First black chief executive of FTSE 100 appointed
THE first black chief executive of a FTSE 100 company was appointed yesterday when Prudential named Tidjane Thiam as its next boss.
With a hand on Abraham Lincoln's inaugural bible, and before a crowd stretching across the National Mall toward where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his dream of racial equality, the 47-year-old Obama was sworn in as the first black American president by Chief Justice John Roberts.