Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel Becomes US Citizen at Baseball Game
Greg Abel, Warren Buffett's chosen successor, was sworn in as a US citizen at an Iowa Cubs naturalization ceremony in Des Moines.
Greg Abel just made it official. The incoming Berkshire Hathaway CEO took his oath of citizenship at a minor league baseball game in Des Moines, Iowa — and honestly, it doesn't get more American than that.
Abel, born in Edmonton, Canada in 1962, has lived in Iowa for years. Thursday night he joined roughly two dozen other new citizens from 16 different countries at the Iowa Cubs' annual naturalization ceremony. One ballpark, one oath, dozens of new Americans.
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The timing matters. Abel is set to take the reins from Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway, one of the most closely watched leadership transitions on Wall Street. Now the man who will run a trillion-dollar conglomerate is fully, officially American — paperwork and all.
For retail investors tracking Berkshire, this is a footnote, not a thesis-changer. But it does round out the picture of who Abel is: a low-key, long-tenured executive who's been quietly building roots in the heartland while preparing to step into the biggest job in American investing.
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