FILE – In this Monday, June 7, 2010, file photo, American Express Chairman and CEO Kenneth Chenault speaks during the New York University International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference in New York. The son of a dentist from New York’s Long Island, who grew up as a black man during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Chenault never expected to be CEO of a major company, let alone work 37 years at the same one. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)