Richard Fairbank founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1988, and is currently the Chairman and CEO. Capital One Financial Corp. ... A chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ...

He also serves on the board of directors of MasterCard International, and is the Chairman of MasterCard International's U.S. Region Board of Directors. He is a member of the Stanford Business School Advisory Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, and the board of directors of the BITS Technology Forum. In relation to a company, a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of the affairs of the company. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... Stanford Graduate School of Business, also known as Stanford Business School or Stanford GSB, is one of the top business schools in the world, and part of Stanford University. ...

Fairbank has been awarded Washingtonian’s "Business Leader of the Year", Worth’s list of the top 10 CEOs and "50 Best CEOs", Future Banker’s list of "influential personalities in financial services", Credit Card Management’s "Entrepreneur of the Year"; and The Gartner Group’s "Excellence in Technology." The Washingtonian is a monthly magazine distrubuted in the Washington DC area. ... Worth is a personal finance and luxury lifestyle magazine in the United States. ... Gartner logotype. ...

Fairbank received a bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University in 1972, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1981, where he graduated first in his class. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Face-to-face trading interactions among on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor Economics, as a social science, studies human choice behavior and how it affects the production, distribution, and consumption of scarce resources. ... Stanford redirects here. ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ...

External links

• Article about Fairbank in Stanford Business magazine
• Profile at Forbes.com
• Profile at the Stanford Business School