James D. Robinson III

James Dixon Robinson III (born 1935) was the chief executive officer of American Express Co. from 1977 until his retirement from that company in 1993. He 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. While with American Express, Mr. Robinson played a prominent role in the RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout battle as chronicled in the book "" (1991) by Bryan Burrough. Former Senator Fred Thompson played Robinson in the 1993 movie.

James D. Robinson III has been a director of The Coca-Cola Company since 1975. Mr. Robinson 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. Mr. Robinson is also president of J.D. Robinson, Inc., a strategic consulting firm. He is non-executive chairman of the Board of Directors for Bristol-Myers Squibb and has been a member of its Board since 1976. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of First Data Corporation and Novell Inc., and is honorary chairman of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is a member of the Business Council and the Council on Foreign Relations, and an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution. In previous years, he served as co-chairman of the Business Roundtable and chairman of the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations.

Robinson and two of his partners at RRE Ventures, James D. Robinson IV and Richard McGinn, are all members of the Augusta National Golf Club.

External links

* [http://www.rre.com/ RRE Ventures] (company website)
* [http://gtalumni.org/StayInformed/magazine/sum93/own.html On His Own]
* [http://www.rre.com/ourteam.cfm#Robinson%20III JDR III Bio on RRE Website]