In the United States, the board of directors ( elected by the shareholders ) is often equivalent to the supervisory board, while the executive board may often be known as the executive committee ( operating committee or executive council ), composed of the CEO and their direct reports ( other C-level officers, division / subsidiary heads ).

In the United States, the board of directors ( elected by the shareholders ) is often equivalent to the supervisory board, while the executive board may often be known as the executive committee or executive council, composed of the division / subsidiary heads and C-level officers that report directly to the CEO.

* Chief Executive Officer or CEO / Executive Director for the nonprofit sector ( United States ), Chief Executive or Managing director ( United Kingdom, Commonwealth and some other English speaking countries ) – The CEO of a corporation is the highest ranking management officer of a corporation and has final decisions over human, financial, environmental and technical operations of the corporation.

As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of Bill France, Sr. NASCAR is the largest sanctioning body of stock car racing in the United States.

* Kenneth Ouriel, MBA, Former CEO of Shaikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates ; vascular surgeon

* Charles Strauss, MBA 1967, Former President and CEO of Unilever United States

On June 26, 2009, Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, called for the United States to increase its manufacturing base employment to 20 % of the workforce, commenting that the U. S. has outsourced too much in some areas and can no longer rely on the financial sector and consumer spending to drive demand.

At that point, UPI CEO Arnaud de Borchgrave orchestrated UPI's exit from its last major media niche, the broadcast news business that United Press had initiated in the 1930s.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

He was former President and CEO of the Chrysler, LLC ( previously owned by Daimler AG ), he may be best known in the United States as Dr. Z from a Chrysler advertising campaign called " Ask Dr. Z ".

In the United States, the board of directors ( elected by the shareholders ) is often equivalent to the supervisory board, while the executive board may often be known as the executive committee ( the division / subsidiary heads and C-level officers that report directly to the CEO ).

* July 7 Former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay is indicted by a United States federal grand jury on unnamed charges.

* Notable recent graduates of the college include: former Missouri Senator Jim Talent, Nevada Senator Chic Hecht, and former Nebraska Congressman Hal Daub ; George Zimmer, founder of Men's Wearhouse ; Avram Glazer, chairman of Manchester United ; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Ken Cooper and Hank Klibanoff ; Jon Feltheimer, CEO of Lionsgate films ; actors Peter Sarsgaard ( Boys Don't Cry, An Education, Flight Plan ) and Harold Ramis ( Ghostbusters, Caddyshack ); U. S. Ambassador Sam Fox ; baseball player Dal Maxvill ; and science-show host Deanne Bell ( Design Squad ).

Previous CEOs included David Levin, who left in 2005 to head United Business Media PLC, and the founding CEO, Colly Myers, who left the company in 2002 to found IssueBits, the company behind SMS information service Any Question Answered ( AQA ).

Founded by Bill Rasmussen, his son Scott Rasmussen and Aetna insurance agent Ed Eagan, it launched on September 7, 1979, under the direction of Chet Simmons, the network's President and CEO ( and later the United States Football League's first commissioner ).

Later that year, he was named President and Director of United Technologies Corporation ( UTC ) under Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) Harry J.

In 2004, the Army in the United States received a $ 1. 6 billion donation in the will of Joan B. Kroc, third wife of former McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc.

As CEO, Carrion has led the way through numerous innovations in the company such as its expansion through the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States.

Civil and criminal cases are pending in the United States District Court, Manhattan and the District Court of Bhopal, India, involving UCC, UCIL employees, and Warren Anderson, UCC CEO at the time of the disaster.

John Wilbur ' Wild Bill ' Stealey Sr. ( born 1947 ) is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant colonel and the current CEO of iEntertainment Network.

Wagner was named CEO of United Artists, which was allotted an annual slate of four films with different budget ranges, while Cruise serves as a producer for the revamped studio as well as serving as the occasional star.

After Walter C. Laidlaw fell ill, William Aramony became CEO of the national governing body which was known as the United Community Funds and Council of America ( UCFCA ) and in 1970 the organization was renamed United Way of America ( UWA ), and moved from New York City to Alexandria, Virginia in 1971.

* Leslie Wexner, founder and CEO of Limited Brands

* Ann M. Fudge, 2006 -, former chairman and CEO, Young & Rubicam Brands, New York.

Leslie " Les " H. Wexner ( born September 8, 1937 in Dayton, Ohio ) is an American businessman from Columbus, Ohio, and currently chairman and CEO of the Limited Brands corporation.

* In the field of business, Rider graduates include: Neil B. Friedman, president of Mattel Brands ; Thomas J. Lynch, CEO of Tyco Electronics ; Donald Monks, Vice Chairman & Chief Administrative Officer, The Bank of New York Mellon ; Mike Pulli, CEO of Pace plc ; Thomas O ' Riordan, former CEO of American Sporting Goods Corporation ; Robert Schimek, Senior Vice President & CFO American International Group ; Ronald Schlosser, chairman & CEO of Haights Cross Communications ; John T. Spitznagel, chairman & CEO of Oceana Therapeutics ; Howard Stoeckel, CEO of Wawa ; Kenneth Yen, CEO of China Motor Corporation ; Meg Walsh, president of Medscape Consumer and internationally-recognized authority in e-health ; and Michael F. Lee, Jr., CAIA, Regional Director of Hatteras Funds

In 1988, F. Ross Johnson was the President and CEO of RJR Nabisco, formed in 1985 by the merger of Nabisco Brands and R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, a leading producer of food products ( Shredded Wheat, Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, Planters peanuts, Life Savers, Del Monte Fruit and Vegetables, and Snickers Chocolate ) as well as Winston, Camel and Salem cigarettes.

Board members include Seth Horowitz, CEO, of Everlast Worldwide, Neil Cole, CEO of Iconix Brands, Julie Greenwald, President of Atlantic Records and Ronn Torossian, CEO of 5WPR.

In January 2010 Carter became CEO of B-M UK, the leading public relations and communications consultancy, a part of Young & Rubicam Brands, a subsidiary of WPP.

Johnson negotiated a merger between Standard Brands and Nabisco with Nabisco CEO Bob Schaeberle in 1981.

: For the Wilton Brands CEO, Revlon CEO, Sunbeam / American Household CEO, Sharper Image Chairman, see Jerry W. Levin

He became an executive in Orkla Foods and Orkla Brands in 2001, and CEO in 2005.

And as of October 2009, is Chairman and Interim CEO of Wilton Brands, Inc. Levin was Vice Chairman of Clinton Group, a private diversified asset management company, between December 2007 and October 2008.

She continued as CEO until Beech was purchased by Raytheon Company on 8 February 1980.

One mine located in Karkar, Bağlan, Afghanistan sold by the Afghan Government to the Afghan Investment Company despite family ties between Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, and Afghan Investment Company's CEO, Mahmood Karzai was said to be in terrible condition as of November, 2010.

For example, if Company A's CEO did not trade on the undisclosed takeover news, but instead passed the information on to his brother-in-law who traded on it, illegal insider trading would still have occurred ( albeit by proxy by passing it on to a " non-insider " so Company A's CEO wouldn't get his hands dirty ).

For example: if, while dining at a restaurant, you hear the CEO of Company A at the next table telling the CFO that the company's profits will be higher than expected, and then you buy the stock, you are not guilty of insider trading unless there was some closer connection between you, the company, or the company officers.

* J. Bruce Elliot-former CEO of Labatt Brewing Company and present CEO of Second Cup

* August 4 – Alan Mulally, American businessman, current CEO of the Ford Motor Company

* March 24 – Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, and French Prime Minister and future President of France, Jacques Chirac, sign the agreement to construct the Euro Disney Resort ( now called Disneyland Paris ) and to develop the Val d ' Europe area of the new town Marne-la-Vallée in Paris, France.

* George Fellows, MBA, CEO of Callaway Golf Company

* Sidney Taurel, MBA 1971, Chairman and CEO of Eli Lilly and Company

Private companies usually have a " State of the Corporation " or " State of the Company " address given by the respective CEO.

Disney CEO Michael Eisner took an especially keen interest in the development of the new town in the early days, encouraging the executives at Disney Development Company to " make history " and develop a town worthy of the Disney brand and legacy that extended to Walt Disney's vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ( EPCOT ).

In May 2005, The New York Times Company named Scott Meyer as president and CEO of About. com.

In June 2008, The New York Times Company named Cella M. Irvine as CEO of the About Group.

In 1998 he hired Lodwrick Cook, former CEO of Atlantic Richfield Company ( ARCO ), as co-chairman.

Keynote speakers included Sega of America, Inc. president and CEO Thomas Kalinske ; Sony Electronic Publishing Company president Olaf Olafsson ; and Nintendo chairman Howard Lincoln.

In February 2006, Disney CEO Bob Iger initiated a trade with NBC Universal in which a number of minor assets, including the rights to Oswald, were acquired by The Walt Disney Company in exchange for sending sportscaster Al Michaels from Disney's ABC and ESPN to NBC Sports.

Bush, former CEO of Haliburton Company.

Current members of the board of directors of Monsanto are: David L. Chicoine, president of South Dakota State University ; Hugh Grant, the president and CEO of Monsanto ; Arthur H. Harper, managing partner of GenNx360 Capital Partners ; Gwendolyn King, president of Podium Prose, a speakers bureau ; Laura K. Ipsen, senior VP and general manager of Connected Energy Networks at Cisco Systems, Inc., C. Steven McMillan, former chairman and CEO of the Sara Lee Corporation ; William U. Parfet, chief executive officer of MPI Research Inc .; Janice L. Fields, president of McDonald's USA ; George H. Poste, chief executive of Health Technology Networks ; and Jon R. Moeller, chief financial officer of The Procter & Gamble Company.

She served as publisher from 1969 to 1979 and headed The Washington Post Company into the early 1990s as chairman of the board and CEO.

The first graduate of Lincoln High School was the famous Cities Service Company CEO Burl S. Watson, who graduated from LHS in 1912.