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International Directory of
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PREFACE PAGE vii–viii
LIST OF ADVISERS ix
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS xi
LIST OF ENTRANTS xiii–xxii
ENTRIES
VOLUME 1: A-E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–466
VOLUME 2: F-L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–505
VOLUME 3: M-R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–457
VOLUME 4: S-Z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–403

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 405–410
NATIONALITY INDEX 411–417
GEOGRAPHIC INDEX 419–425
COMPANY AND INDUSTRY INDEX 427–447
NAME INDEX 449–465
Contents
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Welcome to the International Directory of Business Biogra-
phies (IDBB). This four-volume set covers more than 600
prominent business people from around the world and is in-
tended for reference use by management students, librarians,
educators, historians, and others who seek information about
the people leading the world’s biggest and most influential
companies. The articles, all of which include bylines, were
written by a team of journalists, academics, librarians, and in-
dependent scholars. (See Notes on Contributors.) Approxi-
mately 60 percent of the entrants are American, while 40
percent are from other countries. Articles were compiled from
material supplied by companies for whom the entrants work,
general and academic periodicals, books, and annual reports.
With its up-to-date profiles of important figures from the
world of international business, IDBB complements the pop-
ular St. James Press series International Directory of Company
Histories (IDCH), which provides entries on the world’s
largest and most influential companies. Leaders of many of
the companies covered in IDCH are profiled in IDBB.
INCLUSION CRITERIA
The list of entrants in IDBB was developed by the editors

in consultation with the academics and librarians serving on
IDBB ’s advisory board. (See List of Advisers.) The majority
of people profiled here are current or recent chief executives
of large, publicly traded companies such as those found on
the Fortune 500 and Global 500 lists of companies compiled
by Fortune magazine. Among this group are familiar names
such as H. Lee Scott Jr. of Wal-Mart, Carly Fiorina of
Hewlett-Packard, John Browne of BP, and Nobuyuki Idei of
Sony. Retired or former executives like GE’s Jack Welch and
Vivendi Universal’s Jean-Marie Messier also make the list, as
do a few deceased individuals who were active in the past few
years, including Jim Cantalupo of McDonald’s and Chung
Ju-yung of Hyundai.
In addition, we have included other high-profile individu-
als whose companies are privately held or are not large enough
to make the Fortune lists but whose influence makes them
valuable candidates for study, such as Kase L. Lawal of
CAMAC Holdings, Oprah Winfrey of Harpo Productions,
and Terence Conran of Conran Holdings. We also mix in up-
and-coming executives who may not currently be chief execu-
tives but who are rapidly gaining prominence in the business
world; among this group are Indra K. Nooyi of PepsiCo and
Lachlan and James Murdoch of News Corporation. For these
latter categories, we have attempted to highlight female and
minority executives who, even in the early twenty-first centu-
ry, continue to be underrepresented in the upper echelons of
the corporate world.
Readers should note that our aim was to produce bal-
anced, objective profiles of influential executives, and individ-
uals were not disqualified if they or their companies were

enmeshed in scandal. Thus, the set includes articles about ex-
ecutives such as Ken Lay of Enron, Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco
International, and Martha Stewart of Martha Stewart Living
Omnimedia, all of whom were indicted on criminal charges
in the early 2000s.
ARRANGEMENT OF SET AND ENTRY FORMAT
The four-volume set is arranged alphabetically by sur-
name. An alphabetical list of subjects is included in the front-
matter. Within each entry, readers will find the following
sections:
Fact Box: This section provides details about the subject’s birth
and death dates, birth and death locations, family informa-
tion, educational background, work history, major awards,
and publications. For entrants affiliated with a specific com-
pany at the time of publication, the Fact Box also includes the
company address and URL address, except in cases where the
subject is no longer affiliated with a company.
Main Text: This section provides a narrative overview of the sub-
ject’s life, career trajectory, and influence. The text includes
subheadings to assist the reader in navigating the key periods
in the subject’s life.
Sources for Further Information: This section lists books, arti-
cles, and Web sites containing more information about the
subject. Also included here are sources from which quotations
are drawn in the main text.
See also: At the end of most articles is a cross-reference to appli-
cable company profiles in the International Directory of Com-
pany Histories.
Preface
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INDEXES
IDBB includes four indexes. The Nationality Index lists
entrants according to their country of birth, country of citi-
zenship (if different from country of birth), and country of
long-term residence. The Geographic Index lists entrants ac-
cording to the country of the headquarters of operation or the
country where the subject works (if different from country of
the headquarters); the index lists entrants according to their
employer at the time of publication as well as significant pre-
vious companies where they were employed. The Company
and Industry Index lists entrants according to their current
and former companies of employment as well the industries
in which those companies operate; in this latter index, indus-
tries are listed in small caps, while companies are listed in ro-
man font with upper- and lowercase letters. The Name Index
lists all entrants as well as other significant individuals dis-
cussed in the text.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Numerous individuals deserve gratitude for their assistance
with this project. I am indebted to everyone at St. James Press
and Thomson Gale who assisted with the production, partic-
ularly Margaret Mazurkiewicz, who provided crucial help at
all stages of production; I also thank Chris Nasso, Peter Gar-
effa, and Bridget Travers for their support. At Schlager Group,
Marcia Merryman Means elucidated style matters and coordi-
nated the copyediting and fact-checking process, while Jayne
Weisblatt and Vanessa Torrado-Caputo provided valuable edi-
torial assistance.

Neil Schlager
SUGGESTIONS WELCOME
Comments and suggestions from users of IDBB on any as-
pect of the product are cordially invited. Suggestions for addi-
tional business people to include in future new editions or
supplements are also welcomed. Please write:
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Vincenzo Baglieri, PhD
Director, Technology Management Department
Bocconi School of Management
Bocconi University
Milan, Italy
Lyda Bigelow, PhD
Assistant Professor of Organization and Strategy
Olin School of Business
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
Diane Davenport, MLS
Reference Manager
Berkeley Public Library
Berkeley, California
Karl Moore, PhD
Associate Professor

Faculty of Management
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Mohammad K. Najdawi, PhD
Senior Associate Dean and Professor
Department of Decision and Information Technologies
College of Commerce and Finance
Villanova University
Villanova, Pennsylvania
Judith M. Nixon, MLS
Management and Economics Librarian
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
Advisers
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Elisa Addlesperger
Barry Alfonso
Margaret Alic
Don Amerman
William Arthur Atkins
Kirk H. Beetz
Patricia C. Behnke
Mark Best
Alan Bjerga
Jeanette Bogren
Thomas Borjas
Carol Brennan
Jack J. Cardoso

C. A. Chien
Peter Collins
Stephen Collins
Matthew Cordon
Peggy Daniels
Amanda de la Garza
Ed Dinger
Catherine Donaldson
Jim Fike
Virginia Finsterwald
Tiffeni Fontno
Katrina Ford
Erik Donald France
Lisa Frick
Margaret E. Gillio
Larry Gilman
Meg Greene
Paul Greenland
Barbara Gunvaldsen
Timothy L. Halpern
Lauri Harding
Lucy Heckman
Ashyia N. Henderson
Eve M. B. Hermann
John Herrick
Jeremy W. Hubbell
Dawn Jacob Laney
Michelle Johnson
Jean Kieling
Barbara Koch

Deborah Kondek
Alison Lake
Sandra Larkin
Josh Lauer
Anne Lesser
David Lewis
Jennifer Long
DeAnne Luck
Susan Ludwig
David Marc
William F. Martin
Beth Maser
Doris Morris Maxfield
Ann McCarthy
Patricia McKenna
Lee McQueen
Jill Meister
Carole Sayegh Moussalli
Miriam C. Nagel
Catherine Naghdi
Caryn E. Neumann
John M. Owen
Carol Pech
David Petechuk
Anastasis Petrou
A. Petruso
Luca Prono
Trudy Ring
Nelson Rhodes
Celia Ross

Joseph C. Santora
Lorraine Savage
M. W. Scott
Cathy Seckman
Kenneth R. Shepherd
Stephanie Dionne Sherk
Hartley Spatt
Janet P. Stamatel
Kris Swank
François Therin
Marie L. Thompson
Mary Tradii
Scott Trudell
David Tulloch
Michael Vandyke
Maike van Wijk
Stephanie Watson
Valerie Webster
S. E. Weigant
Kelly Wittmann
Lisa Wolff
Timothy Wowk
Ronald Young
Barry Youngerman
Candy Zulkosky
Contributors
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A

F. Duane Ackerman
Josef Ackermann
Shai Agassi
Umberto Agnelli
Ahn Cheol-soo
Naoyuki Akikusa
Raúl Alarcón Jr.
William F. Aldinger III
Vagit Y. Alekperov
César Alierta Izuel
Herbert M. Allison Jr.
John A. Allison IV
Dan Amos
Brad Anderson
Richard H. Anderson
G. Allen Andreas Jr.
Micky Arison
C. Michael Armstrong
Bernard Arnault
Gerard J. Arpey
Ramani Ayer
B
Michael J. Bailey
Sergio Balbinot
Steve Ballmer
Jill Barad
Don H. Barden
Ned Barnholt
Colleen Barrett
Craig R. Barrett

Matthew William Barrett
John M. Barth
Glen A. Barton
Richard Barton
J. T. Battenberg III
Claude Bébéar
Pierre-Olivier Beckers
Jean-Louis Beffa
Alain Belda
Charles Bell
Luciano Benetton
Robert H. Benmosche
Silvio Berlusconi
Betsy Bernard
Daniel Bernard
David W. Bernauer
Wulf H. Bernotat
Gordon M. Bethune
J. Robert Beyster
Jeff Bezos
Pierre Bilger
Alwaleed Bin Talal
Dave Bing
Carole Black
Cathleen Black
Jonathan Bloomer
Alan L. Boeckmann
Daniel Bouton
List of Entrants
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Martin Bouygues
Jack O. Bovender Jr.
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
Richard Branson
Edward D. Breen
Thierry Breton
Ulrich Brixner
John Browne
Wayne Brunetti
John E. Bryson
Warren E. Buffett
Steven A. Burd
H. Peter Burg
Antony Burgmans
James Burke
Ursula Burns
C
Louis C. Camilleri
Lewis B. Campbell
Philippe Camus
Michael R. Cannon
Jim Cantalupo
Thomas E. Capps
Daniel A. Carp
Peter Cartwright
Steve Case
Cássio Casseb Lima
Robert B. Catell

William Cavanaugh III
Charles M. Cawley
Clarence P. Cazalot Jr.
Nicholas D. Chabraja
John T. Chambers
J. Harold Chandler
Morris Chang
Chen Tonghai
Kenneth I. Chenault
Fujio Cho
Chung Ju-yung
Carla Cico
Philippe Citerne
Jim Clark
Vance D. Coffman
Douglas R. Conant
Phil Condit
Terence Conran
John W. Conway
John R. Coomber
Roger Corbett
Alston D. Correll
Alfonso Cortina de Alcocer
David M. Cote
Robert Crandall
Mac Crawford
Carlos Criado-Perez
James R. Crosby
Adam Crozier
Alexander M. Cutler

Márcio A. Cypriano
D
David F. D’Alessandro
Eric Daniels
George David
Richard K. Davidson
Julian C. Day
Henri de Castries
Michael S. Dell
Guerrino De Luca
Hebert Demel
Roger Deromedi
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Thierry Desmarest
Michael Diekmann
William Dillard II
Barry Diller
John T. Dillon
Jamie Dimon
Peter R. Dolan
Guy Dollé
Tim M. Donahue
David W. Dorman
Jürgen Dormann
E. Linn Draper Jr.
John G. Drosdick
José Dutra
E

Tony Earley Jr.
Robert A. Eckert
Rolf Eckrodt
Michael Eisner
John Elkann
Larry Ellison
Thomas J. Engibous
Gregg L. Engles
Ted English
Roger Enrico
Charlie Ergen
Michael L. Eskew
Matthew J. Espe
Robert A. Essner
John H. Eyler Jr.
F
Richard D. Fairbank
Thomas J. Falk
David N. Farr
Jim Farrell
Franz Fehrenbach
Pierre Féraud
E. James Ferland
Dominique Ferrero
Trevor Fetter
John Finnegan
Carly Fiorina
Paul Fireman
Jay S. Fishman
Niall FitzGerald

Dennis J. FitzSimons
Olav Fjell
John E. Fletcher
William P. Foley II
Jean-Martin Folz
Scott T. Ford
William Clay Ford Jr.
Gary D. Forsee
Kent B. Foster
Charlie Fote
Jean-René Fourtou
H. Allen Franklin
Tom Freston
Takeo Fukui
Richard S. Fuld Jr.
S. Marce Fuller
Masaaki Furukawa
G
Joseph Galli Jr.
Louis Gallois
Christopher B. Galvin
Roy A. Gardner
Jean-Pierre Garnier
Bill Gates
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David Geffen
Jay M. Gellert
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

John E. Gherty
Carlos Ghosn
Charles K. Gifford
Raymond V. Gilmartin
Larry C. Glasscock
Robert D. Glynn Jr.
Francisco González Rodríguez
David R. Goode
Jim Goodnight
Fred A. Goodwin
Chip W. Goodyear
Andrew Gould
William C. Greehey
Stephen K. Green
Hank Greenberg
Jeffrey W. Greenberg
Robert Greenberg
J. Barry Griswell
Rijkman W. J. Groenink
Andy Grove
Oswald J. Grübel
Jerry A. Grundhofer
Rajiv L. Gupta
Carlos M. Gutierrez
H
Robert Haas
David D. Halbert
Hiroshi Hamada
Toru Hambayashi
Jürgen Hambrecht

John H. Hammergren
H. Edward Hanway
George J. Harad
William B. Harrison Jr.
Richard Harvey
William Haseltine
Andy Haste
Lewis Hay III
William F. Hecht
Bert Heemskerk
Rainer Hertrich
John B. Hess
Laurence E. Hirsch
Betsy Holden
Chad Holliday
Katsuhiko Honda
Van B. Honeycutt
Kazutomo Robert Hori
Janice Bryant Howroyd
Ancle Hsu
Günther Hülse
L. Phillip Humann
Franz Humer
I
Nobuyuki Idei
Robert Iger
Jeffrey R. Immelt
Ray R. Irani
J
Michael J. Jackson

Tony James
Charles H. Jenkins Jr.
David Ji
Jiang Jianqing
Steve Jobs
Jeffrey A. Joerres
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Leif Johansson
Abby Johnson
John D. Johnson
John H. Johnson
Robert L. Johnson
William R. Johnson
Lawrence R. Johnston
Jeff Jordan
Michael H. Jordan
Abdallah Jum’ah
Andrea Jung
William G. Jurgensen
K
Eugene S. Kahn
Akinobu Kanasugi
Isao Kaneko
Ryotaro Kaneko
Mel Karmazin
Karen Katen
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jim Kavanaugh

Robert Keegan
Herb Kelleher
Edmund F. Kelly
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Naina Lal Kidwai
Kerry K. Killinger
James M. Kilts
Eric Kim
Kim Jung-tae
Ewald Kist
Gerard J. Kleisterlee
Lowry F. Kline
Philip H. Knight
Charles Koch
Richard Jay Kogan
John Koo
Timothy Koogle
Hans-Joachim Körber
Richard M. Kovacevich
Dennis Kozlowski
Sallie Krawcheck
Ronald L. Kuehn Jr.
Ken Kutaragi
L
Alan J. Lacy
A. G. Lafley
Igor Landau
Robert W. Lane
Sherry Lansing
Jean Laurent

Kase L. Lawal
Bob Lawes
Ken Lay
Shelly Lazarus
Terry Leahy
Lee Yong-kyung
David J. Lesar
R. Steve Letbetter
Gerald Levin
Arthur Levinson
Kenneth D. Lewis
Victor Li
Li Ka-shing
Alfred C. Liggins III
Liu Chuanzhi
J. Bruce Llewellyn
Lu Weiding
Iain Lumsden
Terry J. Lundgren
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M
Ma Fucai
John J. Mack
Terunobu Maeda
Joseph Magliochetti
Marjorie Magner
Richard Mahoney
Steven J. Malcolm

Richard A. Manoogian
Mohamed Hassan Marican
Reuben Mark
Michael E. Marks
J. Willard Marriott Jr.
R. Brad Martin
Strive Masiyiwa
David Maxwell
L. Lowry Mays
Michael B. McCallister
W. Alan McCollough
Mike McGavick
Eugene R. McGrath
Judy McGrath
William W. McGuire
Tom McKillop
Henry A. McKinnell Jr.
C. Steven McMillan
Scott G. McNealy
W. James McNerney Jr.
Dee Mellor
Jean-Marie Messier
Gérard Mestrallet
Edouard Michelin
Charles Milhaud
Alexei Miller
Stuart A. Miller
Akio Mimura
Vittorio Mincato
Rafael Miranda Robredo

Fujio Mitarai
William E. Mitchell
Hayao Miyazaki
Anders C. Moberg
Larry Montgomery
James P. Mooney
Ann Moore
Patrick J. Moore
Giuseppe Morchio
Tomijiro Morita
Angelo R. Mozilo
Anne M. Mulcahy
Leo F. Mullin
James J. Mulva
Raúl Muñoz Leos
James Murdoch
Lachlan Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch
N. R. Murthy
A. Maurice Myers
N
Kunio Nakamura
Robert L. Nardelli
Jacques Nasser
M. Bruce Nelson
Yoshifumi Nishikawa
Hidetoshi Nishimura
Uichiro Niwa
Gordon M. Nixon
Jeffrey Noddle

Tamotsu Nomakuchi
Indra K. Nooyi
Blake W. Nordstrom
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Richard C. Notebaert
David C. Novak
Erle Nye
O
James J. O’Brien Jr.
Mark J. O’Brien
Robert J. O’Connell
Steve Odland
Adebayo Ogunlesi
Minoru Ohnishi
Motoyuki Oka
Tadashi Okamura
Jorma Ollila
Thomas D. O’Malley
E. Stanley O’Neal
David J. O’Reilly
Amancio Ortega
Marcel Ospel
Paul Otellini
Mutsutake Otsuka
Lindsay Owen-Jones
P
Pae Chong-yeul
Samuel J. Palmisano

Helmut Panke
Gregory J. Parseghian
Richard D. Parsons
Corrado Passera
Hank Paulson
Michel Pébereau
Roger S. Penske
A. Jerrold Perenchio
Peter J. Pestillo
Donald K. Peterson
Howard G. Phanstiel
Joseph A. Pichler
William F. Pickard
Harvey R. Pierce
Mark C. Pigott
Bernd Pischetsrieder
Fred Poses
John E. Potter
Myrtle Potter
Paul S. Pressler
Larry L. Prince
Richard B. Priory
Alessandro Profumo
Henri Proglio
David J. Prosser
Philip J. Purcell III
Q
Allen I. Questrom
R
Franklin D. Raines

M. S. Ramachandran
Dieter Rampl
Lee R. Raymond
Steven A. Raymund
Sumner M. Redstone
Dennis H. Reilley
Steven S. Reinemund
Eivind Reiten
Glenn M. Renwick
Linda Johnson Rice
Pierre Richard
Kai-Uwe Ricke
Stephen Riggio
Jim Robbins
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Brian L. Roberts
Harry J. M. Roels
Steven R. Rogel
James E. Rogers
Bruce C. Rohde
James E. Rohr
Matthew K. Rose
Bob Rossiter
Renzo Rosso
John W. Rowe
Allen R. Rowland
Patricia F. Russo
Edward B. Rust Jr.

Arthur F. Ryan
Patrick G. Ryan
Thomas M. Ryan
S
Alfredo Sáenz
Mary F. Sammons
Steve Sanger
Ron Sargent
Arun Sarin
Mikio Sasaki
Paolo Scaroni
George A. Schaefer Jr.
Leonard D. Schaeffer
Hans-Jürgen Schinzler
James J. Schiro
Werner Schmidt
Richard J. Schnieders
Jürgen E. Schrempp
Howard Schultz
Ekkehard D. Schulz
Gerald W. Schwartz
Louis Schweitzer
H. Lee Scott Jr.
Richard M. Scrushy
Ivan G. Seidenberg
Donald S. Shaffer
Kevin W. Sharer
William J. Shea
Donald J. Shepard
Yoichi Shimogaichi

Etsuhiko Shoyama
Thomas Siebel
Henry R. Silverman
Russell Simmons
James D. Sinegal
Carlos Slim
Bruce A. Smith
Fred Smith
O. Bruton Smith
Stacey Snider
Jure Sola
George Soros
William S. Stavropoulos
Sy Sternberg
David L. Steward
Martha Stewart
Patrick T. Stokes
Harry C. Stonecipher
Hans Stråberg
Belinda Stronach
Ronald D. Sugar
Osamu Suzuki
Toshifumi Suzuki
Carl-Henric Svanberg
William H. Swanson
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Noel N. Tata
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Ken Thompson
Rex W. Tillerson
Robert L. Tillman
Glenn Tilton
James S. Tisch
Barrett A. Toan
Doreen Toben
Don Tomnitz
Shoichiro Toyoda
Tony Trahar
Marco Tronchetti Provera
Donald Trump
Shiro Tsuda
Kazuo Tsukuda
Joseph M. Tucci
Ted Turner
John H. Tyson
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Robert J. Ulrich
Thomas J. Usher
Shoei Utsuda
Akio Utsumi
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Roy A. Vallee
Anton van Rossum
Thomas H. Van Weelden
Daniel Vasella

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Ben Verwaayen
Heinrich von Pierer
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Norio Wada
Rick Wagoner
Ted Waitt
Paul S. Walsh
Robert Walter
Shigeo Watanabe
Fumiaki Watari
Philip B. Watts
Jürgen Weber
Sandy Weill
Serge Weinberg
Alberto Weisser
Jack Welch
William C. Weldon
Werner Wenning
Norman H. Wesley
W. Galen Weston
Leslie H. Wexner
Kenneth Whipple
Edward E. Whitacre Jr.
Miles D. White
Meg Whitman
David R. Whitwam
Hans Wijers
Michael E. Wiley
Bruce A. Williamson

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Oprah Winfrey
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Edward Zander
John D. Zeglis
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Zhang Enzhao
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Zhou Deqiang
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Edward J. Zore
Klaus Zumwinkel
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■■■
Alfredo Sáenz
1942–
Chief executive officer, Banco

Santander Central Hispano
Nationality: Spanish.
Born: November 1942, in Las Arenas, Spain.
Education: University of Valladolid, JD; Deusto University,
MS.
Family: Married; children: three.
Career: Tubacex, 1965–1980, board member; Banco
Vizcaya, 1980–1983, director of planning; Banca
Catalana, 1983–1988, managing director; Banco
Vizcaya, 1988–1990, managing director; Banco Bilbao
Vizcaya, 1990–1993, first vice president; Banco
Español de Crédito (Banesto), 1993–2002, president;
Banco Santander Central Hispano, 2002–, CEO.
Address: Plaza de Canalejas 1, 28014 Madrid, Spain;
.
■ Alfredo Sáenz established himself as an expert at saving fail-
ing banks in Spain. With degrees in both law and economics,
he worked for many years in the industrial sector in his native
Basque country. In the 1980s he entered banking and quickly
became one of the country’s most influential bankers. He
made his reputation by rescuing the declining Banca Catalana.
He cemented this reputation by restoring Banesto in the
1990s. Known for his single-minded dedication to whatever
task was at hand, Sáenz went to work in the early 2000s to help
Banco Santander Central Hispano in its attempt to solve its
economic difficulties in Latin America.
EARLY CAREER
Born in 1942 in Spain’s Basque country, Sáenz obtained
a law degree from the University of Valladolid. He also re-
ceived a degree in economics from the prestigious Jesuit Deus-

to University in Bilbao, where he later taught management on
occasion. Sáenz turned down such positions as deputy defense
minister in the Spanish government to work in the industrial
sector in the Basque country. From 1965 to 1980, he worked
for Tubacex, a Basque steel pipe producer. After leaving Tu-
bacex, Sáenz went into banking. In 1980 Pedro Toledo, who
ran Banco Vizcaya, hired Sáenz as director of planning. Tole-
do, who had close ties to Spain’s Socialist government, hired
numerous bright and ambitious young Spanish executives,
many of whom went on to become some of the country’s most
influential bankers.
The 1980s were a time of crisis in the Spanish banking sec-
tor, and many banks were failing. Among those experiencing
financial difficulties was the Banca Catalana. Spain’s Central
Bank fired Catalana’s management, and Banco Vizcaya took
it over. Toledo sent Sáenz to rescue the failing Catalan bank.
He soon made Catalana into one of Spain’s most profitable
banks. Sáenz became well liked in Barcelona, an unusual com-
pliment for a Basque. He even went so far as to make his first
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speech to Catalana shareholders in the Catalan language,
which he had learned in just nine months.
Toledo’s Banco Vizcaya later merged with Banco Bilbao,
and soon a cultural clash between the employees of the two
banks emerged. Some saw Vizcaya’s managers as too flashy and
incapable of running a large bank. Bilbao’s executives had the
reputation of being pen pushers who spent too much time
counting paper clips. In 1988 Vizacaya’s Toledo and Bilbao’s
José Angel Sánchez Asain became copresidents of the new
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (BBV). Then, in 1989, Toledo died.

The following year the Central Bank announced that it would
pick a single president for BBV. There was some talk that it
would select Sáenz to run the bank. However, the Central
Bank picked Bilbao’s Emilio Ybarra instead, relegating Sáenz
to the position of first vice president. Sáenz accepted the lesser
position with grace.
SÁENZ RESCUES BANESTO
In December 1993 Sáenz was provisionally named as presi-
dent of the Banco Español de Crédito (Banesto). Spain’s Cen-
tral Bank selected Sáenz to replace Mario Conde and to rescue
the failing bank. The backing of the Central Bank virtually as-
sured that shareholders would elect Sáenz as president. Many
analysts in Spanish banking circles felt that the Central Bank
rewarded Sáenz with the Banesto post for graciously accepting
the post of vice president at BBV rather than fighting the deci-
sion.
BBV, Sáenz’s employer, agreed to “lend” the executive to
Banesto. Soon both BBV and Banco Santander were compet-
ing to take over Banesto. Many analysts thought that since
BBV had allowed Sáenz to go to Banesto, it had the inside
track to absorb the failing bank. However, in April, Banco
Santander won out and took control of Banesto. In an ironic
twist, Banco Santander kept Sáenz as president of Banesto
with a generous compensation package rather than letting him
return to BBV. Banco Santander wanted to keep Sáenz be-
cause of his established reputation as a troubleshooter who was
capable of restoring the health of failing banks. Once firmly
in position at Banesto, Sáenz brought a number of high-
ranking executives from BBV, all of them former employees
of Banco Vizcaya before the merger with Bilbao.

Sáenz informed the Financial Times that he had to start
from scratch in his rescue efforts at Banesto, saying that “when
I got here I didn’t know where the bathrooms were, let alone
the documents, and the first weeks were horrible. In a question
of weeks, I had to discover what the possibilities were and
where the bank should go if it did recover” (October 4, 1994).
Sáenz established five priorities in his attempt to get Banes-
to back on its feet. Known for his single-mindedness, he ex-
plained to Euromoney (June 1995) that “nobody [was] allowed
to talk to me about anything else.” He didn’t even want to hear
about a possible sixth priority. Sáenz was very strict in adhering
to his five priorities. When all Banesto employees turned on
their computers in the morning, after a screen came up saying
“Buenos dias,” five windows with the five priorities appeared
on their monitors. Each window told the employees how they
and their departments were doing in meeting each one of the
goals as of that day. Sáenz claimed that such a tactic helped
focus his workers on the task at hand.
Principal among the priorities was recovering bad debts, of
which the bank had many. Sáenz appointed 800 employees to
the task of recovering unpaid loans. He also wanted to improve
the bank’s risk-management systems, which he felt were inade-
quate, as was clear from the many bad debts on Banesto’s
books. Rather than blame any particular people for the prob-
lem, Sáenz claimed that there was a general lack of risk man-
agement know-how at the bank. Another step that Sáenz took
was to reconstruct the bank’s loan book, establishing credit rat-
ings for all customers in the hope of avoiding future bad loans.
Sáenz also sought to raise the fees that Banesto charged its cus-
tomers for various services. While not popular with clients, the

bank’s fees had been much lower than those of other Spanish
banks. In addition, Sáenz began to dispose of some of Banes-
to’s assets not related to banking, such as a battery producer,
a mining company, and a winery.
In 1995 Sáenz could claim some successes, although his job
was not done. He informed Euromoney that “by the year’s end,
we will have achieved about 70 percent of our recovery pro-
gram’s aims, but 1996 will still be a housekeeping year” (June
1995). By 1997 Sáenz had restored Banesto to financial health.
The bank was turning a profit, and he had succeeded in cut-
ting the amount of bad loans in half. Ana Patricia Botín, who
replaced Sáenz as Banesto CEO, told the Wall Street Journal,
that “things have improved so much at Banesto under Alfredo,
that finding room for further improvement isn’t easy” (March
27, 2002).
SÁENZ BECOMES CEO AT BANCO SANTANDER
CENTRAL HISPANO
In March 2002 there was a management shake-up at Banco
Santander Central Hispano (SCH), Banesto’s parent compa-
ny. Sáenz left the Banesto post to accept the position of CEO
at SCH. His main concern upon taking over at SCH was the
bank’s exposure to Latin America, especially Argentina. An
economic crisis in that country had led to a depreciating cur-
rency and many restrictions on banking operations. In re-
sponse, Sáenz stopped providing capital to SCH’s Argentine
units until the government there could guarantee a viable fi-
nancial system. Sáenz also vowed to lower his bank’s profile
in Latin America, because he felt poor economic situations in
the region were hurting SCH’s share price. To this end, and
despite the fact that SCH owned banks in 11 Latin American

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countries, Sáenz decided to concentrate only on Brazil, Mexi-
co, Chile, and Puerto Rico. Furthermore, he determined to re-
focus SCH on its European activities.
SÁENZ THE MAN
Sáenz established a reputation as a workaholic technocrat.
He was also known for his ability to focus on the matter at
hand, rarely straying from his current task. He was well like
among his peers. While he had a conservative image, Sáenz was
known to have a great sense of fun underneath his staid veneer.
An avid reader, he typically selected books from his large per-
sonal business library. He also frequently delivered speeches on
the art of management. Sáenz was known as a family man who
spent many summers with his wife and children in Majorca.
See also entries on Banco Bilbao Vizcaya, S.A. and Banco
Santander Central Hispano S.A. in International Directory of
Company Histories.
SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Bruce, Peter, “The Rise of Alfredo Sáenz,” Financial Times,
January 4, 1994.
Burns, Tom, “Banesto Bounces Back to Health with 26
Percent Advance,” Financial Times, January 22, 1998.
———, “Sáenz Poaches from BBV,” Financial Times, May 16,
1994.
———, “Unraveling the Banesto Tangle,” Financial Times,
October 4, 1994.
Crawford, Leslie, “SCH Hit by Exposure in Argentina,”
Financial Times, April 30, 2002.
Eade, Philip, “They Reign in Spain,” Euromoney (September

1994): 38–42.
Levitt, Joshua, “From Industry to Top Banker,” Financial
Times October 21, 2003.
“Makes Sáenz,” Financial Times, April 28, 1994.
Narbrough, Colin, “Banesto Chief Says Revival Is Coming,”
Times (London), August 23, 1994.
Vitzthum, Carlta, “Santander Head’s Daughter Returns to the
Spotlight at Banesto Retail Unit,” Wall Street Journal,
March 27, 2002.
“Wake-up Call at Banesto,” Euromoney (June 1995): 152.
—Ronald Young
Alfredo Sáenz
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■■■
Mary F. Sammons
1946–
President and chief executive officer,
Rite Aid Corporation
Nationality: American.
Born: October 12, 1946, in Portland, Oregon.
Education: Marylhurst College, BS, 1970.
Family: Daughter of Lee W. and Ann (Cherry) Jackson;
married Nickolas F. Sammons, September 12, 1967;
children: one.
Career: Fred Meyer, 1973–1975, management trainee;
1975–1980, buyer; 1980–1986, vice president,
merchandising; 1986–1997, senior vice president and
manager of soft goods division; 1997–1998, executive
vice president, Apparel, Home Electronics, and Home
Group; 1998–1999, president and chief executive

officer of Fred Meyer Stores; Rite Aid Corporation,
1999–2003, president and chief operating officer;
2003–, president and chief executive officer.
Awards: Named Woman of Achievement, YWCA, Portland,
Oregon, 1987; named 2001 Chain Drug Retailer of the
Year by Chain Drug Review magazine; named one of
America’s 50 most powerful women in business by
Fortune magazine, 2003.
Address: Rite Aid Corporation, 30 Hunter Lane, Camp Hill,
Pennsylvania 17011; .
■ Mary Sammons came to Rite Aid Corporation as its new
president and chief operating officer in 1999, a time when the
Pennsylvania-based drugstore chain was teetering on the edge
of bankruptcy. Part of an infusion of new management blood
recruited from Fred Meyer shortly after the latter’s acquisition
by Kroger Company, Sammons in less than five years helped
to steer the company back to profitability. After years of un-
broken losing quarters, in early 2004 Rite Aid posted a profit
of $73.6 million on total revenue of $4.11 billion for the third
quarter of fiscal 2004, which ended November 29, 2003.
These figures were up from a net loss of $16.4 million on sales
of $3.87 billion a year earlier.
Sammons was widely recognized for the pivotal role she
played in engineering the turnaround at Rite Aid. In early
Mary F. Sammons. AP/Wide World Photos.
2002 Chain Drug Review named Sammons Chain Drug Re-
tailer of the Year for 2001, citing her role in a “dramatic meta-
morphosis” that had rescued Rite Aid from the brink of extinc-
tion and transformed it into a drug chain “within sight of its
objective of competing on equal footing with the best drug

chains in America” (January 7, 2002). Also lavish in its praise
of Sammons’s accomplishments was Fortune, which in Octo-
ber 2003 named her to its list of the 50 most powerful women
in American business. Noting that Rite Aid “was a basket case
when Sammons arrived in late 1999,” Fortune cited the new
president’s contribution to the drugstore chain’s recovery in
the closure of more than 400 underperforming stores and the
rebuilding of Rite Aid’s relationships with its vendors.
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LAID OUT SHORT-TERM STRATEGY
To continue Rite Aid’s return to solid profitability, Sam-
mons in late 2003 laid out her short-term strategy for the com-
pany. According to Chain Drug Review (October 27, 2003),
Sammons said that Rite Aid would focus on four key priorities:
(1) growing pharmacy script counts, (2) achieving front-end
sales growth, (3) controlling expenses, and (4) improving cus-
tomer service. Another focus of Sammons’s campaign to re-
build Rite Aid was to improve the morale of the drug chain’s
associates by involving them more deeply in the formulation
of company policy. When Sammons took over as president in
1999, she found that previous management had badly neglect-
ed this important resource. As she told Chain Drug Review,
“Our people had been trampled. They were worried about
their futures and uncertain about what was going to happen
to the company” (December 10, 2001).
Sammons, the daughter of Lee W. and Ann (Cherry) Jack-
son, was born in Portland, Oregon. After finishing high school
in Portland, she enrolled at nearby Marylhurst College, where
in 1970 she earned a bachelor’s degree in French as well as a
secondary-level teaching certificate. At the beginning of her

sophomore year at Marylhurst, Sammons married Nickolas F.
Sammons. In 1973, after a brief career in teaching, Sammons
entered the management training program at Portland-based
Fred Meyer, a major food, drug, and general merchandise re-
tailer in the western United States.
For more than a quarter century, Sammons worked for
Fred Meyer, leaving only after the Oregon-based retailer was
taken over in 1999 by the Ohio-based Kroger Company. After
finishing her management training program in 1975, Sam-
mons began work as a buyer for Fred Meyer, a position she
held until 1980, when she was named vice president for mer-
chandising. In 1986 she was promoted to senior vice president
and named manager of the company’s soft goods division. In
1997 Sammons was appointed executive vice president and as-
signed the responsibility for managing the company’s Apparel,
Home Electronics, and Home Group. A year later she was pro-
moted to president and chief executive officer of Fred Meyer
Stores, the Meyer subsidiary that operates the chain’s large
one-stop shopping centers.
LEFT FRED MEYER AFTER KROGER ACQUISITION
In late 1998 Kroger Company, America’s largest supermar-
ket chain, reached an agreement with the board of Fred Meyer
to acquire Meyer for $13 billion in stock and assumed debt.
Less than seven months after the acquisition was finalized in
late May 1999, Sammons, along with fellow Fred Meyer exec-
utives Robert G. Miller, David Jessick, and John Standley, left
the newly merged company to help save the foundering Rite
Aid from bankruptcy. Sammons joined Rite Aid as president
and chief operating officer while Miller took over as the drug-
store chain’s chairman and CEO. Jessick, formerly the execu-

tive vice president of finance and investor relations at Fred
Meyer, joined Rite Aid as chief administrative officer, and
Standley took over as chief financial officer, the same post he
had held at Fred Meyer.
When Sammons and the rest of the new management team
took over at Rite Aid in December 1999, the drugstore chain
was in total disarray. Martin L. Grass, the son of the compa-
ny’s founder, had resigned in October 1999 as chairman and
CEO amid growing accounting and legal problems. Rite Aid’s
board, led by four of its seven independent directors, renegoti-
ated loan payment schedules to give the company an extra year
to repay $3.3 billion in debts, originally due at the end of Oc-
tober. The Los Angeles-based investment banker Leonard
Green & Partners contributed $300 million to Rite Aid’s
dwindling coffers, giving the company a minority stake in the
chain. In mid-November 1999 KPMG, Rite Aid’s longtime
auditor, severed its relationship with the drug chain because
it claimed it could no longer trust the company’s top managers
accurately to portray Rite Aid’s financial status. On the heels
of KPMG’s announcement, the Securities and Exchange
Commission launched a formal investigation into Rite Aid’s
accounting practices.
HELPED TO CREATE NEW CORPORATE CULTURE
One of Sammons’s priorities in putting Rite Aid on the
road to financial recovery was the creation of a new corporate
culture at the drugstore chain. Under her direction, the com-
pany’s new management slowly opened new lines of commu-
nication with employees at all levels of the chain. Sammons
quickly discovered that most of Rite Aid’s employees had been
all too aware of the company’s problems under its previous

management but had been rebuffed whenever they offered
suggestions for change. Sammons worked hard to turn around
morale, trying to convince all employees that their input was
important and essential if Rite Aid were to recover and prosper
once again. As she told Chain Drug Review (December 10,
2001), “There are a lot of great people here. And people bond
very quickly when they’re working together to overcome ob-
stacles. It’s exciting to see progress being made” and see how
that progress is reflected in improved employee morale.
As Miller and the rest of the new management team fo-
cused on the critical issues of refinancing and the creation of
a reliable financial reporting system, Sammons shouldered the
responsibility for getting Rite Aid’s core drugstore business
back on track and growing once again. To strengthen the oper-
ations of retail outlets throughout the chain, Sammons worked
with vendors to ensure a reliable flow of inventory to stores.
To recapture some of the business lost during the height of
Rite Aid’s financial management crisis, she created pharmacy
advisory panels. These panels, made up of company pharma-
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cists and pharmacy managers, according to MMR magazine
(August 20, 2001), came up with valuable ideas for improving
work flow and customer service as well as innovative pricing
initiatives.
REVIVED RITE AID
Sammons also revived Rite Aid’s advertising circular and
put greater emphasis on customer service. Greater investment
in technology helped to hasten the chain’s progress on the lat-
ter front, with robotics increasing the speed with which pre-

scriptions could be filled and voice messaging systems giving
customers a way to order refills easily and select pickup times.
The payoff for these improvements was quickly reflected in
higher customer counts and prescription counts.
For the first full fiscal year of operations under the new
management team, Rite Aid reported a net loss of nearly $1.6
billion on sales of $14.5 billion. In fiscal 2002, which ended
February 28, 2002, the company’s net loss had been cut almost
in half. Rite Aid reported a fiscal 2002 net loss of $828 million
on revenue of almost $15.2 billion. A year later the company’s
net loss had been significantly reduced to only $112.1 million
on total sales of $15.8 billion.
In April 2003 Rite Aid chairman Miller passed on his CEO
responsibilities to Sammons, whom he said he had decided
early on to recommend as his successor. Sammons, along with
Miller and the rest of the new management team at Rite Aid,
took control of the company at the end of 1999, when most
observers felt a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing was inevitable.
Under their direction the company not only avoided bank-
ruptcy but also managed to reinvigorate sales and significantly
improve operating results. Of Sammons’s contribution to Rite
Aid’s dramatic turnaround, Miller said, “Since we arrived
Mary has had responsibility for running the business day to
day and leading the change to a new corporate culture,” ac-
cording to MMR (January 12, 2004).
WORKED TO BUILD UP PHARMACY BUSINESS
To help Rite Aid build up its pharmacy business, which ac-
counts for roughly 63 percent of total revenue, Sammons took
a series of steps to beef up and streamline the chain’s pharmacy
operations. By late summer 2003 Rite Aid had introduced e-

prescribing into 16 of its markets and announced its intention
eventually to bring that capability to all of its stores. To expe-
dite the expansion of e-prescription capability throughout the
chain, Rite Aid established relationships with ProxyMed and
SureScripts. Another key component of the company’s cam-
paign to increase its pharmacy base was to purchase prescrip-
tion files from independent drugstores. The chain nearly dou-
bled its budget for prescription file purchases during fiscal
2004. Rite Aid also moved aggressively to capture more of the
senior market by test marketing a senior loyalty card that lets
older customers earn back 15 percent of their prescription cost
as a credit toward a future purchase.
In May 2003 Sammons, already the highest-ranking
woman executive in the chain drug industry, became the first
female ever to serve as chairman of the industry’s National As-
sociation of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) for a year. At
NACDS’s Pharmacy and Technology Conference in August
2003, she urged all association members to work together to
elevate the role of the pharmacist. According to Drug Store
News, Sammons emphasized the central role of the pharmacy
in the operation of all drugstore chains. “Simply put, we as an
industry cannot honestly talk about the value of pharmacy un-
less we deliver for our pharmacists by giving them meaningful
involvement in business decisions” (September 22, 2003).
Sammons and her husband, Nickolas, lived in a home not
far from Rite Aid’s headquarters in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
In addition to her responsibilities at Rite Aid and NACDS,
Sammons also served as a member of the board of governors
of the Children’s Miracle Network.
See also entries on Fred Meyer, Inc. and Rite Aid Corporation

in International Directory of Company Histories.
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Belden, Tom, “Rite Aid’s New CEO Aims for Healing from
Ground Up,” Philadelphia Inquirer, August 24, 2003.
Dochat, Tom, “Camp Hill-Based Rite Aid Demotes Its
Finance Chief,” Harrisburg Patriot-News, January 10, 2004.
———, “Rite Aid Executive Receives Payment from Kroger,”
Harrisburg Patriot-News, January 13, 2004.
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Turn-Around Effort,” Sacramento Bee, December 8, 1999.
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2003.
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Review, October 27, 2003.
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Growth,” Drug Store News, August 18, 2003.
———, “On Steadier Ground, Rite Aid Sets New Goals,”
Drug Store News, July 21, 2003.
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Urges Collaboration to Stress Pharmacists’ Role in Patient
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Levy, Marc, “After Scandal, Rite Aid Sees Turnaround,” AP
Online, April 22, 2003.
“Management Instills New Sense of Pride,” Chain Drug Review,
December 10, 2001.
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Review, October 27, 2003.
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December 6, 1999.
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—Don Amerman
Mary F. Sammons
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