John A. Allison IV

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A former chairman and CEO of BB&T Corporation, a North Carolina-based financial holding company, from 1989 to 2008, and a member of the company’s board of directors. He is known for dramatically increasing the bank’s assets to make it one of the largest banks in the United States. 
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Born in 1948 in North Carolina, Allison earned an MBA from Duke University and joined BB&T in 1971 as a manager in the financial analysis department. 

Allison is also a strong proponent of Ayn Rand’s objectivist philosophy and has donated several million dollars to university programs to support study in this discipline.

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