James D. Robinson III

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James Dixon Robinson III (born 1930) was the chief executive officer of American Express Co. from 1977 until his retirement from that company in 1993. He is a 1957 graduate of Georgia Tech's School of Industrial Management where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. While with American Express, Mr. Robinson played a prominent role in the RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout battle as chronicled in the book Barbarians at the Gate (1991) by Bryan Burrough. Former Senator Fred Thompson played Robinson in the 1993 movie.

James D. Robinson III has been a director of The Coca-Cola Company since 1975. Mr. Robinson is a general partner and co-founder of RRE Ventures, a private information technology venture investment firm, and president of J.D. Robinson, Inc., a strategic consulting firm. He is non-executive chairman of the Board of Directors for Bristol-Myers Squibb and has been a member of its Board since 1976. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of First Data Corporation and Novell Inc., and is honorary chairman of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is a member of the Business Council and the Council on Foreign Relations, and an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution. In previous years, he served as co-chairman of the Business Roundtable and chairman of the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations.

Robinson and two of his partners at RRE, James D. Robinson IV and Richard McGinn, are all members of Augusta National Golf Club.

Preceded by
???		 CEO of American Express
1977-1993		 Succeeded by
Harvey Golub
American Express
v • d • e
Payment Products: Credit cards • Charge cards • Traveler's cheques • Centurion Card • Red Card • ExpressPay
Magazines: Travel + Leisure • Food & Wine • Departures Magazine • Executive Travel
Spun-off companies: Ameriprise Financial • First Data Corp. • Lehman Brothers • American Railway Express Agency • Merchants Despatch 
Notable Current & Former Executives: Henry Wells • William Fargo • J.C. Fargo • Ralph Reed • James D. Robinson III • Lou Gerstner • Sandy Weill • Harvey Golub • Ken Chenault • Gary Crittenden

Corporate Directors: Ken Chenault (Chairman) • Daniel Akerson • Charlene Barshefsky • Ursula Burns • Peter Chernin • Vernon Jordan, Jr. • Jan Leschly • Rick Levin • Richard McGinn • Edward Miller • Frank Popoff • Robert Walter • Ron Williams

Other: Amex Bank of Canada • The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman • World Monuments Watch • The Great Salad Oil Swindle

Annual Revenue: $24.27 billion USD ( 10% FY 2005) | Employees: 65,800 | Stock Symbol: NYSE: AXP | Website: www.americanexpress.com


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