What's in Capital One's CEO's Wallet? An $800 Million Fortune
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It’s after midnight and Richard Fairbank steps off the ice in a sweat. As teammates trudge toward the locker room, he unlaces his skates and explains how he never planned to take up hockey, let alone join an amateur league.
“When my kids learned to play, I did too,” just to keep up with them, says Fairbank, 64, a father of eight. Two decades later, he co-owns the suburban Virginia rink and the professional team that practices there, the Washington Capitals. Along the way, he managed to build the seventh-biggest commercial bank in the U.S., almost from scratch.