Ralph Reed (American Express)

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.

Business positions
Preceded by ???	CEO of American Express 1944-1960	Succeeded by Howard L. Clark, Sr.

American Express

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

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 Howard L. Clark, Sr. 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) Small Business Saturday Three World Financial Center

References

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

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