The CEO of Dow Jones from 1991 to 2006, Kann is married to former Wall Street Journal publisher Karen Elliott House. He won a Pulitzer for reporting on the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.

Born in Princeton, NJ, Kann graduated from Harvard University with a degree in government and rose to prominence as the Wall Street Journal's first resident reporter in Vietnam in 1967. Spending nearly a decade as a roving reporter based out of Hong Kong, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished reporting on international affairs in 1971 for his coverage of the Indo-Pakistan War in Bangladesh. Named the editor and publisher of the first Asian edition of the WSJ, he returned to the United States in the early 80s, when he was named an associate publisher for the US WSJ and vice president of the Dow Jones. In an extraordinary feat, Kann managed to juggle serving as the publisher of the WSJ from 1989-2002 and being CEO of the Dow Jones from 1991-2006. After decades leading two major American enterprises, Kann's slowed down a bit, working as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and as a near lifelong member of the Council on Foreign Relations. [Image via AP, with Rich Zannino]