Ken Chenault
Kenneth I. Chenault is Chairman and Managing Director of the venture capital firm General Catalyst, a position he has held since 2018. He is best known for his 37-year career at American Express, where he served as Chairman and CEO from 2001 to 2018 and became the third Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Berkshire Hathaway, and the Harvard Corporation, among others.
“Ken Chenault — Former CEO of American Express; Chairman of General Catalyst; Cited as a model for the kind of institutional leadership GC is deliberately building around”
“I've been very fortunate to have Ken Chenault as our chairman. Ken joined in 2018 and he's been really deeply working on not only creating succession in the business, but help us think through architecturally what does this ecosystem look like?”
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