Frederick W. Smith

Frederick W. Smith ( born August 11, 1944 in Marks, Mississippi) is the founder, president and CEO of the courier and logistics company FedEx.

During his studies of economics at Yale was in a semester working with the idea for FedEx - which is presented as glorified today that it has assumed the status of an urban legend. Smith was a member of the Yale secret society Skull & Bones. After the bachelor's degree in 1966, he served for five years in the Marine Corps, among others. Pilot in Vietnam as a platoon leader and He learned the military logistics system to know thoroughly. Back in the USA, in 1971 he founded Federal Express in the year.

Smith is married for the second time and has ten children. According to Forbes, he was in 2009 with $ 1.65 billion ( 2008: 2 billion USD ) of the 212 wealthiest Americans.

In the movie Cast Away - Missing in 2000, Smith was working as a producer and came as part of a cameo appearance at the end of the film. The film is about a FedEx employee that decides to move to a deserted island after a FedEx plane crash.