Frederick Wallace "Fred" Smith is the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx.
On June 18, 1971, Smith founded Federal Express with his $4 million inheritance (approximately $23 million in 2013 dollars),[10] and raised $91 million (approximately $525 million in 2013 dollars)[10] in venture capital. In 1973, the company began offering service to 25 cities, and it began with small packages and documents and a fleet of 14 Falcon 20 (DA-20) jets. His focus was on developing an integrated air-ground system, which had never been done before. Smith developed FedEx on the business idea of a shipment version of a bank clearing house where one bank clearing house was located in the middle of the representative banks and all their representatives would be sent to the central location to exchange materials.[4]
FedEx Corporation is an American global courier delivery services company headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.[4] The name "FedEx" is a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company's original air division, Federal Express, which was used from 1973 until 2000.
