Parents: Check your company - colleges of the top people

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<p>I work in a very large company of which you may posssibly be a customer. We get caught up in the eliteness of colleges, so I thought it would be interesting for parents here who are working in a company to list the colleges from which the top people graduated. I looked at my company's website and clicked on the "Exceutive Leadership" button. Below is the list. Check your company and post.</p>

<p>Chatham College
Bentley College
Providence College (CEO)
Oregon State (CTO)
Ga State
Penn State
NYU
Yale (Chief Counsel)
Lasalle (CFO)
Philadelphia University
Boston University (CIO)
Washington University (of StL, I suppose)
CUNY</p>

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<p>Are we talking graduate or undergradate or both?</p>

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<p>I did both. For example, the Chief Counsel got his undergrad at NYU and his JD from Yale.</p>

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<p>I work for a huge global company and we have no private schools for undergraduate degrees....all state schools...for our senior leadership team. Some you've never even heard of. If I have time I'll post tomorrow. If success is only to be measured by achieving to the highest level in a company (not my personal definition of success) then I've always maintained that it didn't matter where you did your undergraduate education.</p>

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<p>Our leadership is:</p>

<p>3 Washington State University (1 law school Gonzaga)
1 Evergreen State College
1 Brigham Young
1 University of Oklahoma
1 University of Washington
1 UCal-Irvine</p>

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<p>I work in a very large company that you have definitely heard of. Including advanced degrees, among our executive bios I noted the following schools:</p>

<p>1 Clarkson
1 Gannon
1 Harvard
1 Iona
1 JHU
1 Northwestern
1 Purdue
3 RPI
1 San Jose State
1 Stanford
1 St. Francis
1 St. John's
1 Syracuse
1 U Chicago
1 U Rochester
3 Union</p>

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<p>Marymount College
BS Polytechnic Institute of New York, Masters Mech Engineering Columbia
Georgetown-SFS, MA Yale
Manhattan College, JD-Bklyn Law School
Rutgers, MBA - Iona, EMBA -Columba
Dartmouth
Northeastern, U of R
University of Md, loyola
Niagra , MA- fairfeild U
Hampshire, Yale
Princeton, JD- Yale
Smmons College, Harvard</p>

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<p>Great idea for a thread. My husband works for a large company which you've probably heard of. </p>

<p>3 Wharton (undergrad)
1 Univ. of Michigan (JD)
1 Colgate
1 Harvard (MBA)
1 Johns Hopkins
1 NYU (JD)
1 Swarthmore
1 Univ. of Pennsylvania (JD)
1 Univ. of Toronto</p>

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<p>In addition to knowing where the leadership in your company received their undergraduate education it would be helpful to know where your company is based.</p>

<p>I can't really respond as I am my own company.</p>

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<p>Xerox(I'm not the employee - but they put food on my table):</p>

<p>Chairman and CEO
BA English/journalism Marymount College</p>

<p>President
BS Polytechnic Institute of NY
MS Mech. Eng. Columbia</p>

<p>Corp Exec VP
Bachelor's International Economics, Georgetown University and MBA, Yale </p>

<p>Corp Exec VP and CFO
BS Finance, New York University
MBA Adelphi University</p>

<p>Corp Senior VP Global Accts
BS Economics, Manhattan College </p>

<p>Corp Senior VP Marketing
BA Political Science, Rutgers University</p>

<p>Corp VP Developing Markets
Finance and Business, Lille University in France</p>

<p>Corp Senior VP, Chief Staff Officer
BA, BS and MS engineering, Dartmouth College</p>

<p>Corp Senior VP
BA History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, and MBA Harvard</p>

<p>Corp Senior VP, President Europe
MS Information Technology and Electronics Engineering, Technical University of Lisbon</p>

<p>Corp VP, Production Systems
BS Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University and MBA University of Rochester</p>

<p>Corp VP, Strategic Services
BA Finance, HEAO in Zwolle, Netherlands and MBA, Delta University in Utrecht, Netherlands</p>

<p>Corp VP, US Solutions
BS Economics, University of Maryland and MBA, Loyola College in Baltimore</p>

<p>Corp VP, Strategic Initiatives
BS Business, Niagara University and MA Communications, Fairfield University</p>

<p>Corp VP, Global Services
Mechanical engineering from Thames Valley University, U.K</p>

<p>Corporate VP, Worldwide Taxes
BA business administration, University of Georgia and MBA, Duke University </p>

<p>Corp VP, Miscellaneous stuff
BS mathematics and electrical engineering, University of Rochester</p>

<p>Corp VP, Miscellaneous stuff
BA Economics, North Carolina State University and MBA Columbia University</p>

<p>Corp VP, Miscellaneous stuff
BA, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta</p>

<p>Chief Accounting Officer
Bachelor's accounting and MBA University of Bridgeport (Conn.)</p>

<p>Corp VP, Miscellaneous stuff
BS mechanical engineering, Manhattan College and MS engineering and operations research, University of Texas at Austin</p>

<p>Corp VP, Investor Relations
Bachelor's business administration, Gettysburg College</p>

<p>Corp VP, Finance
BS Accounting and MBA, Clarkson University.</p>

<p>CIO
Bachelor's behavioral psychology, Hampshire College, and MBA Yale University</p>

<p>Deputy General Counsel
BA politics, Princeton and juris doctor degree, Yale Law School</p>

<p>Corp VP, Chief Human Resources & Ethics
BA mathematics and MA philosophy, Fordham</p>

<p>Corp VP, Treasurer
BA communications and Spanish, Simmons College and MBA Harvard</p>

<p>Corp VP, Controller
BA SUNY Binghamton and MBA Virginia Polytechnic Institute</p>

<p>Corp VP, Chief Technology Officer
MS electro-mechanical engineering, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, and Ph.D. electrical engineering, Cornell University</p>

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<p>3 Brown undergrad - one with HBS (new york)</p>

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<p>Yale, Stanford, Harvard
MIT
Harvard
MIT
Beijing, MIT
Houston
Dartmouth, Harvard
Harvard
Columbia
Yale, Penn</p>

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<p>My employer (this was the only bio I could find):</p>

<p>President - Master's degree, University of Montana and a bachelor's degree from MacMurray College, Jacksonville</p>

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<p>This was interesting. Company is international, but this is only the USA division. There are still a number of foreign schools and foreigners represented (and a few with no school listed). The main thing I learned through this exercise is that if you consider Upper Management the epitome of success, go into sales.</p>

<p>Corporate Level:</p>

<p>President and Chief Executive Officer
Virginia Tech </p>

<p>Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Marketing
U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Master's Degree in English from Indiana University</p>

<p>Senior Vice President, Human Resources
University of Pretoria - University of South Africa.</p>

<p>Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(foreign)
MBA- Mercer University</p>

<p>Vice President, Strategy
University of Kaiserslautern </p>

<p>Division -- President and CEOs</p>

<p>Ohio State University - Northwestern University
Union College
Brooklyn College
Trinity College
Australian National University
Georgia Institute of Technology - Boston University
University of Dortmund in Germany - University of Utah
Rutgers University
Technical University of Erlangen/Nuremberg, Germany
Old Dominion University
University of Munster in Munster, Germany
Lehigh University
University of Manchester, England - Harvard Business School
Pace University
University of Kentucky
Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich</p>

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<p>Small company that sells bicycle supplies over the internet: principals include RPI graduate, RPI dropout, MIT graduate. Staff includes a Reed Theater/Lit major, a Wesleyan English major, several college dropouts, several University of Oregon graduates, and a UMinn graduate.</p>

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<p>Chairman and CEO -BS Cal State Hayward (Now Cal State East Bay)<br>
Vice Chairman and CTO -BSEE India Institute of Technology, MSEE University of Hawaii, MSCS and Phd CS Carnigie Mellon
COO -BSCE McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
EVP -BA North Staffordshire University England, UK
EVP -BSCS University of Paisley in Scotland, MSEd Jordanhill College in Glasgow, Scotland, MSIS Pace University in New York.
EVP -none
VP -BSEE Rice, MSEE Stanford</p>

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<p>This was interesting, actually:</p>

<p>CEO/Founder - BS U of Tennessee; MBA Wake Forest University
President - St. Norbert College
CFO - BS, MBA Cornell University
EVP - BA Western Maryland College, MBA George Washington University
EVP - BS College of William and Mary; UVA School of Law
EVP - Clarkson College of Technology
EVP - Ohio Northern University; MBA Case Western Reserve</p>

<p>Just one Ivy League degree among the top executives - in a Fortune 300 company with over 20,000 employees worldwide (though this is primarily a tech company - and in we're in the west.)</p>

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<p>This should be a must read for every kid who equates college name of undergraduate with future success. I went deeper for variety, it is interesting. Fortune 50 multi-national company headquarted in midwest - undergraduate degrees:</p>

<p>Corporate Leadership
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Beloit
St. John's (Minnesota)
University of Southern California
St. Ambrose University
Ohio University
Carnegie-Mellon
Clarion
Duquesne
Penn State
University of Bombay
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Doctorate - Bonn University
Paolo Frisi Institute (Italy)
McMaster University (Canada)
Western Illinois University
DePaul</p>

<p>Divisional Leadership
Western Michigan
University of Michigan
Saginaw Valley
6 with undergraduate at Michigan State
Bowling Green State U
University of Toledo</p>

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<p>According to the bios of the top people in my Big 4 accounting firm: </p>

<p>the CEO went to Utah State and Bentley College, </p>

<p>the U.S. managing partner went to Brooklyn College and NYU, and </p>

<p>the chairperson of the board (funny they still call her chairman) went to Idaho State.</p>

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<p>Foreign Private Company (US Corporate)</p>

<p>Harvard
MIT
Auburn
Santa Clara U
U of Illinois
Johns Hopkins
Virginia Tech</p>