AIAC AT THE 149TH YALE CEO SUMMIT AND LEGEND IN LEADERSHIP AWARD CEREMONY FOR MARC BENNIOFF OF SALESFORCE
Marc Bennioff, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce
June 11, 2024 - New York, NY L. M. Levie, Chairman of American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC), attended the 149th Yale CEO Summit on Tuesday, June 11th. The Summit’s theme was "The Internet @ 50: What Experts Got Wrong and Right – Impact on Your Business," which stimulated a series of unscripted, free-flowing discussions concerning the benefits and risks posed by generative artificial intelligence, including cyberthreats, higher customer service levels, productivity improvement, workforce changes, R&D acceleration, and domestic political implications.
The CEO Summit featured opening remarks from former speaker of the House of Representative Nancy Pelosi, and US Senators Marsha Blackburn (TN) and Richard Blumenthal (CT), who discussed the growing bipartisan concensus for balancing regulatory frameworks with the need to foster technological advancement.
The CEO Summit concluded with the presentation of the Yale Legend in Leadership award to Marc Benioff of Salesforce. The award was presented by Michael Dell of Dell Technologies, Bob Iger of Disney, Arvind Krishna of IBM, and Mike Sievert of T-Mobile.
The Summit’s participants included the following:
Senator Richard Blumenthal, US Senator from Connecticut
Senator Marsha Blackburn, US Senator from Tennessee Congressman
Brad Karp, Chairman, Paul Weiss
Jeh Johnson, Former Homeland Security Secretary
Jason Furman, Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
Chris Krebs, Founding Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Founder, Inclusive Capital Partners
Greg Brown, Chair & CEO, Motorola
Steven Bandrowczak, CEO, Xerox Corporation
Steve Case, Chairman & CEO, Revolution; Co-Founder, AOL
Alan Patricof, Chair & Co-Founder, Primetime Partners
Pat Russo, Chair, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jack Hidary, CEO, SandboxAQ
Roger McNamee, Founder, Elevation Partners
Ivan Seidenberg, Former Chair & CEO, Verizon
John Clippinger, Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab
Brian Moynihan, Chair & CEO, Bank of America
Lloyd Blankfein, Senior Chairman, Goldman Sachs
Anthony Scaramucci, Founder, SkyBridge Capital
Jeffrey Solomon, President, TD Cowen
Joseph Lubin, Founder & CEO, ConsenSys; Co-Founder, Ethereum
John O’Connor, Chairman & CEO, JH Whitney Investment Management
Greg Maffei, President & CEO, Liberty Media Corporation
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Dealbook Editor, The New York Times; CNBC Squawk Box Anchor
Jennifer Witz, CEO, SiriusXM Radio
Jeffrey Bewkes, Former Chair & CEO, Time Warner
Kay Koplovitz, Founder & Former CEO, USA Networks
Steven Brill, Co-CEO, NewsGuard Technologies
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform
Mary Barra, Chair & CEO, General Motors
James Quincey, Chair & CEO, The Coca-Cola Company
Michel Doukeris, CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev
Brian Niccol, CEO, Chipotle
W. Rodney McMullen, Chair & CEO, The Kroger Company
Erik Nordstrom, CEO, Nordstrom
Jacek Olzcak, CEO, Philip Morris International
Jim McCann, Founder, Chair & CEO, 1-800-Flowers
Martin Sorrell, Founder & Executive Chair, S4 Capital; Founder, WPP
Adam Aron, Chair & CEO, AMC Entertainment
Reuben Mark, Former CEO, Colgate-Palmolive Company
Sara Eisen, Squawk On The Street Anchor, CNBC
Jason Girzadas, CEO, Deloitte US
Jonas Prising, Chair & CEO, ManpowerGroup
Doug Parker, Chairman, American Airlines Group
Tom Glocer, Lead Director, Merck
Fred Hassan, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus
John W. Jackson, Former CEO, Celgene
James Taiclet, Chair, President & CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Kathy Warden, Chair, President & CEO, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Lynn Good, Chair, President & CEO, Duke Energy Corporation
Adam Norwitt, President & CEO, Amphenol
Nicholas Pinchuk, Chair & CEO, Snap-On Incorporated
Michael Happe, President & CEO, Winnebago Industries
Ed Breen, Executive Chair, DuPont
Morgan Brennan, Closing Bell Anchor, CNBC
Marc Benioff, Chair, CEO, and Co-Founder, Salesforce
Michael Dell, Chair & CEO, Dell Technologies
Bob Iger, CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Arvind Krishna, Chair & CEO, IBM
Mike Sievert, CEO, T-Mobile
Following the Summit, Mr. Levie , commented, "Once again, Professor Sonnenfeld has assembled and engaged a literal Who’s Who of CEO’s from the media, telecommunications, technology, finance, and manufacturing sectors along with top political leaders to candidly discuss the extraordinary opportunities and challenges of high velocity technological change in a positive, non-confrontational format. The closing tribute by his peers to Marc Benioff was profoundly moving and vastly deserved. His global impact as an entrepreneur and humanitarian cannot be overstated.”
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About the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute
The Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI) is the pioneer of CEO learning and hosts CEO Summits which bring together top business leaders and policy makers, as well as leading academics, in a unique learning environment that fosters candid, off-the-record exchanges among participants. The Yale Mayors College is a best-practices dialogue among municipal leaders in an off-the-record interactive setting, with participants sharing the steps they are taking to make their cities more livable. The Yale CEO Caucus is a semiannual roundtable for business leaders, political leaders, and scholars to discuss the business implications of urgent national and global events that span economics, diplomacy, security, energy, environment, regulation, and politics. The Yale Higher Education Leadership Summit brings together university presidents and board chairs, along with other top leadership, to discuss the higher education environment and key strategies to shape the future of colleges and universities in the U.S.
CELI is the world’s first school for CEOs, featuring applied research and peer-driven learning through lively exchanges among the world’s top business leaders, influential public policy makers, media opinion leaders, as well as foremost scholarly thought leaders, employing candid, confidential discussions of timely global business leadership challenges and compelling societal concerns.
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About Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Programs at Yale University’s School of Management and the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, as well as the founder, president & chief executive officer of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute. This institute is the world’s first CEO College and is dedicated to the advancement of top leadership education through scholarly research and peer-driven educational forums for prominent CEOs. Previously, he was a professor at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University. There he founded the Center for Leadership & Career Studies, which he ran for eight years. Prior, Sonnenfeld spent ten years as a professor at the Harvard Business School. His research, publications, and consulting address issues of top leadership development, executive succession, and board governance.
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https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/jeffrey-sonnenfeld
ABOUT AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL ACQUISITION CORPORATION
American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC) is a diversified industrial group with manufacturing and distribution sites in 24 countries and 3 territories in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. AIAC has acquired and grown subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliates of Boeing, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Technologies, Moog, Johnson Controls, Merck, Pfizer, Astellas, Visteon, Carlyle, Blackstone, Riverside, Ahlstrom, Groupe Suez, Groupe Rexel, and many other leading multinational corporations.
AIAC manufacturing companies serve companies and governmental entities worldwide in all major sectors, including aviation, space, defense, automotive, truck, rail, marine, petrochemical, solar, nuclear, food, confectionary, beverage, civil engineering and infrastructure, commercial construction, mining, dredging, disaster relief, education, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. AIAC companies manufacture materials, components, assemblies, packaging, equipment, and finished products. In addition, AIAC companies are exclusive, authorized distributors of leading branded industrial and consumer products throughout Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand and electrical equipment throughout France.
Of note, AIAC purchased Boeing Canada in 2005, and has produced over 10,000 components for every Boeing jet plane ever since, reliably serving Boeing from manufacturing facilities in North America. A leader in ultra high precision jet engine component manufacturing, AIAC companies also produce 2,200 fan blades and blisks for jet engines produced by GE, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, and Honeywell.
AIAC companies actively support exploration into outer space, manufacturing critical components for launching and propelling spacecraft and satellites. AIAC customers in this sector include NASA, the European Space Agency, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Boeing. AIAC companies also produce the critical wire and cable for Tesla, GM, Ford, Chysler-Fiat, Toyota, Nissan, Navistar, and Caterpillar. In connection with its paper manufacturing interests, AIAC controls and sustainably manages 22 million acres of Manitoba, Canada forestland, an area equivalent in size to the nation of Hungary. AIAC companies design, manufacture and service road and highway signage for over 4,000 municipalities in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. AIAC companies also design and produce poles for illumination and signage for cities and states throughout North America.
ABOUT AIAC PHILANTHROPY
AIAC and the AIAC Foundation support a wide range of nonprofit, nonsectarian, bipartisan organizations which promote international conflict resolution, disaster relief, economic development, environmental sustainability, and exploration. AIAC’s beneficiaries include the Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates Foundation Inc., the Asia Society, the Atlantic Council, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Gates Philanthropy Partners, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Carter Center, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, the Foreign Policy Association, the Institut Française des Relations Internationales, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Crisis Group, the International Rescue Committee, the Japan Society, the JFK School of Government of Harvard University, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the Sierra Club, and the Trilateral Commission. In the realm of science and exploration, AIAC actively supports the Explorers Club, the National Geographic Society, the Royal Geographical Society, the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Air and Space Museum, the National Space Society, and the United States Space Foundation.
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American Industrial Acquisition Corporation
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