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Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.
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Birth: | 24th January, 1943 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Businessman |
James Love Barksdale was born in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He is an American businessman. He served as the president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation from January 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999. He earned a B.A. degree in Business Administration from the University of Mississippi in 1965. Before Netscape, he had worked as CEO of McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless and, before that, as Vice President and COO of FedEx. He also sits on the Board of Directors of several companies including Time Warner, FedEx, and Sun Microsystems. President George W. Bush appointed him to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He is the co-author of book, entitled Protecting America's Freedom in the Information Age (with Zoë Baird and Philip D. Zelikow).
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