Ralph Reed (American Express)

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Ralph Thomas Reed (1889 – 1968)^[1] was the CEO of American Express in 1957. He was the person who made the decision to create the American Express charge card, first issued in 1958.

Preceded by ???	CEO of American Express 1944-1960	Succeeded by Howard Clark

v d e American Express

Payment products	Charge cards • Credit cards • ExpressPay • Traveler's cheques • Centurion Card • Red Card • Plum Card

Magazines	Departures • Executive Travel • Food & Wine • Travel + Leisure

Spun-off companies	Ameriprise Financial • First Data Corp. • Lehman Brothers • Merchants Despatch • Railway Express Agency • Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment

Notable current and former executives	Henry Wells • William Fargo • J. C. Fargo • Ralph Reed • James D. Robinson III • Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. • Sanford I. Weill • Harvey Golub • Kenneth Chenault • Gary Crittenden

Corporate directors	Kenneth Chenault (Chairman) • Daniel Akerson • Charlene Barshefsky • Ursula Burns • Peter Chernin • Vernon Jordan, Jr. • Jan Leschly • Rick Levin • Edward D. Miller • Frank Popoff • Robert D. Walter • Ron Williams

Other	The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman • American Express Incentive Services • Salad Oil Scandal • World Monuments Watch • 65 Broadway • Falmer Stadium (The American Express Community Stadium) • Three World Financial Center

Annual revenue: US$25.612 billion (2010) · Employees: 61,000 (2010) · Stock symbol: NYSE: AXP · Website: americanexpress.com

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^ Peter Z. Grossman, American Express: The People Who Built the Great Financial Empire, 1987

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Date of birth	1889
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Date of death	1968
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