UPDATE: Robert Swaak served as CEO of ABN AMRO Bank from April 2020 to April 2025. The current CEO is Marguerite Bérard, who was appointed on 23 April 2025 — the first woman to lead a major Dutch bank. ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is one of the largest banks in the Netherlands, with total assets […]
BNP Paribas, Europe’s largest bank by total assets and one of the world’s most important financial institutions, is led by Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, who has served as CEO since December 2011. Born on Bastille Day (July 14, 1961), Bonnafé is one of the longest-serving CEOs of any major global bank. He personally led the integration of […]
UPDATE: Laura Shapira Karet served as CEO of Giant Eagle from January 2012 until March 2023. The current CEO is Bill Artman, appointed permanently in August 2023. Bill Artman — Salary, Age, Email & Net Worth → Giant Eagle, Inc., one of the largest privately held supermarket chains in the United States, was founded in […]
Michael Dell is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), one of the world’s largest technology infrastructure companies. Dell founded the company in 1984 from his University of Texas dorm room with just $1,000, became the youngest-ever Fortune 500 CEO at age 27, took the company private in a historic $24.4 billion […]
Colleen Wegman is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Wegmans Food Markets, one of the most beloved grocery chains in the United States. A fourth-generation leader of the family business, Colleen became President in 2005 and ascended to the CEO role in 2017, succeeding her father Danny Wegman. Under her stewardship, Wegmans has expanded […]
Note: Chris Kempa served as CEO of True Value Company from 2020 until the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 2024. True Value was subsequently acquired by Do it Best Corp. for $153 million, with the sale completed on November 22, 2024. True Value now operates as a subsidiary of Do it Best […]
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), the nation’s largest company by market capitalization, is led by Matt Comyn, who became Managing Director and CEO in April 2018. At age 42, Comyn became the youngest-ever CEO of Commonwealth Bank. Originally trained in aviation — he holds a Bachelor of Aviation degree from UNSW — Comyn pivoted to […]
Barclays PLC, one of Britain’s “Big Four” banks and a major global financial institution with over 330 years of history, is led by CS Venkatakrishnan (known as “Venkat”), who became Group Chief Executive in November 2021. Born in Mysore, India, Venkat holds a PhD from MIT in operations research — his dissertation analyzed air traffic […]
Lloyds Banking Group, the UK’s largest retail bank with over 30 million customers, is led by Charlie Nunn, who became Group Chief Executive in August 2021. Unusually for a major bank CEO, Nunn spent the first 17 years of his career as a management consultant at Accenture and McKinsey before entering banking at age 40. […]
John Menard Jr. is the Founder, President, and Owner of Menards, the third-largest home improvement chain in the United States. At 86 years old, Menard continues to run the 341-store Midwestern empire he built from a single pole building business in 1958. With a net worth estimated between $17.5 billion and $22.9 billion, he is […]