Sanford Weill

Net worth: $1.1 Billion

Swineford Weill began his career with financial institutions as a bank clerk over forty years ago. He's come a long way since, now holding the reins as Chairman and CEO of the world's largest banking institution: Citigroup. As top dog of the company that holds funds for weapons manufactuers, food conglomerates, manufacturing firms, insurance, investment companies, and more, Weill controls over $1 trillion in assets.

Weill has sat on the boards of weapons corporations (United Technologies), chemical companies (DuPont), and several communications companies such as AT&T and the failed WorldCom, just to name a few. In May of 2004, Weill and Citigroup conceded to pay 2.65 billion dollars to settle a class-action lawsuit for playing a role in misleading investors in failed telecom giant WorldCom (which is now thriving as MCI due to billions of $$ in contracts in Iraq). In 1985 he served his first executive position as president of American Express. Weill also founded the insurance giant Travelers group which merged with Citicorp in 2001 to form what we now know (and hate) as the world's largest money firm, Citigroup.

Weill sits on the board of directors of one of America's most prestigious universities, Cornell.

Affiliations:   AT&T, Cornell University, DuPont, United Technologies, Travelers Insurance Group (founder), American Express (president)

2003 salary: $30 million