- 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, …
- Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang
Jerry Yang Chih-Yuan (born November 1968) is a Taiwanese American entreprenuer, co-founder with David Filo and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. He is also one of the two Chief Yahoo!s and board director of the company. As of 2007 his net worth is estimated to be US$2.2 billion and is ranked 432nd among the world's richest people according to Forbes.
- Martha Stewart
Martha’s public turnaround on fur began this spring, when she responded from jail to a letter from PETA Vice President Dan Mathews , explaining that the fur she famously wore the day of her sentencing was fake. Martha credits her vegetarian daughter, Alexis , who costars in her new show, The Apprentice: Martha Stewart , with making her aware of animal issues.
- Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees. He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy.
- Jim Smith
Jim Smith (born October 17 1940) is a former English football (soccer) player and is now working as a manager. He currently manages Oxford United and also serves on the club's board of directors. His nickname is The Bald Eagle.
- John Howard
John Howard is a British businessman/entrepreneur who plays a significant role in many companies in East Anglia, including being a member of the board of directors of Cambridge United F.C..
- Robert Gates
Robert Michael Gates, born September 25 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W. Bush as Director of Central Intelligence. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University and was a member of several corporate boards.
- Vince McMahon
Vincent Kennedy McMahon (born August 24, 1945), better known as Vince McMahon or Mr. McMahon, is an American wrestling promoter, wrestler, and film producer. He is the Chairman of the WWE Board of Directors and majority shareholder of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE).
- Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23 1905 - May 10 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts.
- Andrew S. Rappaport
Andrew S. Rappaport or Andy Rappaport (born 1957) is an American Silicon Valley venture capitalist partner in August Capital an information technology venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. In the last three years he has become recognized as one of the largest American Democratic Party donors and philanthropist with his wife Deborah Rappaport. Andy Rappaport joined August Capital in 1996.
- Sanjay Kumar
Sanjay Kumar (born Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1962) was the Chairman & CEO of Computer Associates International (now CA, Inc.), until April 2004. He emigrated with his family to the US in 1976 to escape civil unrest in his native Sri Lanka. The family originally settled in South Carolina. He attended Furman University from 1980 to 1983, but left without completing a degree. Kumar became an employee of Computer Associates in 1987, when it acquired UCCEL Corp.
- Stan O'Neal
E. Stanley "Stan" O'Neal is the present Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was a member of the board of directors of General Motors from 2001 through 2006.
- Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatch (born March 22, 1934) is a Republican United States Senator from Utah, serving since 1977. Hatch is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, where he serves on the subcommittees on International Trade, Taxation and IRS Oversight, and Health Care. Hatch is also on the Select Committee on Intelligence, where he is the Ranking Republican, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, …
- Garry Betty
Charles Garrett "Garry" Betty (4 March [[1957] - 2 January 2007) was President and CEO of EarthLink, a large American Internet service provider, from 1996 until his death. Betty was born in Huntsville, Alabama and grew up in Columbus, Georgia. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia where he received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1979.
- Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the company's Board of Directors. Phillips' responsibilities encompass global field operations including consulting, marketing, sales, alliances and channels, and customer programs, as well as corporate strategy. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Phillips was a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley in its technology group. With the firms Kidder Peabody (now defunct) and Sound View Technologies.
- William Clay Ford Jr.
William Clay "Bill" Ford Jr. (born May 3, 1957), is the great-grandson of Henry Ford, and serves as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company. Ford also served as the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Operating Officer until turning over those roles to Boeing executive Alan Mulally in September 2006.
- John I. Jenkins
The Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. (born in Omaha, Nebraska) is a Roman Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and the 17th and current president of the University of Notre Dame. Father Jenkins was selected to replace outgoing president Fr. Edward "Monk" Malloy, C.S.C. by the University's Board of Trustees on April 30, 2004 and assumed the office of president on July 1, 2005. His formal inauguration took place on September 23, 2005.
- John Porter
John Porter (1838-1922) was a British Thoroughbred flat racing trainer whose horses won the English Triple Crown three times. Born in Rugeley, Staffordshire, the United Kingdom's National Horseracing Museum says that John Porter "was undoubtedly the most successful trainer of the Victorian era." Porter trained horses that won twenty three of the British Classic Races, including seven in England's most prestigious race, the Epsom Derby.
- Lester Crown
Lester Crown (born 1926) is the son of Chicago financier Henry Crown (d. 1990), who created Material Service with two brothers in 1919, which merged with General Dynamics in 1959. He has been a perennial member of the Forbes 400 list since 1982. Lester controls family holdings, including large stakes in Maytag, Hilton Hotels, Alltell, Aspen Skiing Company, New York's Rockefeller Center, and pro basketball's Chicago Bulls. He also holds a stake in the New York Yankees, …
- Jorma Ollila
Jorma Jaakko Ollila is the Chairman (1992–) and CEO of Nokia Corporation (1992–2006) and Member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company (2000–), UPM-Kymmene (1997–), and Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd. (1996–). As of June 1 2006 he became the Non-Executive Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Non-Executive Chairman of Nokia.
- Clayton Bennett
Clayton "Clay" I. Bennett is a prominent billionare businessman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Clay is the husband of Louise Gaylord Bennett, the daughter of Oklahoma City media mogul Edward L. Gaylord. Bennett is the chairman of Dorchester Capital with its headquarters in downtown Oklahoma City and is also the chairman emeritus of the board of directors of the Oklahoma Heritage Association. Bennett is the chairman of the Professional Basketball Club LLC, …
- Bill Leonard
William R. Leonard (born 1947) is a Republican U.S. politician, who has been a member of the California State Board of Equalization since his election to the board in 2002. After earning his B.A. in history from the University of California, Irvine, Leonard worked in real estate and property management.
- A. G. Lafley
Alan George Lafley (born June 13, 1947) is the CEO and an executive director of Procter & Gamble. He joined P&G upon his graduation, in 1977. He assumed the CEO office in 2000. He is American and was born in Keene, New Hampshire. He graduated from Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois and received a B.A. from Hamilton College in 1969 and a MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977 (after serving in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War).
- Edward Lampert
Edward S. "Eddie" Lampert (born July 19 1962) is an American investor, financier and businessman. He is the chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD) and founder, chairman, and CEO of ESL Investments. Until May, 2007 he was a director of AutoNation, Inc. He previously served as a director of AutoZone, Inc. from 1999 to 2006. Lampert graduated from Yale University in 1984 (B.A., economics, summa cum laude), where he was a member of Skull and Bones and Phi Beta Kappa.
- James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson (born May 27, 1931) in Denver, Colorado is the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at Pepperdine University in California, and a professor emeritus at UCLA. From 1961 to 1987 he was a professor of government at Harvard University. He has a Ph.D. (1959) and masters degree (1957) from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Redlands (1952). He is a former Chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime (1966), …
- Michel de Rosen
Michel de Rosen (born 1951-02-18) is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of ViroPharma Incorporated (since 2002-08-22), President and Chief Executive Officer (since August 2000), and Director (since May 2000.) From 1982 to 1999, de Rosen held several positions in Rhone-Poulenc (France) and Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (USA) (now Sanofi-Aventis), including Chief Executive Officer from May 1995 until December 1999, …
- Richard Kovacevich
Richard "Dick" Kovacevich is the Chairman of Wells Fargo. A native of Tacoma, Washington, he was born on October 30, 1943. A graduate of Stanford Business School, Kovacevich worked for General Mills before joining Citicorp. According to some calculations, he was the 7th highest paid CEO in the world in 2003. In addition to Wells Fargo, he sits on the Boards of Target, Cisco Systems and Cargill. He is also a Trustee at the California Institute of Technology.
- Sean O'Keefe
Sean O'Keefe (born January 27, 1956) was the tenth Administrator of NASA, leading the space agency from December 2001 to February 2005. His tenure was marked by a mix of triumph and tragedy, ranging from the tremendous success of the Mars rovers to the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia. O'Keefe is currently the chancellor of Louisiana State University, a job he took after resigning from his NASA position.
- James McNerney
Walter James "Jim" McNerney, Jr., is an American businessman. On June 30, 2005 he was named the CEO of The Boeing Company. Prior to that, McNerney was the Chairman and Chief Executive of 3M. He had been a member of the Boeing board of directors since 2001. He is also a member of the board of directors of Procter & Gamble. McNerney is a current member of the Northwestern University Board of Trustees. McNerney, 57, oversees the strategic direction of the Chicago-based, …
- Safra A. Catz
Safra A. Catz (born 1961 in Holon, Israel) has been the Chief Financial Officer of Oracle Corporation since November 2005. She has also been a President of the company since January 2004 and a member of the company's Board of Directors since October 2001. She has been at Oracle Corporation since April 1999. Prior to joining Oracle, Catz was at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a global investment bank, …
- John Gallagher
Mr John Gallagher QC is a Barrister and Queen's Counsel whose practice involves civil and criminal law. He is currently a Director of the Board of the public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was first appointed to the ABC board for a five year term on 9 December 1999, and then reappointed for a three year term from 24 February 2005. He was appointed deputy chairman until his term expires on 23 February 2008.
- Lorenzo Zambrano
Lorenzo H. Zambrano Treviño is a Mexican businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of CEMEX, one of the largest cement companies in the world. Zambrano was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León into an upper-class family. He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies in 1966 and an MBA from Stanford Business School in 1968. In 1968 he joined CEMEX, a cement company founded by his grandfather in 1906.
- Linda McMahon
Linda Marie Edwards-McMahon (born October 4 1948 in New Bern, North Carolina) is the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. and is the wife of World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon. Linda has served on the Board of Directors since 1980 and was largely responsible for the growth of WWE merchandising. In addition, she is widely involved with the charitable work of WWE.
- Lester Thurow
Lester Carl Thurow (1938) is a former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of numerous bestsellers on mainstream economics. Thurow was born on in Livingston, Montana. He got his B.A. in political economy from Williams College in 1960, where he was Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, and a Tyng Scholar. Thurow was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and went to Balliol College, Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, graduating in 1962 with first class honors.
- John L. Thornton
John L. Thornton is Professor and Director of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is a former President and Co-COO of Goldman Sachs. In 1983, Thornton founded and developed Goldman Sachs' European mergers and acquisitions business. He served as co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International in London from 1995 to 1996. Thornton was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia from 1996 to 1998, where he expanded the firm's regional franchise during the Asian financial crisis.
- Jeffrey O. Henley
Jeffrey O. Henley (Jeff Henley) is the Chairman of Oracle Corporation. He has held this position since January 2004, prior to which he was the Chief Financial Officer for 13 years from March 1991 to July 2004. He is also a member of the company's Board of Directors. Jeff Henley holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from UCSB and an MBA in Finance from UCLA.
- Jerry York
Jerome B. York, commonly known as Jerry York, is an American businessman, and the Chairman, President and CEO of Harwinton Capital. He was the former CFO of IBM and Chrysler. He was also CEO of Micro Warehouse and joined the board of directors of Apple Inc. in 1997. He is a chief aide to Kirk Kerkorian and his Tracinda investment company. Most recently, Kerkorian helped elect York to the board of directors of General Motors, …
- Paul Rogers
Paul Grant Rogers (born June 4, 1921) is an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Florida. A Democrat, Rogers served in the U.S. House of Representatives as the member from Florida's 11th congressional district. Rogers was born in Ocilla, Georgia, on June 4, 1921. He attended the University of Florida, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942, and after graduating joined the U.S. Army, serving from 1942 to 1946.
- John F. Smith Jr.
John Francis "Jack" Smith, Jr. (born April 6, 1938 in Worcester, MA) is currently the non-executive chairman of the board of directors of Delta Air Lines. Smith has been a member of Delta's board of directors since 2000. From 1996 to 2003, Smith was chairman of the board of directors of General Motors, and was that company's CEO from 1992 to 2000. He joined GM as a payroll auditor in 1961, moving to its financial group in New York City in 1966.
- Richard Fairbank
Richard Fairbank founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1988, and is currently the Chairman and CEO. He also serves on the board of directors of MasterCard International, and is the Chairman of MasterCard International's U.S. Region Board of Directors. He is a member of the Stanford Business School Advisory Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, and the board of directors of the BITS Technology Forum.