FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam graduated from Syracuse and the University of Texas at Austin. But he also attended what he calls “CEO school,” taught by Fred Smith, FedEx’s founder and first CEO. Subramaniam is its second; he took over the company in 2022.
Decades of experience informed Smith’s CEO school curriculum. He first conceived of a system for urgent, overnight deliveries in an economics paper at Yale. Smith ran with the idea, launching Federal Express in 1971, and growing it into a global logistics giant with $90.1 billion in revenue in the past 12 months.
