Nearly half of the 20 CEOs meeting with President Obama Wednesday are from technology and financial services companies, while noticeably absent are executives from oil and retail companies and businesses partially-controlled by the federal government, General Motors and AIG.
Obama is hostingthe meeting with some of the biggest names in the boardroom and on the S&P 500 to gather suggestions on how to pump up the US economy.
Of the attendees’ companies, the median market cap is $52 billion and the median number of employees is 80,000. Thirteen of the 18 publicly-traded companies were down on Wednesday.