Adrianus G. Jacobs (born 1936) [1] is a Dutch businessman, the former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell from 2004 to 2006, [2] and of ING Group from 1992 to 1998. [3] [4]
Jacobs has been a director of numerous companies. [5] In 2002, Jacobs was inducted into the Insurance Hall of Fame. [6]
The ING Group is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam. Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, wholesale banking, private banking, asset management, and insurance services. With total assets of US$1.1 trillion, it is one of the biggest banks in the world, and consistently ranks among the top 30 largest banks globally. It is among the top ten in the list of largest European companies by revenue.
Charles Otis "Chad" Holliday, Jr. is an American businessman, former chairman of Bank of America, former chief executive officer and a former director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont). He is chairman emeritus of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and chairman of the Business Roundtable's Task Force for Environment, Technology and Economy. Holliday is also a founding member of the International Business Council and serves on the board of advisors of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.
Richard Li Tzar Kai is a Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist. The founder and chairman of the private investment group Pacific Century Group (PCG), Li started his career in the 1990s with the founding of STAR TV, a pan-Asian television network. After founding PCG in 1993, he went on to establish PCCW and HKT Trust. In 2010, PCG acquired the asset management business of AIG Investments and renamed it to Pinebridge Investments. In 2013, PCG founded FWD Group. Richard Li currently serves as chairman of PCG, PCCW Ltd. and HKT Limited. He is also on the boards of companies including Pinebridge Investments. Forbes listed his net worth in 2020 at $4.5 billion, ranking him 20th on its list of the richest businesspeople in Hong Kong.
Kenneth Irvine Chenault is an American business executive. He was the CEO and Chairman of American Express from 2001 until 2018. He is the third African American CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
The Insurance Hall of Fame, occasionally referred to as the International Insurance Hall of Fame, honors exceptional members of the insurance field. It was created in 1957 and is administered by the global nonprofit International Insurance Society (IIS), which was founded in 1965 and is based in New York City.
Alan George "A. G." Lafley is an American businessman who led consumer goods maker Procter & Gamble (P&G) for two separate stints, from 2000 to 2010 and again from 2013 to 2015, during which he served as chairman, president and CEO. In 2015, he stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman of P&G, eventually retiring in June 2016.
William Philip Lauder is an American billionaire businessman, and executive chairman of The Estée Lauder Companies, one of the world's leading manufacturers of skin care, make-up, fragrance and hair care products.
Patrick G. Ryan is an American billionaire insurance businessman. He is the founder and retired chairman and CEO of Aon Corporation. In 2010, he founded Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) as a holding company aimed at providing specialty services to insurance brokers, agents and carriers. RSG's first subsidiary, ThinkRisk, began business in December 2009 to provide underwriting and claims management services for media, technology, advertising and network security.
Royal Dutch Shell plc, in future Shell plc, is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom as a public limited company. It is one of the oil and gas "supermajors", and, measured by 2020 revenues, the 19th-largest company in the world. It is the largest based in Europe and is the largest company overall which is not based in either China or the United States. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Shell was ranked as the 21st-largest public company in the world. Shell was first in the 2013 Fortune Global 500 list of the world's largest companies; in that year its revenues were equivalent to 84% of the Dutch national $556 billion GDP. Since then, Shell has dropped to the fifth largest company on the Global 500, but is still the largest non-state-owned energy corporation in the world and the second-largest non-Chinese corporation in the world, falling short only to Walmart.
Jay Steven Fishman served as chairman and chief executive officer of The Travelers Companies for 11 years prior to stepping down in December 2015, following a diagnosis of ALS. He was employed as the executive chairman of the board of Travelers from December 2015 until his death in August 2016.
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans is a business person who is the former Chairperson, Chief Executive Officer and President of Sunoco.
Albert P. L. Stroucken is a Dutch businessman. He is the former president, chief executive and chairman of H.B. Fuller and Owens-Illinois.
Walter James "Jim" McNerney Jr. is a business executive who was President and CEO of The Boeing Company, June 2005–July 2015. McNerney was also Chairman from June 2005 until March 1, 2016. McNerney oversaw development of the Boeing 737 MAX.
Bradley "Brad" Jacobs is an American businessman. He is chairman and chief executive officer of XPO Logistics, Inc., non-executive chairman of GXO Logistics, and managing director of Jacobs Private Equity, LLC.
Brian Charles Duperreault is a Bermuda-born American executive in the insurance industry. He is executive chairman and former CEO of American International Group.
Ralph Adrianus Joseph Gerardus Hamers is a Dutch businessman who is the UBS Group CEO. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Dutch bank ING Group from October 2013 until June 2020.
Tony Aquila, is an American businessman, investor, serial entrepreneur, and inventor associated with 100+ patents in the automotive, aeronautics and cybersecurity sectors. He is the current CEO and chairman of Canoo Technologies, Inc., founder and former chairman and CEO of Solera Holdings, a technology company that provides risk and asset management software and services to the automotive industry, as well as the property and casualty insurance industry.
Neil Smit is an American businessman and former CEO of Comcast Cable, an American corporation providing cable, entertainment, and communications products and services.
Edward Francis Crawford is an American businessman and entrepreneur who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland from 2019 to 2021. He previously served as chairman and CEO of Park-Ohio Holdings, "an industrial supply chain logistics and diversified manufacturing business."
Thomas M. Rutledge is the chairman and CEO of Charter Communications. He previously also served as president of the company from 2012 to 2016. Before joining Charter, he served as COO of Cablevision from 2004 until 2011. He also previously served as president of Time Warner Cable. Rutledge is currently the chairman of the board of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA), and currently serves on the boards of CableLabs and C-SPAN. In 2011, he received NCTA's Vanguard Award for Distinguished Leadership, the cable industry's highest honor. He is also a member of the Cable Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 2011. He attended California University in California, Pennsylvania where he graduated with a B.A. in economics in 1977.