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Richard Fairbank (rugby League)
Richard Dana Fairbank (born September 18, 1950) is an American billionaire businessman who co-founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1988. He previously served on the board of directors of MasterCard, MasterCard International from 2004 through 2006. He is a member of the Stanford Business School advisory council, the Financial Services Roundtable, and the board of directors of the BITS Technology Forum. Fairbank has been awarded "Business Leader of the Year" by ''Washingtonian (magazine), Washingtonian'', and placed on lists including Worth (magazine), Worth's list of the top 10 CEOs and "50 Best CEOs". Education Fairbank enrolled at Pomona College before transferring to Stanford University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford University in 1972. He later earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1981, where he graduated first in his class. He also received the Excellence in Leadership award from Stanford University in 2006. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", " Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |