
Brian Cornell
The veteran consumer executive who spent more than a decade steadying Target, turning a data breach and a sales slump into one of retail's most studied turnarounds.
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The veteran consumer executive who spent more than a decade steadying Target, turning a data breach and a sales slump into one of retail's most studied turnarounds.
The man who started as a part time Target security guard and rose to run Lowe's, becoming one of the very few Black executives to lead two Fortune 500 companies.
The Minnesota accountant who joined Best Buy as a financial analyst and rose over two decades to become its chief executive, steering the electronics retailer through a turbulent era.
The chemist turned executive who ran Sam's Club, served as Starbucks operating chief, and became one of the few Black women ever to lead a Fortune 500 company at Walgreens.
The former Amazon engineer who failed at twenty startups before founding Instacart, building the grocery delivery giant into a public company and becoming a billionaire.

The engineer who left Microsoft to rebuild how India buys glasses, turning Lenskart into a ten billion dollar eyewear powerhouse.