Richard M. Kovacevich is Chairman of the Board of Wells Fargo & Company, a banking and financial services company, a position he has held since April 2001. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Wells Fargo & Company from 1998 until his retirement in June 2007. He is also a director of Cargill, Inc. and Cisco Systems, Inc. He graduated from Stanford University where he earned his M.B.A., and his bachelor's and master's degrees in industrial engineering.