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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway lost Bill Gates as a director this year. Here are its 14 board members.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway lost one of its highest-profile directors when Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates resigned this year .

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  • The famed investor's conglomerate still counts his right-hand man Charlie Munger and former Yahoo!, American Express, and NBCUniversal executives among its board members.
  • Here are Berkshire's 14 directors.
  • Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories .

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Age: 89

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (1965 - present); Berkshire chairman and CEO (1970 - present); Coca-Cola director (1989 - 2006)

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Age: 96

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director and vice chairman (1978 - present); Wesco Financial chairman and CEO (1984 - 2011); Costco director (1997 - present)

Notes: Munger is Buffett's right-hand man and longtime investing partner.

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Berkshire Hathaway Energy

Age: 57

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2018 - present); Berkshire vice chairman of non-insurance operations (2018 - present); Berkshire Hathaway Energy CEO (2008-2018); Kraft Heinz director (2015 - present)

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Age: 68

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2018 - present); Berkshire vice chairman of insurance operations (2018 - present); executive vice president of National Indemnity (1996 - present)

Notes: Berkshire says Jain has assessed and priced "many of the largest and most complex risks ever insured" and generated "billions of dollars of capital for deployment" across the company.

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Age: 65

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (1993 - present); Sheriff of Macon County, Illinois (2017 - 2018); Howard G. Buffett Foundation chairman and CEO (2013 - present), Warren Buffett's son (1954 - present)

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Royal Television Society

Age: 61

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2009 - present); NBCUniversal chairman (2020 - present); NBCUniversal CEO and Comcast senior executive vice president (2011 - 2019); JPMorgan director (2004 - present)

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Age: 68

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2020 - present); General Catalyst chairman and managing director (2018 - present); American Express CEO (2001 - 2018); Facebook director (2018-2020)

Notes: Bill Gates' replacement on Berkshire's board.

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Bloomberg

Age: 57

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2007 - present); Costco director (2004 - present); SurveyMonkey director (2017 - present); Vox Media director (2016 - present); Raftr founder and CEO (2017 - present); Yahoo! president (2007 -2009)

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Age: 93

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2004 - present); First Manhattan CEO (2006 - 2019)

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Notes: Became a billionaire after an early investment in Berkshire.

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Age: 63

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2003 - present); Microsoft general manager and other positions (1987 - 1999); CameoWorks strategic advisor (2017 - present); Brooks Running advisory board member (2012 - present)

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Age: 94

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2004 - present); Capital Cities/ABC chairman and CEO (1996-1990)

Notes: Buffett told Lawrence Cunningham, author of "Berkshire Beyond Buffett," that "most of what I learned about management, I learnt from Murph."

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Bloomberg

Age: 78

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Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (1997 - present); Munger, Tolles & Olson cofounder and partner (1962 - present); The Washington Post Company director (2003 - 2017)

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NETNebraska

Age: 88

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (1988 - present); Peter Kiewit Sons CEO (1979 - 1998)

Notes: One of Buffett's childhood friends, Scott partnered with him to buy MidAmerican Energy in 2000, which became Berkshire Hathaway Energy in 2014.

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Wall Street Journal

Age: 58

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2013 - present); Eagle Capital Partners general partner (2001 - present); Emerald Partners cofounder and manager (1989 - 2000)

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Notes: Witmer recently bought more than $2.2 million worth of Berkshire stock

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