abstract:John Russell Whitman is an American businessman who served as First Gentleman of New Jersey for seven years. Whitman has had a long career in banking and financial services, including working at Citigroup.
Showingbetter timing than foresight, MsWhitman (who is now running forgovernorofCalifornia) had alreadyhandedover the REINS to her anointed successor, John Donahoe, in early 2008.
The CEOs named by Jackson, who included John Chambers of Cisco, Meg Whitman (for her tenure at eBay), Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, Michael Eisner of Disney, Sandy Weill of Citigroup, and Carol Bartz of Yahoo, do not need me to defend them.