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André Esteves: No Limit to Ambition – Looking to Dominate the World
From intern to owner in barely eight years: If anything, Brazilian banker André Esteves is a financial whirlwind. After grabbing the reigns of Banco Pactual in 1997, becoming one of the bank’s five partners, he engineered its sale to Swiss
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Lady Rice: Wisdom as an Acquired Taste – A Voice of Reason
Lady Susan Rice is the first woman to head a UK clearing bank. Currently, she is managing director of Lloyds Banking Group in Scotland. Born and raised in the United States, Lady Rice now lives in Aberdeen with her husband
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James “Jamie” Dimon: How Not to Be a Good Banker
The CEO, chairman and president of JPMorgan Chase has no shortage of supporters and fans. Just two years ago, James “Jamie” Dimon was named CEO of the Year. In its All-America Executive Team Survey, Institutional Investor has placed Dimon near
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Peter Blom of Triodos Bank: The Assimilated Radical
It’s the idealists you have to look out for. The more dishonourable aspects of the financial world might have been getting a bad rap as of late, but the harm this does pales in comparison to the damage wrought by
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Mark Carney: An Admirable Mind-Set at the Bank of England
Early February, Canadian banker Mark Carney spoke before the House of Commons Treasury Committee about his new job. The hearing was but a formality. Mr Carney’s appointment as the new Governor of the Bank of England had already been announced
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Alison Cooper Calls for Realistic and Intelligent Targets
Alison Cooper is the CEO of Imperial Tobacco and her track record since taking up this office in 2010 has clearly demonstrated her leadership skills. She is carefully manoeuvring the company through the challenges the tobacco industry faces while maximising
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CFI.co Hero Mahindra on Giving in India
Anand Mahindra, born in 1955, was appointed chairman of the family conglomerate in August 2012 and has been managing director since 1997. He has been able to progress the business magnificently mainly through a succession of inspired mergers and acquisitions.
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Zhang Xin: The Sheer Scale of Achievement
Zhang Xin and her husband founded Soho – one of China’s most successful property businesses – a little less than twenty years ago. She has become one of the country’s most prominent self-made billionaires. There are thousands of Chinese entrepreneurs
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Our Hero Justina Mutale: Postive Runway
Founder and CEO of the NGO Positive Runway, Justina Mutale was admitted to the UK’s Black 100+ Hall of Fame in July last year. The project sets out to identify top black achievers in Britain and we were not at
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Taiwan’s Cher Wang: A Different Set of Challenges
Cher Wang is chairman and co-founder of Taiwan’s tech giant HTC and VIA Technologies. Wang has encountered a rather different set of challenges to most entrepreneurs as the daughter of the late Wang Yung-Ching who was one of Taiwan’s most
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