Richard Galanti

Richard Galanti is the Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and Director of Costco. He joined Costco Wholesale Corporation in March 1984 as VP, Finance; and nine years later he became Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, positions he continues to hold today. In 1995, he also became Director of the Company. Prior to Costco, Richard was in investment banking with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation in New York, where the last transaction he worked on, in late 1983, was a private equity financing for a little start-up company located in Seattle... Costco Wholesale Corporation. Richard received his M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and his B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has also served a 9-year term on the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; and has been on the Foster School of Business Executive Education Advisory Board since 2000. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.