UC MagazineUniversity of CincinnatiUC Magazine

UC Magazine

Alumni who oversaw major corporations in '02

Figures are for 17 UC alumni who headed publicly traded companies with more than $150 million in annual sales, as listed in the 2002 Corporation Affiliation Directory.

Director Myron Ullman III, BusAd '69
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, San Francisco
$10 billion in sales, 38,282 employees

Chairman S. Jay Stewart, Eng '61
Autoliv, Stockholm, Sweden
$3.9 billion in sales, 28,000 employees

Co-president S. Craig Lindner, BusAd '77
American Financial Group, Cincinnati
$3.9 billion in sales, 10,000 employees

CFO Richard Thornburgh, BusAd '74
Credit Suisse First Boston, New York, NY
$13.9 billion revenue, 17,644 employees

Chairman, CEO Ralph Hake, BusAd '71
Maytag Corp., Newton, Iowa
$4.3 billion in sales, 21,581 employees

President, COO Craig Muhlhauser, Eng '71, '75
Exide Corp., Reading, Pa.
$2.2 billion in sales, 16,333 employees

Chair, president, CEO Jack Michaels, Eng '60
HON Industries, Muscantine, Iowa
$2 billion in sales, 10,000 employees

Senior VP, CEO Gregory Geswein, BusAd '77, '78
Diebold, North Canton, Ohio
$1.8 billion in sales, 12,674 employees

President, CEO Robert Nugent Jr., BusAd ’64
Jack in the Box, San Diego, Calif.
$1.8 billion in sales, 40,000 employees

Chair, pres., CEO Ronald Brown, RWC ’73, BusAd ’75Milacron, Cincinnati
$1.6 billion in sales, 10,922 employees

Chairman Phillip Yeager, A&S ’51
Hub Gro
up, Lombard, Ill.
$1.4 billion in sales, 1,540 employees

President, CEO John Barrett, BusAd ’71
Western-Southern Life Insurance, Cincinnati
$1 billion in sales, 5,000 employees

President, CEO Dane Miller, Eng ’71, ’74
Biomet, Warsaw, Ind
$1 billion in sales, 4,420 employees

Founder, chairman Richard Schiewetz, Eng ’36
Primus, Dayton, Ohio
$860 million in sales, 2,500 employees

Chairman Michael Rose, BusAd ’63
Gaylord Entertainment Co., Nashville, Tenn.
$325 million in sales, 4,800 employees

President, COO Terry Persinger, Eng ’68
Mannatech, Dallas, Texas
$180 million in sales, 337 employees

Chairman, CEO Candace Kendle, Pharm ’70, ’72
Kendle International, Cincinnati
$154 million in sales, 1,525 employees

Related stories
See list of UC salumni world business leaders from 2009.
See list of UC salumni world business leaders from 2007.