By Victoria Colliver San Francisco Chronicle Posted: Thursday, Oct. 09, 2008 Title: Chairman for Wells Fargo since 2001. Hometown: Enumclaw, Wash. 2007 pay: Included salary of $995,000, a $5.7 million bonus and $15.5 million in gains realized exercising options to buy company stock. Past positions: CEO of Wells Fargo, 1998 to June 2007; CEO and chairman of Norwest. Joined Norwest in 1986 as vice chairman, chief operating officer and head of the banking group. Before joining Norwest, he was a group executive and member of the policy committee at Citicorp and a division general manager at General Mills. Education: Graduated from Stanford University, where he earned his MBA and bachelor's and master's degrees in industrial engineering. Source: Wells Fargo & Co. Wells Fargo Chairman Dick Kovacevich has had to put his retirement...
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