BlackRock Chairman & CEO Laurence Fink
Title: Former Vice Chairman
CEO: Laurence D. Fink, $23.8 million
Pay difference: $9.8 million
Grossman's compensation got a boost following Blackrock's 2009 acquisition of Barclays Global Investors, where he had been CEO. He ultimately pulled in close to $34 million during his year at the firm, though he forfeited a stock award worth $10.7 million upon leaving at the end of 2010. Still, not bad for a year's work.
--J.O.Source:
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