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Xerox
COMPANY
Technology company founded in 1906 as the Haloid Company, and renamed to Xerox in 1961. Specializes in document processing, particularly manufacturing copiers, printers, etc.
Official Website:
http://www.xerox.com/
Ticker:
NYSE:XRX
Corporate headquarters:
Stamford, CT
Sales:
$14.7B (2003)
Employees:
61000 (2003)
EXECUTIVES
CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Paul Allaire |
Business |
21-Jul-1938 |
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Twice CEO of Xerox |
| John Bardeen |
Physicist |
23-May-1908 |
30-Jan-1991 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| William F. Buehler |
Business |
c. 1949 |
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Vice Chairman of Xerox, 1999-2001 |
| Bobby Ray Inman |
Military |
4-Apr-1931 |
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Admiral, NSA Director, Deputy CIA Director |
| Vernon Jordan |
Business |
15-Aug-1935 |
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Advisor to Bill Clinton |
| David T. Kearns |
Business |
11-Aug-1930 |
25-Feb-2011 |
CEO of Xerox, 1985-91 |
| Yotaro Kobayashi |
Business |
25-Apr-1933 |
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CEO of Fuji Xerox, Ltd. |
| Ralph S. Larsen |
Business |
c. 1939 |
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CEO of Johnson & Johnson, 1989-2002 |
| Sol Linowitz |
Business |
17-Dec-1913 |
18-Mar-2005 |
Negotiated return of the Panama Canal |
| John Macomber |
Business |
13-Jan-1928 |
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JDM Investment Group |
| George J. Mitchell |
Politician |
20-Aug-1933 |
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US Senator from Maine, 1980-95 |
| Anne M. Mulcahy |
Business |
21-Oct-1952 |
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CEO of Xerox, 2001-09 |
| John E. Pepper, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1938 |
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Chairman of Disney |
| Arthur Rock |
Business |
19-Aug-1926 |
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Coined term "Venture Capitalism" |
| Patricia F. Russo |
Business |
1953 |
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CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, 2006-08 |
| Martha R. Seger |
Government |
17-Feb-1932 |
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Federal Reserve Governor, 1984-91 |
| William E. Simon |
Government |
27-Nov-1927 |
3-Jun-2000 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1974-77 |
| Robert S. Strauss |
Diplomat |
19-Oct-1918 |
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US Ambassador to Russia, 1991-92 |
| Thomas C. Theobald |
Business |
5-May-1937 |
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CEO of Continental Bank, 1987-94 |
NOTABLE EMPLOYEES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Alan Kay |
Computer Programmer |
17-May-1940 |
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Father of Object-Oriented Programming |
| Ralph Merkle |
Scientist |
2-Feb-1952 |
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Public key cryptographer |
| Bob Metcalfe |
Business |
1946 |
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Co-Inventor of Ethernet |
EMPLOYMENT
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Robert Asprin |
Author |
28-Jun-1946 |
22-May-2008 |
Thieves World |
| Steve Capps |
Computer Programmer |
? |
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Apple Newton, SoundEdit |
| Chester Carlson |
Inventor |
8-Feb-1906 |
19-Sep-1968 |
Invented Xerography |
| Leon G. Cooperman |
Business |
c. 1943 |
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Omega Advisors, Inc. |
| Erroll B. Davis, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1943 |
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Chancellor, University System of Georgia |
| Floyd H. Flake |
Politician |
30-Jan-1945 |
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Congressman from New York, 1987-97 |
| Chuck Geschke |
Business |
11-Sep-1939 |
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Co-Founder of Adobe |
| Phil Karlton |
Computer Programmer |
28-Feb-1947 |
20-Jun-1997 |
Netscape Principal Curmudgeon |
| Robert Kiyosaki |
Author |
8-Apr-1947 |
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad |
| Scott A. McGregor |
Business |
c. 1957 |
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CEO of Broadcom |
| Timothy Mott |
Business |
c. 1949 |
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Co-Founder of Macromedia |
| Michael Nutter |
Politician |
29-Jun-1957 |
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Mayor of Philadelphia |
| Deborah D. Rieman |
Business |
c. 1951 |
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CEO of CheckPoint Software, 1995-99 |
| Thomas O. Ryder |
Business |
c. 1944 |
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CEO of Readers Digest, 1998-2005 |
| Eric Schmidt |
Business |
27-Apr-1955 |
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CEO of Google, 2001-11 |
| Charles Simonyi |
Computer Programmer |
10-Sep-1948 |
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Hungarian notation |
| Pradeep Sindhu |
Business |
1953 |
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Co-Founder of Juniper Networks |
| Stephanie A. Streeter |
Business |
c. 1957 |
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CEO of Banta Corporation, 2002-07 |
| Bert Sutherland |
Engineer |
1936 |
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Scientist at Sun Microsystems |
| Bryan Uyesugi |
Criminal |
1959 |
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Shot 7 Xerox coworkers to death in Honolulu |
| John Warnock |
Computer Programmer |
6-Oct-1940 |
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Co-Founder of Adobe |
| Terry Winograd |
Scientist |
24-Feb-1946 |
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Understanding Natural Language |
| Niklaus Wirth |
Computer Programmer |
15-Feb-1934 |
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Inventor of Pascal, Modula-2 |
EXTRANEOUS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John Diebold |
Author |
8-Jun-1926 |
26-Dec-2005 |
Advocate of automation |
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