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Steven W. Alesio is Chairman of the Board and CEO of D&B (Dun & Bradstreet Corporation).
After joining D&B in January 2001 as senior vice president Steve served in various senior leadership positions. In May 2002 Steve was named President and Chief Operating Officer and was elected to the Board of Directors. In January 2005 Steve was chosen to be the CEO and in May of that year he became Chairman of the Board.Under Steve's leadership and the direction of the company's Blueprint for Growth strategy D&B's performance has had very strong returns for shareholders and has become a model culture for employees.
Prior to joining D&B Steve spent 19 years with the American Express Company where he was groomed in marketing and then general management. His last responsibility at American Express was as president and general manager of the Business Services Group-a unit that served small businesses in the US with financial products. In that role Steve was also a member of the company's Policy and Planning Committee.
Steve is the founding sponsor and Senior Advisor for the non-profit All Stars Project of New Jersey which provides outside-of-school leadership development and performance-based education programming to thousands of inner-city young people in Newark and its surrounding communities.
Steve received a bachelor's degree from St. Francis College in 1976 and master's degree in business administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1981. | 