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Subject: U.S. CEO career backgrounds
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: fischjam-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 30 Mar 2004 14:08 PST
Expires: 29 Apr 2004 15:08 PDT
Question ID: 322589
What is the percentage of current U.S. Chief Executive Officers who
have a career background in sales?

Request for Question Clarification by omnivorous-ga on 30 Mar 2004 15:16 PST
Fischjam --

There are a couple of issues in answering this question precisely:
1.  there are tens of thousands of public companies (the Wilshire
index alone tracks 5,000 of them on a daily basis).  Would you settle
for a summary of the background of the Fortune 500 CEOs?
2.  talented execs often get rotated through a variety of jobs --
perhaps spending 12-24 months in a sales job even if their background
was engineering or finance.  How do you want to deal with that?
3.  Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, really started as a Proctor &
Gamble product line manager -- but many equate that to a sales job. 
Does that count?

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Clarification of Question by fischjam-ga on 31 Mar 2004 04:49 PST
Fortune 500 CEO's are fine.  The CEO must have had direct
sales/calling on customers responsibility for at least a year.
Marketing jobs like brand management don't count.
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