Amadeo Pietro Giannini
Amadeo Pietro Giannini was an American banker who founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco in 1904, which eventually became Bank of America. He is recognized as a pioneer of modern consumer banking, known for extending financial services to middle-class Americans and immigrants rather than only the wealthy. He grew Bank of America into the world's largest bank during his lifetime and pioneered practices such as statewide branch banking, holding company structures, and consumer installment loans.
“Stan Shih (Acer), Amadeo Giannini (Bank of America), Larry Hillblom (DHL), George Eastman (Kodak), Fred Smith (FedEx), Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Carlos Slim (América Móvil), Jorge Paulo Lemann (3G Capital), Aristotle Onassis (Olympic Maritime), Harland David Sanders (KFC), James Dyson, Lorenzo Zambrano (CEMEX), Jim Casey (UPS), Li Ka-Shing (CK Hutchison), Frank Lowy (Westfield), Alfred Krupp all lost parents in childhood or adolescence.”
Source→“"In 1904, he founded the institution that would become Bank of America."”
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