Who’s Greg Abel, Warren Buffett’s successor at Berkshire Hathaway?

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Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett over the weekend introduced plans to step down as chief government beginning subsequent yr.

Greg Abel, the vice chairman of non-insurance operations at Berkshire, obtained unanimous approval from the board to succeed Buffett, who, after greater than half a century, plans to relinquish the highest job. 

Abel will begin his tenure as Berkshire’s new CEO on Jan. 1, 2026.

Buffett’s deliberate successor has held his present place at Berkshire since January 2018 and chairs Berkshire Hathaway Power, the subsidiary that owns corporations reminiscent of PacifiCorp, Northern Pure Fuel and BHE Renewables.

Greg Abel, heart, is presently the vice chairman of non-insurance operations at Berkshire Hathaway. (Dan Brouillette/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

Abel has an extended historical past within the power sector, having labored at CalEnergy and later MidAmerican Power Holdings Firm after CalEnergy purchased it and assumed its title within the late Nineties. 

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He joined Berkshire in 1999, when the conglomerate bought a majority curiosity in MidAmerican Power Holdings Firm. He was president of MidAmerican on the time of that deal and would finally change into CEO of the agency.

His first job out of faculty was at PricewaterhouseCoopers, in accordance with the Horatio Alger Affiliation of Distinguished People, a nonprofit the place he holds the function of president.

Abel, a Canadian, attended the College of Alberta, acquiring a commerce diploma. 

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Previous to recommending Abel to change into Berkshire’s subsequent CEO, Buffett had made clear on quite a few events that Abel was his best choice for a successor.

Berkshire Hathaway shareholders stroll by a video display screen on the firm’s annual assembly in Omaha, Nebraska, on Could 4, 2013. (REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photograph / Reuters Pictures)

The “Oracle of Omaha” instructed CNBC in 2021 that Berkshire’s administrators have been “in agreement that if something were to happen to me tonight, it would be Greg who’d take over tomorrow morning.” 

Warren Buffett attends the “Becoming Warren Buffett” World Premiere at The Museum of Trendy Artwork on Jan. 19, 2017 in New York Metropolis. (J. Kempin/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

Buffett wrote in his 2023 letter to shareholders that Abel “in all respects is ready to be CEO of Berkshire tomorrow.” Moreover, extra just lately, in his 2024 letter, he mentioned it “won’t be long before Greg Abel replaces me as CEO and will be writing the annual letters.”

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Berkshire mentioned Buffett will keep chairman when Abel assumes the CEO job in the beginning of subsequent yr.

The conglomerate generated $89.7 billion in whole revenues within the first quarter.

Berkshire’s market capitalization hovered north of $1 trillion as of late Monday morning.

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