Gregory Abel, a vice -chairman supervising non -insurance operations for Berkshire Hathaway, meets shareholders in the exhibition hall during the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholders in Omaha, Nebrase, USA, 3 May 2024.
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Warren Buffett is planning handle With Berkshire Hathaway At the end of 2025, Greg Abel, who has been working for the legendary investor for over two decades and has long achievements as a business operator.
Abel has been on the board of Berkshire Hathaway since 2018, and his current title is the vice -chairman of the surgery. This role puts Berkshire in areas such as media, railways and retail in its scope.
The utility and energy industry is a place where 62-year-old Abel cut off his teeth before he became Buffetta's right man. He joined Berkshire for the first time when Buffett is hard I concluded a contract For the control package at Midamerican Energy, where Abel was the executive director in 1999. Later he was the general director of the company, which was renamed Berkshire Hathaway Energy.
One of Abel's key role in recent years was his commitment to the growing Berkshire position in five Japanese conglomerates. Abel said during the Saturday meeting of shareholders that he expected Berkshire to stay in Japanese investments for decades.
Abel has been known as Buffetta's heir since 2021, when the deceased Charlie Munger revealed the decision at the shareholders' assembly. A well -organized movement gave Abel time Win shareholders and other key stakeholders in Berkshire.
“Greg is ready. I don't have to do it.
Abel from Canada attended the University of Alberta and is a hockey lover. In his 2023 Annual letterBuffett said that he and Abel lived only a few blocks outside of omaha in the 90s, but they never met personally during this period.