Gerald J. Ford

Gerald J. Ford
Born	Pampa, TX
Residence	Dallas, Texas, United States
Nationality	American
Education	Doctor of Jurisprudence, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Alma mater	Southern Methodist University
Occupation	Chairman & CEO
Net worth	US$ 2.1 billion (September 2015)

Gerald J. Ford (born 1944) is an American businessman.

Gerald Ford was raised in Pampa, Texas and attended Pampa Senior High School. He graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas in 1966, where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He received a J.D. from the SMU School of Law in 1969.

He is former Chairman of the board and Chief Executive Officer of Golden State Bancorp, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco. It was a holding company for the nation's second largest thrift institution and California's fourth largest bank. In 2002, he sold it to Citigroup for $6 billion. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Hilltop Holdings, a bank and insurance holding company. He also sits on the Boards of Directors of Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), the world’s largest extractor of copper and gold.

He has also invested in First Acceptance Corporation, Pacific Capital Bancorp (Annual Sales $13 billion), Golden State Bancorp, FSB (federal savings bank that merged with Citigroup in 2002) Rio Hondo Land & Cattle Company (annual sales $1.6 million), Diamond Ford, Dallas (sales: $200 million), Scientific Games Corp., SWS Group (annual sales: $422 million); American Residential Cmnts LLC. His other investments include the auto-finance company AmeriCredit, Pacific Capital Bancorp and 120,000 acres (486 km²) of rangeland in New Mexico.

In a 2010 interview on entrepreneurship with Forbes, he suggested reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Financier by Theodore Dreiser, The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin and The Big Short by Michael Lewis.

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