Since 2012, Tucker H. Marshall has been part of The J.M. Smucker Company. Also known as Smuckers, the publicly traded company manufactures food and beverage products and ranks as a Fortune 500 company with nearly $8 billion in annual sales…
John Murphy, 60, has spent nearly his entire professional career at The Coca-Cola Company. Since 2019, he’s served as CFO, overseeing mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, global strategy, tax, treasury, audit, accounting and controls, reporting and analysis, real estate, and risk management…
From unproven financial analyst to CFO of America’s largest publicly traded oil and gas company, Kathryn Mikells is part of the new wave of women in finance who are earning top leadership positions at their companies. In August 2021, Mikells entered the history books when she became the first woman to join ExxonMobil’s management committee…
“I bleed blue. It’s the people. It’s the technology. It’s the clients and all IBM has done,” Arvind Krishna said after stepping up into the CEO role for Big Blue in 2020. Krishna, who grew up in India and came to the U.S. to earn a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, is an IBM lifer…
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…
Martha Poulter, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Royal Caribbean since January 2018, has a lot on her plate. As the second largest cruise line operator in the world, Royal Caribbean yields annual revenues of $9.5 billion among its four brands: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Azamara Club Cruises, and Silversea Cruises…
Looking back, it’s easy to see how self-made billionaire Marc Benioff has become one of the most influential businessmen in the world. In 1999, Benioff co-founded a startup called Salesforce in his San Francisco apartment. Initially using a closet as the server room, the company became a pioneer in hosting software online, rather than following the traditional model of installing software in clients’ computer systems…
While Costco CEO W. Craig Jelinek has been with the warehouse chain since almost the beginning, his retail roots go even deeper. It started with his father. Jelinek was raised in the high-desert shadows of Edwards Air Force Base, where his father helped build B-70 bombers at the height of the cold war…
When Fabrizio Freda became CEO of the Estée Lauder luxury empire in 2009, he knew that it was going to be an uphill battle. In addition to being an outsider, Freda was taking the reins of an organization in troubled waters. After years of being run by family members, the beauty company had too many brands, too many people, and not enough cohesion…
Steve Ashley isn’t just the President and COO of Shop.com, he’s one of the main reasons why the business has become a global powerhouse among e-commerce sites. In fact, he has been helping to build the business ever since he was in the 8th grade. The year was 1992 and the company was called Market America, a marketing and product-brokerage company headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina…
