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Kenneth Irvine Chenault is an American business executive. He has been the CEO and Chairman of American Express since 2001. He is the third... African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Chenault grew up on Long Island, New York as the son of a dentist and dental hygienist. He attended the alternative Waldorf School of Garden City, where he served as senior class president. He then received B.A. in history from Bowdoin College in 1973, and juris doctor from Harvard Law School in 1976. After Harvard, he worked as an associate at the law firm Rogers & Wells in New York City, and as a consultant for Bain & Company. He joined American Express in 1981, working in the Strategic Planning Group. He became president and chief operating officer in 1997. He became CEO of American Express in 2001. While CEO of American Express in 2007, Chenault earned a total compensation of $50,126,585, and in 2008, he earned a total compensation of $42,752,461. In 2009, he earned a total compensation of $16,617,639, which included a base salary of $1,201,923, a cash bonus of $10,450,000, an option grant of $3,985,637, and other compensation worth $980,079.
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Joan Edelman Spero is President of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Lorenzo Hormisdas Zambrano Treviño is the Chairman and CEO of Cemex, one of the largest global building-materials companies in the world.... CEMEX's stock is traded on the Mexican Stock Exchange and listed on the New York Stock Exchange . Zambrano was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Tecnológico de Monterrey in 1966 and an MBA from Stanford Business School in 1968. In 1968 he joined CEMEX, a cement company founded in 1906. He was named CEO in 1985 and has also served as Chairman of the Board since 1995. He is a member of the IBM Board of Directors and the Citigroup International Advisory Board. He is also Chairman of the Board of Sistema Tecnológico de Monterrey, the leading private University in Latin America. In recognition of his business and philanthropic record, Mr. Zambrano has earned a number of prestigious honors such as the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, the Americas Society's Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, the Excellence in Leadership Award from the Stanford Graduate Business School, and the Ernest C.
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