- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful.
- Peter Oppenheimer
Peter Oppenheimer is Apple Inc.'s senior vice president and Chief Financial Officer. As CFO, Peter oversees the controller, treasury, investor relations, tax, information systems, internal audit, facilities, corporate development and human resources functions. He reports directly to Apple's CEO Steve Jobs and serves on the company's executive committee.
- Gil Amelio
Gilbert F. Amelio (born March 1, 1943 in New York City) is an American technology executive. He grew up in Miami, Florida, and received a bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Amelio worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International, but is best remembered as a former CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple. Amelio was CEO of National Semiconductor from May 27, 1991, …
- Jason O'Grady
Jason D. O'Grady is the editor of O'Grady's PowerPage, a Web site devoted to mobile technology and focusing on portable products from Apple Computer, Inc., specifically the MacBook, PowerBook, iBook and iPod. The PowerPage was founded in December of 1995 while Jason was troubleshooting a problem with his PowerBook 5300ce and a Global Village PC card modem.
- Mike Markkula
Armas Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr. (born 1942) is a legendary venture capitalist who provided early critical funding for Apple. After his stint there, he continued on to found Echelon Corporation, ACM Aviation, San Jose Jet Center and Rana Creek Habitat Restoration and to endow the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, where he now chairs the Board of Trustees.
- Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen is currently the President & Chief Operating Officer of Adobe Systems since 2005
- Larry Tesler
Lawrence G. (Larry) Tesler (born April 24, 1945) is a computer scientist working in the field of human-computer interaction. Tesler has worked at Xerox PARC, Apple Computer, Amazon.com, and Yahoo! Tesler studied computer science at Stanford University in the 1960s, and worked for a time at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. From 1973 to 1980, he was at Xerox PARC, where, among other things, he worked on the Gypsy word processor and Smalltalk.
- Steve Perlman
Steve Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor with over 70 patents in an array of multimedia and communications technologies. Perlman initially attracted notice as a principal scientist of Apple Computer, Inc., where he led the development efforts for much of the underlying multimedia technology incorporated into the color Macintosh, including the underpinnings of QuickTime technology. Perlman left Apple with other employees to join General Magic, …
- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, …
- Samir Arora
Samir Arora is the Chairman of Information Capital LLC, a venture capital fund. Information Capital, based in Woodside, California, invests in leading-edge big idea companies in consumer publishing, media & technology that help change the lives of millions of people.
- Arthur D. Levinson
Arthur D. Levinson , Ph. D. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
- Dave Zarzycki
Dave Zarzycki is a Senior Engineer in the BSD Technology Group at Apple Computer. He is the designer and maintainer of launchd, a core operating system component, which was introduced with the 10.4 release of Apple's Mac OS X operating system. In March 2000, after working as an intern at Apple for a number of years, Dave became a full time employee assigned to work on the Darwin operating system that Mac OS X is built on. Although other developers already worked on Darwin, …
- Danese Cooper
Danese Cooper is an advocate of open-source software. She is on the board of the Open Source Initiative. She came to public attention for her work at Sun Microsystems on promoting open source, and presently works at Intel. Her father named her after his Alfa Romeo. In her twenties, Cooper was in the Peace Corps and involved in management of the Renaissance Faire in California. She worked on the Options Trading Floor at the Pacific Exchange, …
- Bob Dylan
I'm Clay. I don't like talking in the morning. I enjoy playing a variety of musical instruments. I am fairly smart and my favorite subject in school is math. Music is pretty much my life. I enjoy playing sports as long as i don't have to practice them everyday. Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle is my favorite movie ever. I enjoy lifting weights and going to the gym. Ac/Dc is my favorite band and don't ask why they just are.
- Thomas Colby
Thomas Colby Vice President of Strategic Alliances In his role as Vice President of Strategic Alliances, Thomas Colby leads @Road alliance efforts in the Americas. These efforts are part of the @Road global alliance and business development initiative, which aims to engage and form new strategic relationships for accelerated international business and long-term revenue growth. Mr. Colby has more than 20 years of experience in the software and telecommunications industries.
- R Pagani
- Amy Shimano
- Jake Kauth
- Whurley
I am currently the Chief Technology Officer at Qlusters, Inc. and Chairman of The Open Management Consortium; http://www.qlusters.com; http://openmanagement.org; Prior to Qlusters, I was among the founders of Symbiot, the pioneering firm in the application of risk metrics to adaptive network security. I am also a founder of the OpenSIMS project, the world's first framework for collaborative "Community Centric Security." I am also a director of the Linux Top Gun and WNDC (World . . .
- Alexander Falk
Founded Altova GmbH in 1992; member of the W3C XML Schema WG that defined the XML Schema 1.0 specs; co-creator of the popular Altova XMLSpy tool suite for all things XML; established US subsidiary Altova Inc in 2001; responsible for marketing and corporate sales; negotiated key partnerships with other major industry players. Always interested in new technologies and creating new developer products that improve the software development cycle. If you need products or solutions for XML, . . .
- Anonymous Spocker
- Chuck Piercey
Strong balance of strategy, technical, marketing, business and communication skills for software and hardware products. Extensive experience in sales, product management, pricing, forecasting, market research, public relations, partner management, developer marketing and marquee account management for highly technical software and hardware products. Excel at distilling market opportunities and key customer requirements into realistic set of strategic business objectives and then building . . .
- Chris Garrigues
I've been in the IT field for most of my life, starting in the mid-70s as the "store teenager" at a computer store, programming my way through college and moving on to profession IT positions in a variety of environments from sole proprietorships to multi-nationals.
- David W Perleberg
David is an innovative young entrepreneur with a passion for ideas, culture, adventure travel, and marketing. In addition to his work in the Sponsorship & Sports Marketing worlds, David is an active skiier, surfer, artist, coffee shop psychologist, and reader of The Economist.
- Michael Arent
Vice President SAP UI Standards Worldwide SAP Labs Palo Alto, California
- Leigh Caplan
born and raised in seattle. took philadelphia by storm for three years. moved back home in 2006. one.
- Heather Patrick
Love the out doors and live music! I work very hard but play just as hard! Born in California and moved to Austin about six years ago from San Francisco.
- Joel D'Alessandro
- Mark Aitala
problem solver / consensus builder / process streamliner / globally minded / fun
- Patty Tulloch
- Diane Brundage
Diane Brundage Senior Vice President Membership and Partnership Development Diane Brundage is the Sr. Vice President of Membership and Partnership Development for AFSMI. In that capacity, she is responsible for all membership acquisition and retention as well as the marketing of the association’s various programs into the industry at large. Ms. Brundage has over 25 years experience in sales and marketing in the technology and software sector.
- Kirsten Nelson
Kirsten Nelson Kirsten Nelson is a marketeer, writer, and editor. She specializes in turning complex, abstract product messages into clear, compelling benefits. Her resume includes staff positions at Apple, Adobe and VA Linux, as well her consulting firm, Clear Ink, whose clients include IBM, Oracle, Sybase, and many start-ups. She holds an MBA from San
- Craig Brenner
20 years of worldwide experience as a successful hands-on senior executive, business development and marketing professional with broad-based business skills including strategy, financial, technology and operational management. Responsibilities have encompassed all aspects of business development from partner identification through closing and the establishment of joint collaboration, OEM, co-marketing and IP relationships-resulting in a solid track record building global strategic . . .
- Jim Spohrer
Jim Spohrer Dr. Jim Spohrer is the Director of Almaden Services Research at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. IBM Global Services (IGS) is a people-intensive, information-intensive business of over 170,000 professionals world-wide, accounting for almost half of IBM's yearly revenues, and innovation for IGS and similar entities is the focus of Spohrer's group.
- Mike Laster
Over 10 years of experience in designing multithreaded and distributed systems on the NeXTStep and Mac OS X platforms.
- Jenny Greenleaf
- Larry Kenyon
- Olivier Gutknecht
- Steven Marcek
Steven Marcek Vice President and Chief Technology Officer As chief technology officer for FileMaker, Inc., Steven Marcek identifies and builds new technology to enhance the FileMaker software product line, and new and related products for the FileMaker Pro line. FileMaker, Inc. is a worldwide leader in desktop-to-web database software. Marcek is an 25-year software development veteran.
- Lawrence Sonsini
Larry W. Sonsini Director since 1988 Mr. Sonsini, age 59, has been a Member and Chairman of the Executive