Two years later, the committee had grown to eight members, four of them financial executives.

By 1997, the compensation committee had grown to 12 people, with 5 of them financial executives.

When Tony was a year old the family moved to California, where his father worked as a financial executive in the movie business.

Economists and financial executives have proposed similar changes for years.

But he said the departure of senior financial executives had not been a negative factor.

They hired a senior financial executive who, everyone agrees, has done a superb job.

The author is a successful financial executive and single mother who left the business world to pursue a career in writing.

"She's not a good face of the issues," one financial executive said.

Several other local financial executives said privately that they too were worried.

He was also a financial executive in the railroad industry.