Russ Robinson is an American heir and businessman. [1] [2] [3] [4]
His father was Jerome Robinson (1929-2009), the founder of U.S. Zinc and a prominent philanthropist in the Houston, Texas community. [4] He graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1979. [1] [2] [3] [5]
From 1979 to 2002, he served as chief executive officer of the family company, U.S. Zinc, and sold it to Imco Recycling. [1] [2] [3] From 2002 to 2004, he served as chief executive officer of Metaleurop, French-German publicly owned company specializing in zinc and lead. [1] [2] [3] In 2006, he founded Steel Dust Recycling and sold it to Zinc Nacional in 2009. [1] [2] [3] In 2010, he founded Global Steel Dust, a global steel dust recycling company headquartered in Switzerland. [1] [2] [3] [6] He currently serves as its chief executive officer. [3] [6] The company has ongoing steel dust recycling plants projects in Saudi Arabia and South Korea. It recycles steel dust and produces crude zinc oxide for further reprocessing by zinc smelters. [6]
Gordon M. Bethune is a retired US airline executive. He was the CEO of Continental Airlines from 1994 until his retirement at the end of 2004. He formerly served on the boards of Honeywell and Prudential Financial. Bethune was known for ensuring that he received some time as a pilot when taking delivery of a new Continental Airlines Boeing 767 from Boeing and repositioning it from Seattle to Houston.
Sulzer Ltd. is a Swiss industrial engineering and manufacturing firm, founded by Salomon Sulzer-Bernet in 1775 and established as Sulzer Brothers Ltd. in 1834 in Winterthur, Switzerland. Today it is a publicly traded company with some 180 manufacturing facilities and service centers around the world. The company's shares are listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange.
Robert Anthony Lutz is a Swiss-American automotive executive. He served as a top leader of all of the United States Big Three automobile manufacturers, having been in succession executive vice president of Ford Motor Company, president and then vice chairman of Chrysler Corporation, and vice chairman of General Motors.
Roy Michael Huffington was an American oilman originally from Tomball in Harris County, Texas, who later served as United States Ambassador to Austria.
James Dixon Robinson III is an American businessman best known for his position as the chief executive officer of American Express Co. from 1977 until his retirement in 1993.
Martha Robinson Rivers Ingram is an American billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist. In 1995, Ingram succeeded her late husband as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Ingram Industries, one of America's largest privately-held companies. She is the co-author of three books, including two biographies and a history of the performing arts in Nashville, Tennessee.
Warren G. Lichtenstein is an American businessman and philanthropist. Lichtenstein is founder and executive chairman of Steel Partners Holdings L.P. (NYSE:SPLP), a global diversified holding company. He founded the company in 1990 at the age of 24 after beginning his career as an analyst at Para Partners, L.P. and then serving as an acquisition analyst at Ballantrae Partners, L.P. Over the past 25 years Steel Partners has grown from a private investment fund, with two employees and assets of $600,000, into Steel Partners Holdings L.P., a company with a combined revenue of more than $3.6 billion that through its holdings employs 13,500 people in 155 plants and facilities in 20 countries.
Weatherford International plc, an American–Irish public limited company, together with its subsidiaries, is a multinational oilfield service company and one of the largest companies in the world in oil services. Weatherford is a company providing equipment and services used in the drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention of oil and natural gas wells. Many of the company's businesses, including those of predecessor companies, have been operating for more than 50 years.
Robert Anthony Daly is an American business executive who has led organizations such as CBS Entertainment, Warner Bros., Warner Music Group, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
J. Mack Robinson was a Georgia businessman. He led several of Atlanta's major corporations. Robinson was also a notable philanthropist who donated millions of dollars to causes in his home state and elsewhere.
Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret is a nonfiction book written by Duff Wilson, who was a reporter for the Seattle Times. The book began as a series of newspaper reports, which made the issue a "national focus".
John F. Brock, is an American businessman who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. (CCE), the world's third-largest marketer, distributor, and producers of Coca-Cola products. He has more than 25 years of experience in the beverage sales industry.
Claiborne P. Deming is an American attorney, business executive and philanthropist. He served as the president and chief executive officer of Murphy Oil from 1994 to 2008. Since 2008, he has served as its chairman. Additionally, he serves as senior advisor to TPH Partners, an energy private equity firm. As a philanthropist, he has supported public schools in Arkansas and private universities in the Southern United States.
Alan L. Boeckmann served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Fluor Corporation between 2002 and 2011. He retired from Fluor in 2012.
Mark Dalton is an American chief executive and philanthropist. He serves as the chairman and chief executive officer of the Tudor Investment Corporation.
John P. McConnell is the CEO of Worthington Industries and the son of philanthropist, Worthington Industries founder and Columbus Blue Jackets founder John H. McConnell. John P. McConnell began his career at Worthington in 1975 as a general laborer in a Louisville, Kentucky steel plant. He also worked as a sales representative for two of Worthington's divisions. McConnell served as corporate personnel director and has been instrumental in administering the company's highly recognized employee-based policies. He was appointed vice president and general manager of the company's largest steel facility in Columbus, Ohio in 1985.
Hurley Calister "Cal" Turner Jr. is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Dollar General, a chain of low-cost variety stores founded by his father, Cal Turner Sr.
Dennis C. Bottorff is an American businessman, banker and philanthropist. As chairman and chief executive officer of the First American Corporation, he was responsible for its merger with the AmSouth Bancorporation. He served as the chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority from 2010 to 2012. He is the co-founder and general partner of Council Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm based in Nashville, Tennessee. He is also the co-founder and the chairman of CapStar Bank.
Frank K. Houston (1881–1973) was an American banker and philanthropist. Born on a Southern plantation in Tennessee, he was a banking executive in Nashville, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1900s-1910s. He joined the Chemical Corn Exchange Bank in New York City in 1920, and served as its president from 1935 to 1945, and as its chairman and chief executive officer from 1945 to 1947.
Danny Garrett is a businessman and an American politician who has served District 44 in the Alabama House of Representatives since 2014. A member of the Republican Party, Garrett currently serves as the House majority whip. He represents the 44th House District in Jefferson County, which includes the cities of Trussville, Clay and portions of Pinson.