- 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.
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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 .
Warren Buffett
AP / Seth Wenig
Age: 89
Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (1965 - present); Berkshire chairman and CEO (1970 - present); Coca-Cola director (1989 - 2006)
Source: Berkshire Hathaway
Charlie Munger
Shutterstock/Kent Sievers
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.
Source: Berkshire Hathaway
Greg Abel
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)
Source: Berkshire Hathaway
Ajit Jain
AP Images
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.
Source: Berkshire Hathaway
Howard Buffett
AP Photo/Ivan Valencia
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)
Source: Berkshire Hathaway
Stephen Burke
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)
Source: Berkshire Hathaway
Kenneth Chenault
Reuters
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.
Source: Berkshire Hathaway
Susan Decker
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)
Source: Berkshire Hathaway
David "Sandy" Gottesman
REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Age: 93
Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2004 - present); First Manhattan CEO (2006 - 2019)
Notes: Became a billionaire after an early investment in Berkshire.
Source: Berkshire Hathaway
Charlotte Guyman
Tanya Parypa/YouTube
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)
Source: Berkshire Hathaway ; LinkedIn
Thomas Murphy
FoundationINTERVIEWS
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."
Source: Berkshire Hathaway ; Quartz
Ronald Olson
Bloomberg
Age: 78
Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (1997 - present); Munger, Tolles & Olson cofounder and partner (1962 - present); The Washington Post Company director (2003 - 2017)
Source: Berkshire Hathaway ; Graham Holdings
Walter Scott, Jr.
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.
Source: Berkshire Hathaway ; Forbes
Meryl Witmer
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)
Notes: Witmer recently bought more than $2.2 million worth of Berkshire stock
Source: Berkshire Hathaway ; SEC
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