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.
Ronish Baxter is an entrepreneur from India who is also the CEO of Suncom Infotech. He hails from New Delhi, India and has been associated with this organization from November 2011 i.e more than 7 years. Prior to joining this company, he has been associated with some renowned cloud computing companies and has had a quite successful career in terms of both success and achievement.
Growing up in New Delhi, he completed his schooling from the Shri Ram School and was even the captain of his school cricket team. From a very young age, he showed interest towards entrepreneurship and was always a very bright boy as told by his teachers. He completed his business management studies from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's College of Business. After completing his studies, he left for India and started his entrepreneurial journey.
Since his present company Suncom Infotech Pvt. Ltd. is associated with IT Consulting, Managed IT & Security Services and Interactive Services for organizations in the enterprise and government sectors therefore he has to always be at par with the latest developments in the industry. Ronish Baxter feels that the industry has changed substantially over the years and the way it is advancing at this stage, there will be a time when India will be recognized as one of the global leaders in terms of technology innovation and new growth strategies.
When it comes to his family, Ronish Baxter has grown up in a very strict and disciplined environment since his father was a general in the Indian army. His mother was a teacher. Ronish Baxter gives credit to his success to such an upbringing which helped him to understand what’s really important in life and focus on the job at hand. He is presently married and has two daughters.
Ross Maxwell McEwan (born 16 July 1957) is a New Zealand banker, who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS), a FTSE 100 company since 1 October 2013, succeeding Stephen Hester.
Early life and education:
McEwan was educated at Hastings Boys' High School, Hastings, followed by Massey University, where he completed a degree in business studies and human resources, despite having failed an accountancy module twice.
Career:
McEwan's first top management position was as Chief Executive of Axa New Zealand from 1996 to 2002. He had spent the previous ten years at National Mutual New Zealand, 51% acquired by Axa in 1995. McEwan was then appointed CEO of First NZ Securities, the stockbroking arm of First NZ Capital Securities, the New Zealand affiliate of Credit Suisse Group.
In 2003 McEwan was hired as group executive for retail banking services for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). He had been expected to become the next CEO of CBA, but was passed over for the post in 2011.
McEwan joined RBS in August 2012 as head of retail banking. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer in October 2013. It was expected that he would move the bank away from investment banking and reduce its international exposure, to focus more on UK retail banking.
In February–March 2014, McEwan attracted press coverage for his view that "free banking" (no current account charges for customers in credit) would have to end sooner or later, and that this would in turn lead to greater transparency from the banks about how they funded their operations.
On 25 February 2015, RBS announced that McEwan would forgo a share award worth £1m saying that he did not want his pay package to "be a distraction from the task of building a great bank". He is still expected to be paid £2.7m despite turning down the award. The announcement came the day before the bank, which is 80% owned by the UK government, was due to release annual results widely expected to be disappointing following a series of fines by banking regulators for failures including for failing to stop manipulation of the foreign exchange market.
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.
Rajesh Gopinathan was born in 1971. He is the CEO and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a worldwide IT administrations, counseling and business arrangements association. Rajesh is probably the most youthful chief in the Tata Group. He was raised to the part of Chief Executive in February 2017 subsequent to filling in as the Chief Financial Officer since 2013.
Rajesh Gopinathan was born into the world in Thrissur, Kerala. He lived in Lucknow till his twelfth class and concentrated in St. Mary's Convent Inter College, RDSO branch. His dad used to work for the Research Design and Standards Organization (RDSO) wing of the Indian Railways. Rajesh graduated in 1994 with an Electrical and Electronics Engineering certificate from the Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (presently National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli).
In 1996, he got a post-graduate confirmation in Management (PGDM, equivalent to a MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He also won many awards. In 2021 - he win India's Best CEO in the classification of super huge organizations by Business Today (India). He joined the Tata Strategic Management Group in 1996, where he worked at numerous tasks with Tata organizations.
Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. was born in 8th October, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts. His dad Wilmot Reed Hastings was a lawyer for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon organization, and his mom Joan Amory Loomis was a Boston debutante from a Social Register family who was repelled by the universe of high society and encouraged her youngsters to scorn it. His maternal great grand dad was Alfred Lee Loomis. He is an American finance businessman. He is the fellow benefactor, administrator, and co (CEO) of Netflix, and sits on various sheets and non-benefit associations. A previous individual from the California State Board of Education, Hastings is a promoter for instruction change through contract schools.
Hastings lives in Santa Cruz, California. He is wedded to Patricia Ann Quillin, and he has two youngsters. Hastings went to Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and sold vacuum cleaners house to house in a hole year prior to entering school. He moved on from Bowdoin College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics, which he found "excellent and locks in". He showed up in a first page article in USA Today in 1995, presenting on his Porsche. He thinks about that youthful now and has said that on the off chance that he at any point shows up on the first page of USA Today again it will "not [be] on the hood of a Porsche, yet I would [pose] with a lot of motion pictures". Hastings sold his Porsche for a Toyota Avalon, however now drives a Tesla. In 2018, Hastings showed up in a podcast series by Linkedin prime supporter Reid Hoffman, Masters of Scale, and talked about the procedure received by Netflix to scale.
Hastings' first occupation job was at Adaptive Technology, where he made a device for troubleshooting software. He met Audrey MacLean in 1990 when she was CEO at Adaptive Corp. In 2007, Hastings said that "From her, I took in the worth of core interest. I learned it is smarter to do one item well than two items in a fair manner." Hastings left Adaptive Technology in 1991 to establish the foundation to his first organization, Pure Software, which created items to investigate programming. In 1996, Pure Software reported a consolidation with Atria Software. The consolidation coordinated Pure Software's projects for identifying bugs in programming with Atria's devices to oversee improvement of complex programming. In 1997, the joined organization, Pure Atria, was obtained by Rational Software, which set off a 42% drop in the two organizations' stocks after the arrangement was announced. Hastings was delegated Chief Technical Officer of the consolidated organizations. After Pure Software, Hastings went through two years considering how to stay away from comparative issues at his next startup. In 1997, Hastings and previous Pure Software representative Marc Randolph helped to establish Netflix, offering level rate film rental-via mail to clients in the US by joining two arising advancements; DVDs, which were a lot simpler to send as mail than VHS-tapes, and a site to arrange them from, rather than a paper index. Hastings said that when he founded Netflix, he had no idea whether customers would use the service.
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 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.