest Airlines from 2001 to 2004, which would later merge with Delta and Executive Vice President of United Healthcare from 2004-2007.
On February 3, 2016, Delta Air Lines announced Anderson would retire as CEO effective May 2, 2016 and assume position as Executive Chairman of the Delta Air Lines board of directors.
Richard "Rich" Lesser (born 1963) is an American business personality currently serving as the President and CEO of American global management consultancy the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He attended the University of Michigan, where he graduated with highest honors (summa cum laude) with a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and then Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar.
Career:
Lesser started his career as a process development engineer and group leader at Procter & Gamble after graduating from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1983. Following this, he attended Harvard Business School where he was named a Baker Scholar.
In 1988, Lesser joined BCG as a consultant, and his client work focused on innovation, strategy, and large-scale transformation in the health care and consumer sectors. He was elected to partner in less than 10 years and served as the head of the firm's New York Metro offices from 2000 to 2009. In this period, the New York office became the firm's largest in the country, based on revenue and headcount. He was elected to the firm's Executive Committee in 2006.
He has been active in efforts to redirect corporate and business unit strategy, streamline organizations, improve productivity, and ensure successful post-merger integration. He played a pivotal role in helping BCG become the only global management consulting firm to grow strongly through the 2008 recession.
In 2009, Lesser was named BCG's Chairman for North and South America. In the same year, Consulting Magazine named him one of the industry's Top 25 most influential consultants for excellence in Healthcare. He spoke at the World Economic Forum and The New York Forum, and wrote articles in prominent the Harvard Business Review and BCG Perspectives.
In May 2012, he was named the successor of Hans-Paul Bürkner as the Global Chief Executive Officer and President of The Boston Consulting Group when Bürkner stepped down in January 2013. Since Lesser started in January 2013, the firm has opened a new office in Bogotá, Colombia, as a part of the firm's focus on developing economies. Recently, he spoke at the 2013 World Economic Forum regarding issues relating to Asia, South America, and Africa among others.
Ritesh Agarwal was born into the world in Bissam Cuttack town of Odisha state, India and raised in Titilagarh. He is an Indian business visionary and the Founder and CEO of OYO Rooms. He is known as the world's second most youthful billionaire in 2021. Be that as it may, Forbes or Business Insider have not recorded him as a Dollar Billionaire yet. Agarwal is likewise a beneficiary of the Business World Young Entrepreneur Award.
Ritesh comes from a family that used to run a little shop in Southern Orissa. At the age of 13, he start selling SIM cards. He moved on from St. Johns Senior Secondary School and moved to Delhi in 2011 for college. He exited school, and was chosen for the Thiel Fellowship in 2013. As of February 2020, he is simply the second most youthful self-made billionaire on the planet after Kylie Jenner. Agarwal start a budgut convenience entrance, Oravel Stays, for booking financial plan hotels. It was acknowledged into the accelerator program by Venture Nursery in September 2012, and later was one of the champs of the 2013 Thiel Fellowship program, getting an award of $100,000. The organization was launched as OYO Rooms in May 2013.
By September 2018, the organization brought $1 billion. Up in July 2019 it was accounted for that Agarwal bought $2 billion in shares in the organization, significantly increasing his stake. His total assets in 2020 was assessed to be roughly $1.1 billion (₹7253 crore) as per Hurun Rich List 2020. He is recorded in the Forbes 30 under 30 rundown list for Asia.
Robert Montague Noel (born 12 June 1964) is a British businessman, the chief executive (CEO) of Land Securities, the largest commercial property company in the UK.
Early life:
He is the eldest son of Henry Methuen Noel Noel (1927–1998), an Army officer and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, and Helen Elizabeth Anne Hutchinson. Noel was educated at Marlborough College. He went on to study at Reading University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1986. is a qualified chartered surveyor.
Career:
On 31 March 2012, Francis Salway was succeeded as chief executive of Land Securities by Noel. Noel had been managing director of the company's London properties, having joined Land Securities in January 2010 from Great Portland Estates plc, where he had been property director since 2002.
Noel has had other roles as chairman of the Westminster Property Association, a Director of The New West End Company and a trustee and director of the charity LandAid.
Personal life:
Noel and his French wife Sophie have a son and two daughters, and own homes in London and Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. Noel has a tattoo on his bottom (believed to be a swallow), obtained in Thailand in his youth
Robert Thomson was born into the world in 11th March 1961 in Torrumbarry, Victoria. He is an Australian writer. Since January 2013 he has been CEO of News Corp.
Thomson was learned at Christian Brothers College in St Kilda East, and at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. One of his progenitors was named Arturo Dell'Oro, and came from Domodossola, in northern Italy. He is hitched to Wang Ping, the girl of a general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Thomson began fill in as a copyboy at The Herald (presently the Herald Sun) in Melbourne in 1979. In 1983, he became senior component essayist for The Sydney Morning Herald, and after two years became Beijing reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald just as the Financial Times. Thomson then, at that point turned into a Tokyo journalist for the Financial Times in 1989. Thomson was selected the Financial Times unfamiliar news manager in 1994 and in 1996 became supervisor of the Financial Times weekend release. While at Sydney Morning Herald, Thomson composed a series on Australian appointed authorities, which was distributed as a book in 1987, The Judges: A Portrait of an Australian Judiciary. In 1998, Thomson became U.S. overseeing editorial manager of the Financial Times. In May 2008, he was delegated overseeing proofreader of The Wall Street Journal, having recently been the manager of The Times. He got a privileged doctorate from RMIT University in 2010. In January 2013, Thomson turned into the CEO of News Corp.
He is one of the richest entrepreneurs who made their wealth in the Internet. He is the owner of Baidu, the largest search engine in China and the third largest in the world. The technology behind Baidu is an algorithm developed by Li that allows for site scoring and ranking
Robin Li Yanhong was born in 17th November 1968 in Yangquan, Shanxi Province, where he spent through the majority of his youth. He is a Chinese programmer and extremely rich person web business visionary. He is the CEO of the web search tool Baidu. He additionally created RankDex, the primary web internet searcher with page-positioning and webpage scoring calculations. Probably the most extravagant individual in China, he has a total assets of US$14.7 billion as of April 2021. Li contemplated data the board at Peking University and software engineering at the University at Buffalo. In 1996, he made RankDex, the principal web index with page-positioning and webpage scoring calculations. In 2000, he established Baidu with Eric Xu. Li has been CEO of Baidu since January 2004. The organization was recorded on NASDAQ on August 5, 2005. Li was incorporated as one of the 15 Asian Scientists To Watch by Asian Scientist Magazine on 15 May 2011. In August 2014, Li was named by the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, as co-seat of the Independent Expert Advisory Group on Data Revolution for Sustainable Development. Li is an individual from the twelfth Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Robin Li's folks were assembly line laborers. Li was the fourth of five kids, and the lone kid. He procured a four year college education in data the board from Peking University. In the fall 1991, Li went to the University at Buffalo in the US to read for a doctorate in software engineering. He accepted his graduate degree in 1994, subsequent to choosing not to proceed with the PhD. Li is hitched to Dongmin Ma, who likewise works for Baidu. They have four youngsters and live in Beijing, China
In 1994, Li joined IDD Information Services, a New Jersey division of Dow Jones and Company, where he fostered a product program for the online version of The Wall Street Journal. He additionally dealt with further developing calculations for web search tools. He stayed at IDD Information Services from May 1994 to June 1997. In 1996, while at IDD, Li made the Rankdex site-scoring calculation for web search tool page positioning, which was granted a U.S. patent. It was the principal web search tool that pre-owned hyperlinks to quantify the nature of sites it was ordering, originating before the very much like calculation patent recorded by Google two years after the fact in 1998. Google organizer Larry Page referred to Li's work in a portion of his U.S. licenses for PageRank. Li later utilized his Rankdex innovation for the Baidu web crawler. Li filled in as a staff engineer for Infoseek, a pioneer web index organization, from July 1997 to December 1999. An accomplishment of his was the image search work utilized by Go.com. Since establishing Baidu in January 2000, Li has transformed the organization into the biggest Chinese web search tool, with more than 80% portion of the overall industry via search question, and the second biggest free internet searcher on the planet. On 5 August 2005, Baidu effectively finished its IPO on NASDAQ, and in 2007 turned into the primary Chinese organization to be remembered for the NASDAQ-100 Index. He showed up in CNN Money's yearly rundown of "50 individuals who matter now" in 2007. In 2001, he was named one of the "Chinese Top Ten Innovative Pioneers". In 2002 and 2003, he was named one of the "IT Ten Famous Persons". In April 2004, he was named in the second meeting of "Chinese Software Ten Outstanding Young Persons". In August 2005, he was named in the twelfth meeting of the "ASEAN Youth Award". In December 2005, he was named one of the "CCTV 2005 Chinese Economic Figures of The Year". In December 2006 he was named 2006's "Reality's Best Business Leader" by the American Business Weekly.
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.