AIAC AT THE YALE CEO CAUCUS IN WASHINGTON DC
For Immediate Release
March 11, 2025 – Washington, D.C. L. M. Levie, Chairman of American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC), joined 100 corporate leaders from industry and finance along with 60 high ranking politicians and journalists at the Yale CEO Caucus, held in Washington DC on March 11, 2025. Convened by the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, the program was held on the top floor and terrace at 101 Constitution Avenue, in full view of the US Capitol.
The Yale CEO Caucus was entitled “Navigating Trump 2.0” and focused on the following general themes:
Global Trade and Diplomacy
Energy, Innovation, and Industry
Regulations
Following an introduction by Yale School of Management Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT) and Kevin Rudd, Ambassador and former Prime Minister of Australia, addressed the forum.
Participants at the Yale CEO Caucus included the following:
Albert Bourla, CEO Pfizer
Michael Dell, Founder & CEO, Dell
Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase
Douglas Parker, CEO, American Airlines
Maria Black, CEO, ADP
Richard Dickson, CEO, Gap
Steve Case, Founder & CEO, Revolution, American Online
Barbara Humpton, CEO, Siemens Corporation
Don Allan, CEO, Stanley Black & Decker
Nick Pinchuk, Chairman and CEO, Snap-On Inc.
Mark Stewart, CEO Goodyear
Richard Adkerson, Chairman, Freeport-McMoran
Lynn Good, Chair, President and CEO, Duke Energy
Judy Marks, CEO, Otis Elevator Company
Pedro Pizarro, CEO, Edison International
Tom Rogers, Founder, MSNBC and CNBC
Robert Hormats, Former Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International and of Kissinger Associates, Former US Undersecretary of State
Glenn Fogel, CEO, Bookings Holdings
Martin Sorrell, Founder and Executive Chairman, S4 Capital, and former Founder of WPP plc
Farooq Kathwari, Chair and CEO, Ethan Allen
Dr. Joel Meyers, Founder and Chair, AccuWeather
Adam Aron, CEO AMC Entertainment
Jeffrey Solomon, President, TD Cowen
Nancy Brown, CEO, American Heart Association
Helena Foulkes, Former CEO, Hudson’s Bay Company
William M. Isaac, Chairman, Secura/Isaac Group, Former Chairman, FDIC
Mark Ein, CEO, Capital Investment Corporation
Andrew Ferguson, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
Steve Moore, Economic Advisor to President Trump and Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation
Chris Krebs, Chief Intelligence Officer, SentinelOne, former Director, US Cybersecurity Agency
Donna Shalala, 18th Secretary, US Health and Human Services Department, US Congresswoman
David Shulkin, 9th Secretary for Veterans Affairs
Olivia Troye, Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, Member, White House Coronavirus Task Force
Chris Shays, Former US Congressman
Denis Ross, former US Envoy to the Middle East and Special Advisor to US Secretary of State
Stephanie Ruhle, Anchor, MSNBC 11th Hour, NBC News Senior Business Analyst, former Managing Editor and Anchor for Bloomberg Television
Eamon Javers, Senior Washington Correspondent, CNBC
Diane Brady, Executive Editorial Director, Fortune
AAt the conclusion of the Yale CEO Caucus, Dr. Sonnenfeld led the presentation of the Yale Legend in Leadership Award to Glenn Fogel, Chairman and CEO of Bookings Holdings, noting the remarkable rise in the financial performance and stock price of the company during Mr. Fogel’s term as CEO. The award ceremony included remarks by Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, Lynn Good, Chair and CEO of Duke Energy, and Barbara Humpton, President and CEO, Siemens Corporation. In his acceptance speech, Mr. Fogel acknowledged the dedication of the 24,000 employees of Bookings Holdings.
Following the event, Mr. Levie remarked, “It is always a privilege to participate in the Yale CEO Caucus, an experience marked by insightful and respectful bipartisan dialogue. I join my friends and colleagues at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute in extending heartfelt congratulations to Glenn Fogel, one of the most distinguished and accomplished business leaders of his generation.”
For further information, please see: https://som.yale.edu/centers/chief-executive-leadership-institute/programs/ceo-caucus
About Glenn Fogel
Glenn Fogel is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President of Booking Holdings, a leading global provider of online travel and related services. He has held these positions since January 2017 and also serves as the CEO of Booking.com, a role he assumed in June 2019.
Fogel earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1983 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1988. Before joining Booking Holdings, he worked as a trader at a global asset management firm and as an investment banker specializing in the air transportation industry.
He joined Booking Holdings (formerly Priceline Group) in February 2000. Prior to becoming CEO, he served as Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning and as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development. In these roles, he led major strategic initiatives, including the acquisitions of Booking.com, KAYAK, OpenTable, Rentalcars.com, and Agoda.com, significantly expanding the company's global footprint.
For further information, please see:
Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel at Skift Global Forum 2024
https://www.businessroundtable.org/members/glenn-fogel
https://www.safegraph.com/podcasts/glenn-fogel
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.
For further information, please see:
https://som.yale.edu/centers/chief-executive-leadership-institute
About the Yale Legend in Leadership Award
The Yale Legend in Leadership Award was created 35 years ago to honor current and former CEOs who serve as living legends to inspire chief executives across industries, sectors, and nations. Recipients have included the following:
December 2024
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
Larry Fink, Chair and CEO of BlackRock
September 2024
James Quincey, CEO of Coca Cola Corporation
June 2024
Marc Benioff, Founder, Chair & CEO, Salesforce
March 2024
Mike Sievert, President & CEO, T-Mobile
January 2024
Shirley Tilghman, 19th President, Princeton University
December 2023
Ajay Banga, President, World Bank Group
September 2023
Arvind Krishna, Chairman & CEO, IBM Corporation
June 2023
Steven Spielberg, Filmmaker & Chairman of Amblin Partners
March 2023
Kathy Warden, Chair, President & CEO, Northrop Grumman Corporation
January 2023
Hanna Holborn Gray, 10th President, University of Chicago
December 2022
Satya Nadella, Chairman & CEO, Microsoft
June 2022
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
September 2022
Darius Adamczyk, Chairman & CEO, Honeywell
March 2022
W. Douglas Parker, CEO, American Airlines Group
December 2021
Albert Bourla, Chairman & CEO, Pfizer
Alex Gorsky, Chairman & CEO, Johnson & Johnson
September 2021
Lynn J. Good, CEO, Duke Energy
June 2021
Lisa Su, CEO, Advanced Micro Devices
March 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
December 2020
Doug McMillon, CEO, Walmart Corp.
September 2020
Arne M. Sorenson, CEO, Marriot International
June 2020
Brian C. Cornell, CEO, Target
December 2019
Randall L. Stephenson, CEO, AT&T
September 2019
Colin Powell, Retired Four-Star U.S. Army General; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–93), and 65th U.S. Secretary of State (2001–05)
June 2019
Virginia M. (Ginni) Rometty, Chairman, President & CEO, IBM Corporation
March 2019
Janet Yellen, Former Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
December 2018
Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever PLC
September 2018
Mary T. Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors Company
June 2018
Brian Moynihan, Chairman & CEO, Bank of America
March 2018
David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group
December 2017
Leonard S. Schleifer, President & CEO, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
George D. Yancopoulos, President & Chief Scientific Officer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
September 2017
Brian L. Roberts, Chairman & CEO, Comcast Corporation
June 2017
Ronald M. Shaich, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Panera Bread
December 2016
Terry J. Lundgren, Chairman & CEO, Macy’s, Inc.
September 2016
Marillyn A. Hewson, Chairman, President & CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
June 2016
Zhang Ruimin, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Haier Group
March 2016
Denise M. Morrison, President & CEO, Campbell Soup Company
December 2015
Kenneth C. Frazier, Chairman, President & CEO, Merck & Co.
September 2015
W. James McNerney, Chairman, The Boeing Company
June 2015
Ian M. Cook, Chairman, President & CEO, Colgate-Palmolive
March 2015
Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman & CEO, Goldman Sachs Group
Prior Winners
Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman & CEO, Alcoa
JIANG Jianqing, Chairman, ICBC
GAO Xiqing, President & CIO, China Investment Corporation
D. Scott Davis, Chairman, UPS
Frank Blake, former Chairman & CEO, The Home Depot
Duncan L. Niederauer, former CEO, NYSE
Kenneth R. Feinberg, Managing Partner, Feinberg Rozen
Ellen J. Kullman, former Chairman & CEO, DuPont
David Stern, former Commissioner, National Basketball Associate
FU Chengyu, former Chairman, Sinopec
David M. Cote, Chairman & CEO, Honeywell International
Sir James Wolfensohn, Former President, World Bank Group
Jeffrey L. Bewkes, Chairman & CEO, Time Warner Inc.
Indra K. Nooyi, Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo
Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman & CEO, General Electric Company
Michael S. Dell, Chairman & CEO, Dell Inc.
Andrew Liveris, Chairman, President & CEO, The Dow Chemical Company
Kenneth Chenault, Chairman & CEO, American Express Company
Myron E. (Mike) Ullman, III, Chairman & CEO, JCPenney Company, Inc.
Alan Mullally, President & CEO, Ford Motor Company
Anne Mulcahy, Chairman, Xerox Corporation
Robert A. Iger, President & CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Ivan G. Seidenberg, Chairman & CEO, Verizon Communications
Jamie Dimon, Chairman & CEO, JPMorgan Chase
Louis V. Gerstner Jr., Former Chairman & CEO, IBM
Richard J. Harrington, Chairman & CEO, The Thomson Corporation
Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman & CEO, The Blackstone Group
Herbert V. Kohler Jr., Chairman, President & CEO, Kohler Company
Thomas G. Stemberg, Founder, Staples
Wilbur L. Ross Jr., Chairman & CEO, W.L. Ross & Company
Terry S. Semel, Chairman & CEO, Yahoo!
Ann M. Fudge, Chairman & CEO, Young & Rubicam
John E. Pepper Jr., Former Chairman & CEO, The Procter & Gamble Co.
Jack Valenti, Chairman & CEO, Motion Picture Association
Kenneth L. Wolfe, Former Chairman & CEO, The Hershey Company
John C. Bogle, Founder, The Vanguard Group
William W. George, Former Chairman & CEO, Medtronic
Roger A. Enrico, Former Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo
Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder, Infosys
Ratan Tata, Tata Group
About American Industrial Acquisition Corporation
American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC) is a diversified industrial group with manufacturing and distribution sites in 24 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia-New Zealand. AIAC has acquired and grown non-core subsidiaries and divisions of Boeing, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Johnson Controls, Merck, Pfizer, Astellas, Visteon, Carlyle, Ahlstrom, Tolko, Groupe Suez, Groupe Rexel, and many other leading multinational corporations.
AIAC 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. In addition, AIAC companies are exclusive, authorized distributors of leading branded industrial and consumer products and serve as critical suppliers for the construction of major airports, schools, hospitals, performing arts and sports centers, offices and hotels throughout Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. AIAC is a leading manufacturer of building, street, and highway signage in Europe, signage and illumination structures in North America, and a distributor of electrical products throughout France.
Of note, AIAC purchased Boeing Canada in 2005 and has produced over 10,000 unique 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 produce 2,200 fan blades for each jet engine 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 lead in the design and manufacture of undersea umbilical cables for worldwide oceanographic research.
AIAC companies produce the critical automotive wire and cable for Tesla, GM, Ford, Chrysler-Fiat, Toyota, and Nissan. In connection with its kraft paper manufacturing interests in Canada and the US, AIAC controls and sustainably manages 22 million acres of Manitoba, Canada forestland, an area equivalent in size to the nation of Hungary. AIAC affiliate, Metallwarenfabrik Gemmingen GmbH, located in Germany, designs, manufactures and distributes high performance, emergency portable power generators utilized in global conflict zones and during natural disasters.
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, exploration, and the performing arts. The exploration-focused nonprofit organizations which they actively support include 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.
AIAC’s other 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, the Trilateral Commission, and the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute.
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