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Robert W. Selander was the President and Chief Executive Officer of MasterCard until 1st Jult 2010 when he was succeeded by Ajay Benga. He had held... this position since April 1997. Before that he spent 20 years with Citibank, where he developed their global branch network and managed Citibank’s Diners Club International credit card business throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Selander earned his undergraduate degree in industrial engineering from Cornell University in 1972 and was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School. In 2005 Selander was presented with a Doctor of International Business Honoris Causa from Richmond The American International University in London. In February 2006, Selander had surgery for prostate cancer, which delayed the initial public offering of Mastercard.
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Paul Grattan Kirk, Jr. is an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 2009 to 2010, having been... appointed to fill the vacancy created by the death of Ted Kennedy. From 1985 to 1989, he served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee . He has also served as the co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates, the chairman of the board of directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and a member of the board of directors of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. Kirk, one of five children, was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He is the son of Josephine Elizabeth and Judge Paul Grattan Kirk, Sr., an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. His father was of Irish and English descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. He attended The Roxbury Latin School and graduated from St. Sebastian's School in 1956, Harvard College in 1960, and Harvard Law School in 1964, and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1965. In 1974, he married Gail Loudermilk. The couple have no children.
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Haywood Patrick Swygert was the president of Howard University in Washington, DC from 1995 until 2008. Swygert graduated from Howard University in... 1965, the same year President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his historic speech to the graduating class. He later received a J.D. degree from Howard University Law School. Formerly president of the State University of New York at Albany, Swygert previously served as executive vice president of Temple University, where he was also a professor of law in the Temple University School of Law. He is a law professor, member of the Commission on Presidential Elections, Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity, Zeta Phi Chapter and Omega Psi Phi, Alpha Chapter. Swygert resigned as president of Howard University effective June 30, 2008.
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