COMPANY

The Big Board, founded in 1817.

Official Website:
http://www.nyse.com/

Industry:
Financial Market

Ticker:
(private)

Corporate headquarters:
New York City

Sales:
$1B (2003)

Employees:
1500 (2003)

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
C. Douglas Dillon	Government	21-Aug-1909	10-Jan-2003	US Treasury Secretary, 1961-65
Rick Jason	Actor	21-May-1923	16-Oct-2000	Lt. Gil Hanley on Combat!
Ellen Tauscher	Politician	15-Nov-1951		Former Congresswoman, California 10th

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Sheila C. Bair	Government	c. 1953		FDIC Chairman
Bill Donaldson	Government	2-Jun-1931		SEC Chairman, 2003-05
Walter N. Frank	Business	22-Apr-1908	15-Feb-2000	Chairman of the NYSE, 1965-67
Richard Grasso	Business	1946		CEO of the NYSE, 1995-2003
David H. Komansky	Business	c. 1939		CEO of Merrill Lynch, 1996-2002
William McChesney Martin	Economist	17-Dec-1906	29-Jul-1998	Federal Reserve Chairman, 1951-70
Deryck Maughan	Business	c. 1947		CEO of Citigroup International, 1998-2002
John J. Phelan, Jr.	Business	7-May-1931	4-Aug-2012	CEO of the NYSE, 1984-91
John S. Reed	Business	1939		CEO of Citibank, 1984-2000
John A. Thain	Business	26-May-1955		CEO of CIT Group
Margaret Tutwiler	Diplomat	28-Dec-1950		US Ambassador to Morocco, 2001-03

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Karl M. von der Heyden	Business	?		Vice Chairman of Pepsi, 1996-2001
Robert B. Shapiro	Business	4-Aug-1938		CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000
John A. Thain	Business	26-May-1955		CEO of CIT Group

BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Madeleine Albright	Diplomat	15-May-1937		Bill Clinton's Secretary of State
Paul Allaire	Business	21-Jul-1938		Twice CEO of Xerox
John Brademas	Politician	2-Mar-1927		Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81
Richard C. Breeden	Government	6-Dec-1949		SEC Chairman, 1989-93
Louis C. Camilleri	Business	1955		CEO of Altria
John L. Clendenin	Business	c. 1933		CEO of Bellsouth, 1984-96
Carly Fiorina	Business	6-Sep-1954		CEO of Hewlett Packard, 1999-2005
Shirley A. Jackson	Physicist	5-Aug-1946		NRC Chairman, 1995-99
Kenneth Langone	Business	c. 1935		Co-Founder of Home Depot
Thomas A. Renyi	Business	c. 1945		Chairman of Bank of New York Mellon
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.	Business	13-Sep-1926		CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1987-92

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Herbert M. Allison	Business	24-Aug-1943		CEO of TIAA-CREF, 2002-08
John P. Birkelund	Business	23-Jun-1930		Chairman of Dillon Read, 1986-98
John S. Chalsty	Business	c. 1933		CEO, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, 1986-96
Peter A. Cohen	Business	c. 1946		CEO of Shearson Lehman, 1983-90
Ralph D. DeNunzio	Business	17-Nov-1931		CEO of Kidder Peabody, 1980-87
Bill Donaldson	Government	2-Jun-1931		SEC Chairman, 2003-05
Lawrence D. Fink	Business	c. 1953		CEO of BlackRock
John W. Fisher	Business	c. 1916	28-Jun-2009	CEO of Ball Corporation, 1970-81
Walter N. Frank	Business	22-Apr-1908	15-Feb-2000	Chairman of the NYSE, 1965-67
Richard Grasso	Business	1946		CEO of the NYSE, 1995-2003
Stephen L. Hammerman	Business	18-Apr-1938		Former Vice Chairman, Merrill Lynch
Juanita M. Kreps	Government	11-Jan-1921	5-Jul-2010	US Secretary of Commerce, 1977-79
Peter N. Larson	Business	1939		CEO of Brunswick, 1995-2000
Bernie Marcus	Business	12-May-1929		Co-Founder of Home Depot
Donald Marron	Business	21-Jul-1934		PaineWebber CEO
James S. McDonald	Business	26-Jan-1953	12-Sep-2009	CEO of Rockefeller & Co.
Leon Panetta	Government	28-Jun-1938		US Secretary of Defense
John J. Phelan, Jr.	Business	7-May-1931	4-Aug-2012	CEO of the NYSE, 1984-91
John S. Reed	Business	1939		CEO of Citibank, 1984-2000
Donald Regan	Government	21-Dec-1918	10-Jun-2003	US Secretary of the Treasury, 1981-85
Felix Rohatyn	Business	29-May-1928		Financier, Lazard Frères
Robert E. Rubin	Government	29-Aug-1938		US Treasury Secretary, 1995-99
William Schreyer	Business	13-Jan-1928	22-Jan-2011	CEO of Merrill Lynch, 1984-92
George L. Shinn	Business	12-Mar-1923		CEO of First Boston, 1975-83
Dennis Weatherstone	Business	29-Nov-1930	13-Jun-2008	CEO of JP Morgan, 1990-94
John C. Whitehead	Business	2-Apr-1922		US Deputy Secretary of State, 1985-89
Kathryn J. Whitmire	Politician	15-Aug-1946		Mayor of Houston, 1982-91

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John W. Bachmann	Business	16-Nov-1938		Partner, Edward Jones
Hank Barnette	Business	c. 1934		CEO of Bethlehem Steel, 1992-2000
Eugene P. Beard	Business	c. 1935		CFO of Interpublic Group, 1980-99
Kenneth Bialkin	Attorney	9-Sep-1929		Mergers & Acquisitions lawyer
Jack O. Bovender, Jr.	Business	16-Aug-1945		CEO of HCA, 2002-09
Walter Dellinger	Attorney	15-May-1941		Duke University law professor
Charles Dow	Journalist	5-Nov-1851	4-Dec-1902	Dow of Dow Jones
Anthony F. Earley, Jr.	Business	29-Jul-1949		CEO of DTE Energy
Richard J. Egan	Business	28-Feb-1936	28-Aug-2009	Co-Founder, EMC Corporation
Richard N. Gardner	Diplomat	9-Jul-1927		US Ambassador to Spain, 1993-97
Harvey J. Goldschmid	Government	6-May-1940		SEC Commissioner, 2002-05
Joseph A. Grundfest	Attorney	8-Sep-1951		Stanford law professor
Carlos Slim Helu	Business	28-Jan-1940		World's richest man, 2010
Kenneth C. Hogate	Publisher	27-Jul-1897	11-Feb-1947	President of Dow Jones, 1931-45
Martin Lipton	Attorney	22-Jun-1931		Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Raymond A. Mason	Business	c. 1937		CEO of Legg Mason, 1981-2008
Robert Pozen	Business	1946		Fidelity Investments
W. Allen Reed	Business	1947		CEO of GM Asset Management, 1994-2005
William Schwartz	Business	6-May-1933		Dean of Boston University Law, 1980-88
L. Edward Shaw, Jr.	Attorney	c. 1944		General Counsel for Aetna, 1999-2003
Roger Smith	Business	12-Jul-1925	29-Nov-2007	CEO of General Motors, 1980-90
Ratan N. Tata	Business	28-Dec-1937		Chairman of Tata Group
Edward Suning Tian	Business	c. 1964		China Broadband Capital Partners
George Herbert Walker III	Diplomat	c. 1931		US Ambassador to Hungary, 2003-06
Richard H. Walker	Attorney	c. 1950		General Counsel, Deutsche Bank

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