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Stephen Squeri
Stephen Squeri (born 1959) is an American business executive[3] and Chairman and CEO of American Express. He first joined American Express in 1985,[4] becoming chief information officer in 2005[2] and vice chairman in 2015,[5] along with other upper management roles.[5][6] Squeri became chairman and CEO of American Express on February 1, 2018.[5][6] He is currently chairman of the Manhattan College board of trustees,[7] a board member at the Partnership for New York City,[8] on the board of trustees of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,[9] a chair of the corporate governance committee of the Business Roundtable,[10] and member of The Business Council,[9] among other roles.[11] Early life and educationStephen "Steve" Joseph Squeri[12] was born in 1959[3] in New York City.[13] He is the grandchild of Italian and Irish immigrants. His father worked as an accountant in New York for companies such as[14] Colgate, CBS,[9] and Bloomingdale's.[14] Squeri grew up in Astoria, Queens,[13] graduating from Monsignor McClancy High School in East Elmhurst in 1977.[15] Squeri subsequently attended Manhattan College in the Bronx,[13] graduating with a bachelor of science in 1981 and an MBA in 1986.[16] CareerBeginning in 1981, Squeri spent four years as a management consultant at Arthur Andersen.[16] Squeri joined American Express in 1985 as a manager in the Travellers Cheque Group[4] and became an American Express vice president in 1990.[17] From 2000 to 2002 he served as president of the Establishment Services group in the United States and Canada,[4] and from 2002 to 2005 he was president of the Global Commercial Card division. In 2005,[18] he began serving as chief information officer of American Express.[4] He held the role until October 2009,[2] during which time he also led Corporate Development, overseeing mergers and acquisitions.[19] In 2009, he was named group president of Global Services.[2] He then served as American Express' group president of Global Corporate Services[5] until 2015. He became vice chairman of American Express in July[2] 2015,[5][3] and also began leading the business-to-business group in October 2015.[2] According to Forbes, the American Express board of directors began considering Squeri to be CEO in 2015.[20] Squeri became chairman and CEO of American Express on February 1, 2018, having been appointed by the board of directors[20] to succeed Kenneth Chenault.[19] In 2023, Squeri's total compensation at American Express was $35.6 million, representing a CEO-to-median worker pay ratio of 677-to-1.[21] Boards and committeesAfter joining the board of trustees at Manhattan College in 2013, he was named chair in 2023.[9] He is also on the board of the Partnership for New York City,[8] on the board of governors of Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School,[22] and on the board of trustees of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and The Valerie Fund.[9] He is a member of the Business Roundtable,[9] where he is chair of the corporate governance committee.[10] He is also a member of The Business Council, the American Society of Corporate Executives,[9] and the New York Jobs CEO Council.[11] Squeri previously served on the boards of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, NY Downtown Hospital, the Columbus Citizens Foundation, and J.Crew,[23] the latter of which he joined in 2010.[18] See alsoReferences
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