- Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, New York) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, television personality and author. He is the CEO of Trump Organization, an American-based real estate developer, and the founder of Trump Entertainment, which operates several casinos. He received a great deal of publicity following the success of his reality television show, … - Clive Cussler
Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15, 1931 in Aurora, Illinois) is an American adventure novelist and successful amateur marine archaeologist. - Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell is the current Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit Inc. He formerly worked for Apple Inc. (as VP of Marketing), Claris (as CEO), and GO Corporation (as CEO). Son of a local school official, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He attended Columbia University and starred in football. After graduation he coached Columbia's football team for two unremarkable seasons. - Mike McGavick
Michael S. "Mike" McGavick (born February 7, 1958 in Seattle, Washington) is a former American business executive and a graduate of the University of Washington. McGavick was a Republican candidate for the US Senate seat held by Maria Cantwell in the 2006 election, but Cantwell retained her seat by a wide 16% election margin. - Peter Parker
Sir Peter Parker KBE LVO (30 August 1924 - 28 April 2002) was a British businessman, best known as chairman of the British Railways Board from 1976 to 1983. - David Evans
David John Evans (born Edmonton, London 23 April 1935) is an English business executive and Conservative politician. From a working-class background, he failed his Eleven-plus examination (meaning that he could not go to grammar school) and later attended Tottenham Technical College. As a youngster he showed promise as a footballer and cricketer and played for Aston Villa, although without making any first team appearances. - Kyle Petty
Kyle Eugene Petty (Born June 2, 1960 in Randleman, North Carolina) is an American NASCAR driver, the son and grandson of racing legends Richard Petty and Lee Petty, respectively. He drives the #45 Marathon Petroleum Company Dodge Charger for Petty Enterprises. The Marathon Petroleum Company announced the sponsorship on August 8, 2006. Marathon will remain the Sponsor through the 2008 season. Petty originally did not intend to become a race car driver. - Polly Bergen
Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin on July 14, 1930) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, singer, and entrepreneur. - Walden O'Dell
Walden "Wally" O'Dell was chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Diebold, a US-based security and financial products company. He was an active fundraiser for George W. Bush's re-election campaign and wrote in a fund-raising letter dated August 13, 2003, that he was committed "to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President." His involvement with the campaign raised concerns that, … - Larry Thompson
Larry Thompson was a deputy Attorney General of the United States under United States President George W. Bush until August of 2003. From 1982 to 1986, he served as U.S. attorney for the northern District of Georgia and led the Southeastern Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. The "New York Times" describes him as "a moderate" who is "respected by both Democrats and Republicans." While Deputy Attorney General, … - Tom Coughlin
Thomas M. "Tom" Coughlin is a former vice chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and confidant of founder Sam Walton. He began his career with the retailer in 1978 in the company’s security division, and was named vice chairman of Wal-Mart and elected to the Wal-Mart Board of Directors in April of 2003. He stepped down December 6, 2004. As of July 2005, he is the subject of a United States Department of Justice investigation, as well as a lawsuit by Wal-Mart, … - Alan Schwartz
Alan Schwartz is the President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. He assumed that position on June 25, 2001. Schwartz has worked at Bear Stearns since 1976, and is a 1972 graduate of Duke University. He is currently the chairman of the Board of Visitors at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke. - Robert Horton
Sir Robert Horton (born 18 August 1939) is a UK businessman. He is the eldest of three brothers, David Horton and Mark Horton. He spent 30 years working for BP; He became Chief Executive and Chairman of the Board of BP in 1989, and was forced out in connection to a "slump in performance" He was Chairman of Railtrack from 1993 - 1999 and led the organisation through the early years of its existence including an industrial dispute from June to September 1994. - James McDermott
James J. McDermott, Jr. was the former CEO and chairman of Keefe, Bruyette, and Woods. He was arrested and charged with insider trading in December 1999 by federal authorities. He had revealed details about an upcoming merger (in 1997) with his Canadian lover Marylin Star, an adult films actress with whom he was having an adulterous relationship. At the time of his affair he had been living in Briarcliff Manor, New York with his wife and children. He remains married. - Greg Papadopoulos
Greg Papadopoulos, Ph.D. is the current Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Sun Microsystems. He is the creator and lead proponent for Redshift, a theory on whether technology markets are over or under-served by Moore's Law. Papadopoulos achieved a B.A. in systems science from the University of California, San Diego, … - Graham Day
Sir (Judson) Graham Day (born 1933) is a Canadian and British business executive, lawyer and corporate director who lives in Hantsport, Nova Scotia. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he graduated from Dalhousie Law School with an LL.B. in 1959. He was chairman and CEO of British Shipbuilders from 1983 to 1986, and chairman and CEO of the Rover Group from 1986 until 1991. He was chancellor of Dalhousie University from 1994 to 2001. - Susan King
Susan King (born December 25, 1956) is a British television presenter who hosted an educational programme named "Horses Galore" which ran from 1977 to 1980. Before that she had hosted "Country Search". She now works for HTV. She was born in Guildford, Surrey, England. - Richard Lindner
Richard G. Lindner (born 1954 or 1955) is currently the chief financial officer and senior executive vice president of AT&T Inc.. He has served as CFO since 2004 when he was appointed to the position at the former SBC. He attended the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. - Mark Harrington
Mark Harrington was born in Portland, Maine. A Dorothy M. Kelly and Melborne Wesley Cummings Scholar, he earned a marketing degree from the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University. Harrington has been instrumental in some of the most significant recent business transactions in the Philadelphia region. - Philippe Dauman
Philippe Dauman is the CEO of Viacom. He has served at this post since September of 2006. Dauman is a longtime associate of the company's chairman Sumner Redstone. Dauman served from 1994 to 2000 as a member of Viacom's executive committee and as executive vice president in charge of strategic transactions, legal and government affairs, human resources and administration, supervising Paramount Pictures Entertainment, Showtime Networks and Simon & Schuster. - Samantha Cameron
Samantha Gwendoline Cameron (born 18 April, 1971) is an English business executive and wife of the Conservative Party leader David Cameron. Born Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield, she is the eldest daughter of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet, three times a descendant from King Charles II of England, by his first marriage to Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones (now the Viscountess Astor). - Bill Koch
William Ingraham Koch (born May 3, 1940) is a wealthy American businessman, sailor, and collector. His boat was the winner of the America's Cup in 1992. - Sergio Monsalve
Sergio Monsalve is a Principal at Norwest Venture Partners NVP. Sergio brings to Norwest Venture Partners over 12 years of operational experience in marketing, product management, business development, sales and finance from a wide range of business and consumer technology companies. Sergio is focused on investments in the consumer internet, media and software sectors. Prior to NVP, Sergio was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Trinity Ventures, … - Ali Ettefagh
Dr. Ali Ettefagh is the director of Highmore Global Corporation, an investment company in emerging markets of Eastern Europe, CIS, and the Middle East. He has co-authored several books on trade conflict, resolution of international trade disputes, conflicts in letters of credit, trade-related banking transactions, sovereign debt, arbitration and dispute resolutions and publications specific to the oil and gas, communication, aviation and finance sectors. - Lloyd Levitin
Professor Lloyd A. Levitin, (October 25, 1932 -) is an American businessman, former business executive, and currently professor of clinical finance and business economics at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. He teaches financial analysis and valuation courses in the full-time MBA and undergraduate programs. He has published articles on corporate diversification and accountants' scope of liability for defective financial reports. - Ann Baskins
Ann O'Neil Baskins (born August 51955 in Red Bluff, California, USA) is former General Counsel for Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Baskins was linked to the HP pretexting scandal. On September 28, 2006, following public disclosure of the matter, Baskins resigned effective immediately, hours before she was to appear as a witness before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce at which she would later invoke the Fifth Amendment to refuse to answer questions. - Adrian Sexton
Adrian Sexton, EVP of Digital, Participant Productions Adrian Sexton is Executive Vice President in charge of Digital at Participant Productions. Reporting to CEO Jim Berk, Sexton oversees Participant’s expansion into global media, the production of new programs and digital distribution. Sexton will also lead new digital initiative partnerships and strategic acquisitions. Prior, Adrian was a founding member of TAG Strategic. - Robert Greenberg
Robert Greenberg (1954-), is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1954. He has composed more than 45 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for the The Teaching Company, receiving critical and popular acclaim. Greenberg earned a B.A. in music, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and received a Ph.D. in music composition, … - Mike Fahey
Michael Gahan "Mike" Fahey, (born December 20, 1943, Kansas City, Missouri) took office as the 49th and current mayor of Omaha, Nebraska on June 11, 2001. Fahey won his second term as mayor in the May 10, 2005 election. He is a member of the Democratic Party and is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, … - Ozires Silva
Ozires Silva, is the founder of Embraer and a famous Brazilian entrepreneur. He was born in Bauru, São Paulo state. In 1952, Ozires graduated on Escola de Aeronáutica do Campo dos Afonsos (Rio de Janeiro) as a military pilot. He then served the Brazilian Air Force for 4 years in the Amazon rainforest region. In 1962, Ozires graduated on Aeronautics Technological Institute (ITA) as an aeronautical engineer. - Charles Clinton Spaulding
Charles Clinton Spaulding (born August 1, 1874 in Columbus County, North Carolina - died August 1, 1952, in Durham, North Carolina) was a prominent business leader who founded North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company into American largest black-owned business, with assets of over 40 million at his death. He started out as a dishwasher and later, general manager of a grocery company when John Merrick, a progressive barber, and A. M. Moore, a practicing physician, … - Nancy R. Heinen
Nancy Regina Heinen was the General Counsel and Secretary for Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) between September 1997 and May of 2006. Before Apple, she was the General Counsel at NeXT (NeXT was purchased by Apple in March of 1996). At NeXT, she served as the first in-house counsel for the company, and created and managed a four-member legal team. - Narinder Singh Kapany
Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany is widely acknowledged as the father of optical fiber. Earlier, Irish physicist John Tyndall had shown that light could travel in curve inside a material (water). In 1952, this earlier work led Kapany to conduct studies that led to the invention of optical fiber. Narinder Singh Kapany is of Sikh Punjabi origin, he was educated in England and has spent over 45 years in the United States. - Quang X. Pham
Quang X. Pham a Vietnamese-American was born in 1964, in Saigon, South Vietnam. - Padmasree Warrior
Padmasree Warrior is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) Warrior joined Motorola in 1984 and was appointed its CTO in 2003. Warrior is responsible for the Motorola’s $4.0 billion research and development investment and the efforts of 25,000 engineers. She is an external director on the Board of Corning Corporation (NYSE:GLW). She is one of the most elevated Indian women in the US technology sector. - Charles Barker
Charles Barker was an English advertising agent. Charles Barker was born in 1791, the son of an attorney. Working as a King’s messenger in France, he returned to England in 1812, bringing news of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. Instead of delivering it directly to the King, Charles delivered the news to Nathan Mayer Rothschild, who used the advance knowledge to make a killing on the Stock Exchange. In return, Rothschild set Charles up in business, … - Leslie Grade
Leslie Grade (1916-1979) was a British agent and executive with The Grade Organisation. He was born Laszlo Winogradsky in Tokmak, Ukraine. He and his brothers Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont became three of the leading figures in theatre management. His son Michael Grade became a leading television executive and is now Chairman of ITV. He has two children by his second marriage, to Audrey Smith - Anita (now Anita Land), a theatrical agent and Antony, … - Ron Klain
Ron Klain , thank you for being with us. RON KLAIN , FMR. GORE CHIEF OF STAFF: Thanks for having me, Judy. - Kathy Garver
Kathy Garver (born December 13, 1945) is a television, stage, screen, and voice actress. Born in Long Beach, California, her full name is Kathleen Marie Allison Garver. Garver is best known for playing Cissy Davis, the eldest sibling on the original TV series "Family Affair". She is one of the last two surviving cast members of the series, along with Johnny Whitaker, who shares the same birthday with her, … - Chris Pearce
Christopher Pearce (born 1 March, 1963), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since July 2001, representing the Division of Aston, Victoria. He was born in Lismore, New South Wales, and was educated at Monash University in Melbourne. He was a business executive before entering politics. He was a member of the Knox City Council 1997-2000. Pierce was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer in October 2004.
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