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CEOs who worked their way up their famous company

Bosses who worked their way up
Sidney J. Weinberg, Goldman Sachs
Mary T Barra, General Motors
Hugh Grant, Monsanto
Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson
Lynne Doughtie, KPMG
Doug McMillon, Walmart
Brian Krzanich, Intel
Michael Corbat, Citibank
Greg Wasson, Walgreens
Kevin Liles, Def Jam
Lynn Good, Duke Energy
Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing
Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil
Brian Dunn, Best Buy
Corie Barry, Best Buy
Chris Rondeau, Planet Fitness
Susan Wojcicki, YouTube
George Bodenheimer, ESPN
Roger Goodell, NFL
Samuel Palmisano, IBM
Ginni Rometty, IBM
Li Mingyuan, Baidu
Alan G Lafley, Procter & Gamble
Jim Skinner, McDonald's
Jim Umpleby, Caterpillar
Ursula Burns, Xerox
Jack Welch, General Electric
George Hu, Salesforce
Abigail Johnson, Fidelity
Samuel Allen, John Deere
John Strangfeld, Prudential
Philip Clarke, Tesco
James Ziemer, Harley-Davidson
Pang Kang, Foshan Haitian Flavoring & Food
Bob Iger, Disney
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Bosses who worked their way up

While there are some people who are fortunate enough to be handed golden opportunities, for most of us getting to the top means a lot of hard work and determination. These bosses started on the bottom run of the corporate ladder but worked their way up to lead some of the biggest businesses on the planet. Click or scroll through to find out who they are, and how they got there.

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20 January 2021

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