Background
ROBINSON, James was born on November 19, 1935 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Businessman chairman General officer of American Express
ROBINSON, James was born on November 19, 1935 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Robinson attended Woodberry Forest School and is a 1957 graduate of Georgia Tech's School of Industrial Management where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. He earned an MBA from Harvard in 1961.
American Express
James D Robinson III served as Chairman & CEO of the American Express Company for approximately 16 years. He held additional positions at the company prior to that. While at American Express, Robinson launched a thwarted hostile takeover of McGraw-Hill, purchased Shearson Lehman, IDS, First Data Corporation, and several others.
He co-created Warner-Amex with Steve Ross. He played a prominent role in the RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout battle as chronicled in the book Barbarians at the Gate. Former Senator Fred Dalton Thompson played Robinson in the 1993 movie.
Other positions
Robinson has been a director of The Coca-Cola Company since 1975. Robinson is also president of J.D. Robinson, Inc., a strategic consulting firm. He was previously a long-time Director and Chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb, and of Violy, Byorum & Partners, which operated in South America.
Robinson also serves on the Boards of Directors of The Coca-Cola Company Inc. and PrimeRevenue, and is honorary chairman of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In previous years, he served as co-chairman of the Business Roundtable and chairman of the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations.
He is a general partner and co-founder of RRE Ventures, a private information technology venture investment firm, along with his son, James D. Robinson IV, a venture capitalist, and a classmate of his son from Harvard Business School, Stuart J. Ellman. Robinson is a member of the Business Council and the Council on Foreign Relations, and an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution and World Travel & Toursim Council, where he was a co-founder.
Board of Trustees, The Brookings Institute. Board of Overseers, Board of Managers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Board of directors New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Council on Foreign Relations, Rockefeller University Council, The Business Council.
Married 1st Bettye Bradley (divorced). Married 2nd Linda Gosden in 1984.
