Don H. Barden started up his first business with only $500 and a dogged determination to control his destiny; in the 1960s, using an instinctive entrepreneurial acumen, he opened a record store.
Jason Flom is the current CEO
Mr. Julian C. Day is Chairman and CEO
Freston was appointed CEO of MTV in 1987.
Raymond Los, who is the CEO / Founder of Hamptons Entertainment, Inc. is the new owner and CEO of Motown Records & Motown Record Corporation.
In 2000, when then-CEO David Drury vacated his position to concentrate on his duties as chairman, Griswell was promoted to the CEO position and then became chairman in 2002.
Barden Companies, 1994-, CEO.
Barden Cablevision, 1982-1994, CEO
Born: December 20, 1943
Born: December 20, 1943, in Detroit, Michigan.
Family: Son of Milton Barden (mechanic and auto laborer) and Hortense (maiden name unknown); married Bella Marshall (Barden Companies' president and COO); children: one.
Barrett was born and raised in County Kerry, Ireland, where his father struggled to make a living as a musician playing in local dance halls in the 1950s.
Education: Attended Central State University, 1963-1964.
Born in 1946, Barth joined Johnson Controls just a few years after his completion of schooling at Carnegie Tech. His first position with the company was as an industrial engineer in 1969.
Arpey was a one-company employee, and his relationship with aviation was both personal and professional. He hailed from an airline-industry family--his father was a career airline employee and an executive with Texas Air.
Anderson was born and raised in Galveston, Texas. After his parents died when he was 19, Anderson put himself through college and law school by working as a laborer in the building and construction industries.
As a girl, Barrett was fascinated with the law and worked as a legal secretary for an uncle. She could not afford to attend law school, however, so she went to a junior college in her home state of Vermont.
Jeff Bezos was a gifted child; at the age of three, tired of sleeping in a crib, he found a screwdriver and took the crib apart. He subsequently tinkered with models and with a Radio Shack electronics kit.