Sandy Weill

Sanford "Sandy" Weill spent decades in financial services, culminating with Travelers and Citicorp merging to form Citigroup in 1998.Weill's first job was a Bear Stearns runner in 1955, earning $150 a week. He formed a brokerage firm with partners, built it into Shearson Loeb Rhoads, and sold it to American Express for nearly $1 billion in 1981. Weill was CEO of Citigroup until 2003 and chairman until 2006. He is still an active investor, president of the board of trustees at Carnegie Hall and on the executive council at UC San Francisco.