Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway lost Bill Gates as a director this year. Here are its 14 board members.

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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway lost Bill Gates as a director this year. Here are its 14 board members.
  • Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway lost one of its highest-profile directors when Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates resigned this year.
  • The famed investor's conglomerate still counts his right-hand man Charlie Munger and former Yahoo!, American Express, and NBCUniversal executives among its board members.
  • Here are Berkshire's 14 directors.
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Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett
AP / Seth Wenig

Age: 89

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (1965 - present); Berkshire chairman and CEO (1970 - present); Coca-Cola director (1989 - 2006)

Source: Berkshire Hathaway

Charlie Munger

Charlie Munger
Shutterstock/Kent Sievers

Age: 96

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director and vice chairman (1978 - present); Wesco Financial chairman and CEO (1984 - 2011); Costco director (1997 - present)

Notes: Munger is Buffett's right-hand man and longtime investing partner.

Source: Berkshire Hathaway

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Greg Abel

Greg Abel
Greg Abel Berkshire Hathaway Energy

Age: 57

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2018 - present); Berkshire vice chairman of non-insurance operations (2018 - present); Berkshire Hathaway Energy CEO (2008-2018); Kraft Heinz director (2015 - present)

Source: Berkshire Hathaway


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Ajit Jain

Ajit Jain
Ajit Jain AP Images

Age: 68

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2018 - present); Berkshire vice chairman of insurance operations (2018 - present); executive vice president of National Indemnity (1996 - present)

Notes: Berkshire says Jain has assessed and priced "many of the largest and most complex risks ever insured" and generated "billions of dollars of capital for deployment" across the company.

Source: Berkshire Hathaway

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Howard Buffett

Howard Buffett
Howard Buffett at a joint press conference with Colombia's President Ivan Duque at the military base in Tibu, Colombia, January 29, 2020. AP Photo/Ivan Valencia

Age: 65

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (1993 - present); Sheriff of Macon County, Illinois (2017 - 2018); Howard G. Buffett Foundation chairman and CEO (2013 - present), Warren Buffett's son (1954 - present)

Source: Berkshire Hathaway

Stephen Burke

Stephen Burke
Royal Television Society

Age: 61

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2009 - present); NBCUniversal chairman (2020 - present); NBCUniversal CEO and Comcast senior executive vice president (2011 - 2019); JPMorgan director (2004 - present)

Source: Berkshire Hathaway


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Kenneth Chenault

Kenneth Chenault
Reuters

Age: 68

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2020 - present); General Catalyst chairman and managing director (2018 - present); American Express CEO (2001 - 2018); Facebook director (2018-2020)

Notes: Bill Gates' replacement on Berkshire's board.

Source: Berkshire Hathaway

Susan Decker

Susan Decker
Bloomberg

Age: 57

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2007 - present); Costco director (2004 - present); SurveyMonkey director (2017 - present); Vox Media director (2016 - present); Raftr founder and CEO (2017 - present); Yahoo! president (2007 -2009)

Source: Berkshire Hathaway

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David "Sandy" Gottesman

David "Sandy" Gottesman
A Berkshire Hathaway shareholder poses with a likeness of Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett at the shareholder's shopping day in Omaha, Nebraska May 1, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

Age: 93

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2004 - present); First Manhattan CEO (2006 - 2019)

Notes: Became a billionaire after an early investment in Berkshire.

Source: Berkshire Hathaway


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Charlotte Guyman

Charlotte Guyman
Tanya Parypa/YouTube

Age: 63

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2003 - present); Microsoft general manager and other positions (1987 - 1999); CameoWorks strategic advisor (2017 - present); Brooks Running advisory board member (2012 - present)

Source: Berkshire Hathaway; LinkedIn

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Thomas Murphy

Thomas Murphy
FoundationINTERVIEWS

Age: 94

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2004 - present); Capital Cities/ABC chairman and CEO (1996-1990)

Notes: Buffett told Lawrence Cunningham, author of "Berkshire Beyond Buffett," that "most of what I learned about management, I learnt from Murph."

Source: Berkshire Hathaway; Quartz

Ronald Olson

Ronald Olson
Bloomberg

Age: 78

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (1997 - present); Munger, Tolles & Olson cofounder and partner (1962 - present); The Washington Post Company director (2003 - 2017)

Source: Berkshire Hathaway; Graham Holdings


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Walter Scott, Jr.

Walter Scott, Jr.
NETNebraska

Age: 88

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (1988 - present); Peter Kiewit Sons CEO (1979 - 1998)

Notes: One of Buffett's childhood friends, Scott partnered with him to buy MidAmerican Energy in 2000, which became Berkshire Hathaway Energy in 2014.

Source: Berkshire Hathaway; Forbes

Meryl Witmer

Meryl Witmer
Wall Street Journal

Age: 58

Notable past and present roles: Berkshire director (2013 - present); Eagle Capital Partners general partner (2001 - present); Emerald Partners cofounder and manager (1989 - 2000)

Notes: Witmer recently bought more than $2.2 million worth of Berkshire stock

Source: Berkshire Hathaway; SEC

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