MEET 2013 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS AT MASS. COLLEGES

FILE - JANUARY 10: American Express announced on January 10, 2013 that the company would cut about 5,400 jobs, and employ 4 to 6 percent fewer people by the end of 2013, down from the current 63,500 employees. 405293 02: American Express Chairman and CEO Kenneth Chenault speaks May 13, 2002 during a homecoming ceremony for American Express at the company's world headquarters at the World Financial Center in New York City. Hundreds of employees and politicians attended the event marking the reopening of the company's lower Manhattan offices after the terrorist attacks September 11, 2001, when employees had to work out of temporary quarters. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

UMass Amherst

About 5,500 UMass Amherst undergraduates and their families will hear Kenneth Chenault, the chairman and CEO of American Express Company, speak that the university’s commencement on May 10.

Chenault joined American Express in 1981 and became president and chief operating officer in 1997. He moved into the CEO role in 2001.

UMass Amherst’s undergraduate ceremony will take place at the McGuirk Alumni Stadium at 5 p.m. The graduate exercises will occur in the Mullins Center at 9 a.m., and the Stockbridge commencement will be held at the Bowker Auditorium on May 11 at 10 a.m.

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