The Unlikely Rise of a Corporate Titan Raj Subramaniam, CEO of FedEx, has achieved a level of success that defies conventional wisdom about how executives reach the top.
His path to becoming the head of a $75 billion shipping giant was marked by chance and resourcefulness rather than privilege or connections.
Subramaniam's story begins with his decision to take advantage of an abandoned interview left behind by a roommate in the early 1990s, when unemployment was soaring above 7% and hiring was scarce.