John S. Reed

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For the president of the Santa Fe Railroad, see John Shedd Reed.

John Shepard Reed (born 1939) is the former Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. He previously served as Chairman and CEO of Citicorp, Citibank, and post-merger, Citigroup.

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Argentina and Brazil. He earned his undergraduate degrees in a 3-2 program from Washington and Jefferson College and MIT. He served two years in the U.S. Army before returning to get his Master's Degree in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Reed was heavily responsible for pushing for the adoption of the ATM around the USA, and led Citicorp through a perilous period in the early 1990s. He was approached by Sandy Weill to merge with Travelers Group after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (repealling the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932), allowing banking and insurance companies to merge. The result was Citigroup, where Reed was later ousted in a management shakeup with Weill.

Reed was asked to be interim CEO of the NYSE before the Richard Grasso over-compensation scandal. He accepted the job for a $1 salary and set up new governance rules as the NYSE became a public corporation.

Reed is a Director of Altria Group.


    • Augier, Mie. Making Management Matter: An Interview With John Reed. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2006, Vol. 5, No. 1, 84-100.


    Preceded by
    Walter Wriston
    Chairman of Citicorp
    1984 – 1998
    Succeeded by
    Sandy Weill
    Preceded by
    Richard Grasso
    Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange
    2003 – 2005
    Succeeded by
    Marsh Carter
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