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David S. Pottruck

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David S. Pottruck (San Francisco, CA) is the Chairman of HighTower Advisors, a $25 billion wealth management firm that he helped launch in 2008. He serves on the Board of Directors of Intel Corporation, and is the Chairman of the Board of CorpU, a leadership development organization that integrates social media, cloud computing, and mobile technologies help employees grow their skills and achieve greater success. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Charles Schwab Corporation until 2004. He joined the company in 1984 as Executive Vice President of Marketing and was promoted to Co-CEO and then CEO. He has been named one of the "Top 15 CEOs" by Worth; "CEO of the Year" by Information Week; "Executive of the Year" by the San Francisco Business Times; and "CEO of the Year" by Morningstar. He is the co-author with Terry Pearce of the best-selling CLICKS AND MORTAR: Passion Driven Growth in an Internet Driven World. He is a Senior Fellow and adjunct faculty member at the Wharton Business School's Center for Leadership and Change Management. In 2010 and again in 2012, he was Wharton San Francisco's highest-rated faculty member and received the school's "Outstanding Teaching Award" for his class, "Leading Bold Transformational Change.” Dave also just published a new book which launched in October of 2014 entitled STACKING THE DECK, How to Lead Breakthrough Change Against Any Odds.
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