"EDS has seen no slowdown in our overall market," Chairman Richard Brown said in the earnings statement.
Often the overall bosses, chairmen and chief general managers, as chief executives of banks used to be called, were paid far less than the bonus boys on the trading floor.
"Alan Greenspan's overall record as chairman of the Federal Reserve has been one of distinction," Mr. Kerry said.
Making up the top 10 new entries are influential venture capitalist Patrick McKenna (number nine overall); Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson, bouncing back after a difficult 2007 (20); and culture secretary Andy Burnham (22).
"Oracle's unsolicited offer for PeopleSoft will only destroy value for our companies' shareholders, customers and employees and the technology community overall," Bob Dutkowsky, the chairman and chief executive of J. D. Edwards, said in a statement about the decision to sue Oracle.
While Amex customers are typically more affluent than the overall population, the chairman, Kenneth I. Chenault, said in a statement that spending remained below levels reached before the recession "as card members continued to manage their finances carefully and pay down outstanding debt".
"It was starting to hurt the overall brand," said Donny Deutsch, chairman of Deutsch Inc., an advertising agency, when asked about the original pricing strategy.
At Citigroup, Mr. Weill runs the world's largest financial institution, but Citigroup's business with the exchange is too small a part of its overall operations for its chairman to qualify as an industry representative.
"What the chairman's overall plan has been is to build a sustainable business model.
"Student loan debt … is a burden which is affecting, for example, the ability of many young people to buy a first home, affecting other purchasing decisions they might make, affecting obviously their overall financial condition," Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said this month, echoing recent research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
