Awards & Recognition
★Financial Times CEO of the Year award
★Individual Achievement Award from The Energy Daily
★Horatio Alger Association member
★Atlas Awards Lifetime Achievement Award (2024)
Notable Facts
→Former Warren Buffett protégé and widely expected successor at Berkshire Hathaway until 2011
→Chairman/CEO of Teton Capital LLC managing $12 billion in assets
→Former CEO of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company sold to Berkshire Hathaway for $9 billion
→Turned around NetJets from $157M loss to $207M profit in one year
→Authored book 'Pleased But Not Satisfied' in 2008
→Founded three companies and taken three companies public