John W. Thompson
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John W. Thompson (born April 24, 1949) is a former vice-president at IBM and the current CEO of Symantec.
Born in Fort Dix, New Jersey, Thompson received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Florida A&M in 1971 and a Master's degree in Management (M.B.A.) from the Sloan Fellows program of the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1983.
In April 2006, Forbes published a list of the most highly compensated CEOs. Thompson was ranked #8 with a total compensation of $71.84 million (USD).[1]
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- ^ John W Thompson, CEO Compensation. Forbes (April 2006). Retrieved on 2006-06-07.
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