| BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : MARCH 15, 1999 ISSUE | ||||||||
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| COVER STORY
Mike Ruettgers BORN 1942, Muskogee, Okla. EDUCATION BS, 1964, Idaho State University; MBA, 1967, Harvard business school. FAMILY Married, two daughters and a son. FAVORITE COUNTRY GROWING UP England, because he learned how to play cricket there. Also lived in Japan (photo above), Turkey, and Germany as son of an Air Force pilot. MOST HUMBLING EXPERIENCE Flunking out of UCLA and losing a Navy scholarship: ''I had to come out the other side to develop some judgment and focus.'' BIGGEST INVESTING MISTAKE Exercising EMC stock options in 1992 for a net gain of $343,000 to pay bills. Today, they would be worth $24.8 million. NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS MET WITH LAST YEAR 600 MOST COVETED EMC SOUVENIR A poster of Ruettgers holding up a fist with blue-stained knuckles, taunting IBM: ''Had Enough, Big Blue?'' COLLEAGUES ENVY HIM BECAUSE He sleeps so well on planes and in cars. TRADEMARK ATTIRE At work: Custom-made suits from Louis Boston. At home: Cowboy boots and khakis. HIDDEN TALENT Gourmet cook, especially coq au vin, prepared with game birds from hunting jaunts. FAVORITE BOOK The Killer Angels, the Civil War novel by Michael Shaara. FAVORITE WEB SITE Yahoo! HOBBIES Golf, fishing, hunting, playing pool, reading military history. Over the past 10 years, EMC's shares have posted a spectacular return of 36,196% _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP |
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