Few executives have more expertise managing large-scale, cutting edge technology systems than seasoned veteran Mazen Rawashdeh. He currently serves as the CTO of eBay, the e-commerce giant worth more than $21 billion. Rawashdeh’s career includes nearly 30 years of experience in the tech industry working for a broad range of companies…
The son of a shoe store owner, Larry Fink rose to become one of the most prominent financial figures in the world. Fink is best known for his roles as Chairman and CEO of BlackRock. In the years since Fink cofounded the company in 1988, he has built one of the world’s most powerful asset-management houses, with more than $10 trillion under management…
As Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO,) Jim Andrew’s corporate title may not be a household name, but the company he works for certainly is. Since 2016, he’s worked for PepsiCo, one of the most recognizable brands in the world. Named after its flagship product, Pepsi Cola, the company is the second-largest food and beverage business…
Charles Butt is one of the most widely respected grocery leaders in the U.S. The long-serving Chairman and CEO of the 115-year-old family-owned grocery store chain H-E-B, he started on the bottom and worked his way up. In the 1940s, at age 8, he began by bagging groceries at one of his family’s stores…
If Ruth Porat has a magic power, it’s charting paths through uncertain territory. When she joined Google as its CFO in March 2015, she was already one of the most Continue Reading
Facebook’s road to riches was paved by people like Mike Schroepfer. By the time he joined the company in the middle of 2008, Schroepfer was already a well-respected technical architect and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Armed with a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford, he began his career working at various startups in the Palo Alto area…
The story of Dara Khosrowshahi is the stuff of Hollywood scripts. Surrounded by wealth, Iranian-born Khosrowshahi grew up in a mansion, his family having founded the conglomerate Alborz Investment Company. But due to the turmoil and threat of violence caused by the Iranian Revolution, Khosrowshahi was 9 when he emigrated to the U.S., while the family business was later nationalized…
In a conversation about well-rounded executives in today’s business world, it would be hard not to mention Chris Nicholas. The Chief Operating Officer of Walmart U.S., Nicholas has more than 20 years of international and domestic experience in retail. Among his various accomplishments, he boasts a proven track record leading teams through business transformation initiatives…
Few people have more experience as an executive in the payments industry than Visa CEO Alfred F. Kelly Jr. Beginning his career in the early 1980s, Kelly had decades’ worth of experience and success when he joined Visa in 2014 as an independent director. Two years later, he was named CEO for the financial services provider – and in 2019, he was elected Chairman of the Board…
In 2017, Chipotle was looking for ways to improve customer experience at its restaurants – and thus drive revenues – when it found its answer: Scott Boatwright. A senior executive with a ton of industry experience, Boatwright was brought on board as Chipotle’s Chief Restaurant Officer (CRO,) making him the first person to ever serve in such a position during the restaurant chain’s 24 years of existence…
