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Glen Moreno is chairman of Pearson, deputy chairman of the Financial Reporting Council and a director of Fidelity International. Until May 2012 he was deputy chairman and senior independent director of Lloyds Banking Group. Until mid 2009 he was senior independent director of Man Group plc and acting chairman of UKFI. From 1987 to 1991 he was chief executive of Fidelity International. Before that he was a group executive at Citigroup, where he spent 18 years in Europe and Asia. He is a governor of The Ditchley Foundation and a director of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. World renowned Pearson PLC’s web site highlights three major...
In his 28 years as CEO of Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp has been widely recognized as a pioneer in harnessing market forces for environmental ends, starting with the 1990 market-based acid rain reduction plan praised by The Economist as the decade’s “greatest green success story.” Krupp also broke new ground by engaging companies to improve environmental performance. EDF’s partnerships with FedEx, McDonald’s, Walmart and others have developed hybrid electric delivery trucks, eliminated millions of pounds of packaging waste and improved energy efficiency. EDF accepts no contributions from its corporate partners. In 2011, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu appointed Krupp...
Colony Capital, LLC is a privately held independent global real estate investment firm founded in 1991 by Thomas J. Barrack, Jr. The Firm and its affiliates have an extensive global footprint and corresponding infrastructure, with over 400 employees operating in a total of 12 offices in the following nine countries: China, France, Italy, Lebanon, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Over the past 21 years, Colony has established 44 investment vehicles, including global investment funds, dedicated regional investment funds and investment-specific co-investment vehicles, raising an aggregate of approximately $19 billion of equity capital, which has been invested...
This interview was a rare and inspirational privilege to speak with world-renowned psychologist and Stanford Emeritus Professor Phil Zimbardo (most recently Founder and President of the Heroic Imagination Project), together with Brooke Deterline, Director of Corporate Consulting for the Heroic Imagination Project. The central theme: How Dr. Zimbardo’s over 40 years of ground-breaking and history-changing research on how good people can become susceptible to engaging in evil conduct applies in contemporary organizations and society – and how individuals can face challenging situations and systems that drive many toward evil but now act with courage or “contemporary heroism.” How can heroes...
Guerrino De Luca is chairman of the board and chief executive office of Logitech since July 2011. He was Logitech’s president and chief executive office from 1998 to 2007, and its chairman from 2008 to 2011. During his tenure as Logitech’s executive leader, the company posted nine consecutive years of record sales and profits as its annual revenue went from $400 million to more than $2.1 billion, and its operating profit grew from $16 million to more than $230 million. Prior to joining Logitech, Mr. De Luca served as executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Apple Computer, Inc. He...