The man who 'changed the world': Fred Smith to step down after 50-year FedEx journey

As FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith prepares to clear his desk to make way for Raj Subramanian as the next head of the Memphis-headquartered integrator, this article from Sky looks back at what is frankly, an extraordinary career: a contemporary of George Dubya Bush and John Kerry at university; a Marine platoon leader in Vietnam, where he earned a chest-full of medals and which he always said taught him the most important lessons when it came to creating FedEx; ...