Chenault spent 37 years at American Express, most recently as Chairman and CEO from 2001 to 2017. He also serves on the boards of Airbnb, Facebook, IBM, Procter & Gamble Company, the Harvard Corporation and numerous nonprofit organizations, including the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, the Smithsonian Institution’s Advisory Council for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, and the Bloomberg Family Foundation.