Ten youngest CEOs
Wednesday 14th January 2009
Getting to the top takes time for most of us. Here, we countdown ten people who have bucked the trend and are the youngest CEOs in the world
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Yolanda Cuba | 29 | Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Yolanda is CEO of the Mvelaphanda Group which has a turnover of $350 million |
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Adam Stewart | 29 |
Based in Miami, Florida, United States, Adam heads up the hotel chain Sandals Resorts which has a turnover of $100 million |
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Harry Vafias | 30 |
StealthGas is in the shipping sector and has Harry Vafias at its head. It is based in Athens, Greece and has a turno ver of $100 million |
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Sahba Abedian | 31 |
Sahba is the CEO of Sunland, a property development company in Sydney, Australia |
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Gray Hudkins | 33 |
Gray heads up Langer, a medical supply company based in New York, United States, and with a turnover of $43 million |
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Julie Smolyansky | 33 |
Based in Illinois, United States, Lifeway Foods is a food processing company with a turnover of $180 million |
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Dustin Shindo | 35 |
Hoku Scientific is an electronics company headed by Dustin Shindo. Based in Hawaii, United States, the company has a turnover of $48 million |
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J. Mariner Kemper | 35 | Based in Colorado, United States, UMB Bank is headed by J. Mariner Kemper and has a turnover of $1.5bn |
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Matt Williams | 35 |
Matt is the CEO for Topps Tiles, a retail sector company based in Cheshire, United Kingdom. Topps has a turnover of $300 million |
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Bin Zhao | 36 |
Bin Zhao is head of Shanghai Aerospace Automobile Electromechanical, an engineering company based in Shanghai China with a turnover of $200 million |
The average age of a CEO across the world is 54 and the most common age is 57 (Figures: Cass Business School)
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