Here are Treasury & Risk Management's picks of the 100 men and women who, by example and action, define the future of finance and help shape the daily lives of financial professionals. The obvious name we omitted was ex-Enron Corp. CFO Andrew Fastow, but at least a third of the names on this list might not be there were it not for him. The unanimous choices for No. 1 and 2: Messrs. Sarbanes and Oxley.
CORPORATE GOVERNORS
Redefining business as usual for Corporate America
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U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee
U.S. Rep. Mike Oxley, R-Ohio, Chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services
Douglas Carmichael, Chief Auditor, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and former Baruch College accounting professor
William Donaldson, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Dick Grasso, Chairman and CEO, New York Stock Exchange
Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board
Robert Greifeld, President and CEO, Nasdaq
Robert Herz, Chairman, Financial Accounting Standards Board
Jim Leisenring, Member, International Accounting Standards Board and former Member, Financial Accounting Standards Board
William McDonough, Chairman nominee, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and outgoing President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General
Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation, the body overseeing the IASB
THE CFOs
Strategists for a transparent Corporate America
Robert Blakely, EVP and CFO, MCI
Richard Bressler, EVP and CFO, Viacom Inc.
John Devine, Vice Chairman and CFO, General Motors Corp.
John Faraci, President and former CFO, International Paper Co.
David FitzPatrick, EVP and CFO, Tyco International Ltd.
John Joyce, SVP and CFO, IBM Corp.
Christine Mead, SVP, CFO and Secretary, Safeco Corp.
Heidi Miller, EVP and CFO, Bank One Corp.
Jeff Misner, SVP and CFO, Continental Airlines Inc.
Indra Nooyi, President and CFO, PepsiCo Inc.
Stephen Patrick, CFO, Colgate-Palmolive Co.
J. Pedro Reinhard, EVP and CFO, Dow Chemical Co.
Robert Ryan, SVP and CFO, Medtronic Inc.
James Schneider, SVP and CFO, Dell Computer Corp.
Thomas Schoewe, EVP and CFO, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
David Shedlarz, EVP and CFO, Pfizer Inc.
Keith Sherin, SVP and CFO, General Electric Co.
Stephen Swad, EVP and CFO, America Online Inc.
Robert Wayman, EVP and CFO, Hewlett-Packard Co.
TREASURERS & CONTROLLERS
Balancing tactical and strategic, they are becoming the players to watch next
Phil Ameen, VP and Controller, General Electric Co.
Frank Brod, VP and Controller, Dow Chemical Co.
Brent Callinicos, VP and Treasurer, Microsoft Corp.
Martina Hund-Mejean, SVP and Treasurer, Tyco International Inc.
Dave Holland, Corporate Treasurer, Cisco Systems Inc.
Scott Krenz, VP and Treasurer, EDS Corp.
Gerry Laderman, SVP and Treasurer, Continental Airlines Inc.
Malcolm MacDonald, VP and Treasurer, Ford Motor Co.
Christine McCarthy, SVP and Treasurer, Walt Disney Co.
Frank Risch, VP and Treasurer, ExxonMobil
James Terrell, VP and Controller, Georgia-Pacific Corp.
Mary Winston, VP and Controller, Visteon Corp.
CASH GURUS AND GEEKS
Taking the mystery out of cash flow and consolidation
Ranjana Clark, head of treasury services division, Wachovia
Ken Dummitt, President, SunGard Treasury Systems
Paul Galant, global head of cash management, Citigroup
Geoff Garden, head of global cash management, U.S., Deutsche Bank
Lori Hricik, EVP and head of cash management, JP Morgan Chase
Regina Liang Muehlhauser, head of cash management, Bank of America
Bob Novaria, Treasurer, BP America
Jiro Okochi, CEO and Founder, Reval
Sanjiv Sanghvi, SVP and head of treasury services, Wells Fargo
Hans-Dieter Scheuermann, SVP, Financials Business Unit, SAP
Doug Spickler, Domestic Cash Manager, UPS Inc.
Jeff Weisberg, CEO, FXall
Simon Wilson-Taylor, head of Global Link, State Street's online trading platform
MARKET MOVERS and SHAPERS
Providing the tools and thinking that keep the markets working
Michael Bloomberg, Founder, Bloomberg LP and Mayor, New York City
Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Bennett J. Goodman, Chairman, Merchant Banking and Leveraged Finance, Credit Suisse First Boston
Bill Gross, portfolio manager, Pacific Investment Management Co.
Alan Schwartz, President and Co-COO, Bear Stearns Companies Inc.
Stephen Schwarzman, President and CEO, Blackstone Group
Glenn Stewart, head of loan syndicate, Bank of America Securities
Ravi Suria, analyst, Duquesne Capital Management
Bruce Wasserstein, CEO, Lazard Inc.
Jeff Zajkowski, head of equity convertibles for North America, JP Morgan Chase
RISK MANAGERS
Reminding Corporate America to think beyond the quarter
Richard Apostolik, President and CEO, Global Association of Risk Professionals
Michael Chagares, head of business risk consulting, Marsh Inc.
Greg Flood, EVP and COO, National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, a unit of AIG
Paul Robillard, Treasurer, Hydro-Quebec
Ty Sagalow, EVP and COO, AIG eBusiness Risk Solutions
POLITICOSs
Helping out and getting in the way
Peter Fisher, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, U.S. Treasury
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Chairman, Senate Finance Committee
Rep. Melissa Hart, R-Penn., Member, House Financial Services Committee and sponsor of Check 21
Pam Olson, Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, U.S. Treasury
Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee
George K. Yin, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation
Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative
CORPORATE MOUTHPIECES
Perfecting the art of persuasion from a corporate perspective
Bill Archer, Senior Policy Advisor, PricewaterhouseCoopers and former Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee
David Boies, Partner, Boies Schiller & Flexner
Nick Calio, Senior Vice President, Global Government Affairs, Citigroup and former director of White House Office of Legislative Affairs for the Bush Administration
Dorothy Coleman, Director, Tax Policy, National Association of Manufacturers
Janice Gregory, Vice President, ERISA Industry Committee
James A. Kaitz, President and CEO, Association for Financial Professionals
Kenneth Kies, Managing Director, Federal Policy Group, a unit of Clark/Bardes Consulting
Jeff Peck, Partner, Griffin Johnson Dover & Stewart
Colleen Sayther, President and CEO of Financial Executives International
WATCHDOGS AND GADFLIES
The corporate consciences on finance even before Sarbanes-Oxley
John C. Bogle, Founder, The Vanguard Group
Fred R. Buenrostro Jr., CEO, California Public Employees' Retirement System
Jamie Heard, CEO, Institutional Shareholder Services
Arthur Levitt, Author and former Chairman, SEC and the American Stock Exchange
Nell Minow, Editor, The Corporate Library and shareholder activist
William C. Thompson Jr., New York City Comptroller
Melvyn Weiss, Senior Partner, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach
ACADEMICS
Redefining the box for Corporate America
Charles Elson, Professor of Law, University of Delaware and Director, the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance
Martin Feldstein, Professor of Economics, Harvard University and President, National Bureau of Economic Research
R. Glenn Hubbard, Professor of Economics, Columbia University and former Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisers
Baruch Lev, Professor of Accounting and Finance, New York University's Stern School of Business and Director of the Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research
William Sharpe, Nobel-prize winning economist, founder of Financial Engines and Professor of Finance Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business
Robert J. Shiller, Author of Irrational Exuberance and Professor of Economics, Yale University
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