5 Highest Paid CEOs in the US and Their College Degrees

4. Stephen Scherr

College Degree: Arts

Stephen Scherr, CEO of Hertz and a Board member since February 2022, has a distinguished career spanning 28 years at Goldman Sachs, where he held several strategic and operational leadership roles. Notably, Scherr served as CFO from 2018 to 2021 and played key roles in launching Goldman Sachs’ consumer banking division, Marcus, in 2016, and the AppleCard partnership with Apple, Inc., in 2019. His tenure at Goldman Sachs included positions such as Chief Strategy Officer and head of Latin American operations. Scherr initially joined Goldman Sachs in 1993 as an investment banker after practicing law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.