Stephen Sadove is an American businessman.Forbes
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/ref> He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of

Saks Incorporated Saks, Inc. (originally Proffitt's, Inc.) was an American holding company founded in 1919. Before acquisition by the Canadian-founded Hudson's Bay Company in 2013, it held ownership of department store chains including New York City-based Saks Fi ...

.Saks Board of Directors
Colgate-Palmolive Board of Directors
/ref>Ruby Tuesday Board of Directors
/ref>Adam Bryant

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Biography

Early life

His father worked for the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...

. He graduated from

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

in 1973, and received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Career

From 1975 to 1991, he worked for

General Foods General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the United States by Charles William Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895. The company changed its name to "General Foods" in 1929, after several corporate ...

. He served as president of

Clairol Clairol is the American personal care-product division of company Wella, specializing in hair coloring and hair care. Clairol was founded in 1931 by Americans Joan Gelb and her husband Lawrence M. Gelb, with business partner and lifelong frien ...

from 1991 to 1995, where he was responsible for Worldwide Clairol's performance in Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. He was president of Worldwide Beauty Care from 1995 to 1998, senior vice president of

Bristol-Myers Squibb The Bristol Myers Squibb Company (BMS) is an American multinational pharmaceutical company. Headquartered in New York City, BMS is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies and consistently ranks on the ''Fortune'' 500 list of the lar ...

Company and president of Worldwide Beauty Care and Nutritionals from 1998 to September 2000, and senior vice president of Bristol-Myers Squibb and president of Bristol-Myers Squibb Worldwide Beauty Care from 1996 to January 2002. From January 2002 to March 2004, he served as vice chairman of Saks. He has been CEO since January 2006 and chairman since May 2007. He serves as chairman of the board of directors and executive committee of the

National Retail Federation The National Retail Federation (NRF) is the world's largest retail trade association. Its members include department stores, specialty, discount, catalog, Internet, and independent retailers, chain restaurants, grocery stores, and multi-level ma ...

. He served on the board of

EQ Office EQ Office is a real estate investment company that owns 80 office properties comprising 40 million square feet. The company is owned by funds managed by The Blackstone Group. The company was formerly known as Equity Office. History The company w ...

. He now sits on the board of directors of Colgate-Palmolive and the restaurant chain Ruby Tuesday. He served as a chairman of the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York and he sits on the board of trustees of his alma mater, Hamilton College.Hamilton College Board of Directors
/ref> He has also given lectures to students in the M.B.A. program at the Columbia Business School.

Personal life

He has admitted to using playing

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

as a networking tool.

References

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