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These business leaders will have Trump’s ear
President- elect Donald Trump announced Friday the 16 business executives who will form his “Strategic and Policy Forum,” a group designed to advise him on job growth.
“The Forum, which is composed of some of America’s most highly respected and successful business leaders, will be called upon to meet with the President frequently to share their specific experience and knowledge as the President implements his plan to bring back jobs and Make America Great Again,” a statement released by his transition team said.
The full list is below, from the Trump transition team: Stephen Schwarzman ( Forum chairman), chairman, CEO and co- founder of Blackstone Paul Atkins, CEO, Patomak Global Partners; former commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Barra, chairman and CEO, General Motors
Toby Cosgrove, CEO, Cleveland Clinic
Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Larry Fink, chairman and CEO, BlackRock
Bob Iger, chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Rich Lesser, president and CEO, Boston Consulting Group
Doug McMillon, president and CEO, Wal- Mart Stores
Jim McNerney, former chairman, president, and CEO, Boeing
Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi, chairman and managing partner, Global Infrastructure Partners
Ginni Rometty, chairman, president and CEO, IBM
Kevin Warsh, Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics, Hoover Institute; former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Mark Weinberger, global chairman and CEO, EY
Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO, General Electric
Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize winner; vice chairman of IHS Markit
A council of advisers focused on job growth is normal protocol. President Obama created one in 2011, which included McNerney and was led by Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric.