- Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. - Carl Icahn
Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American billionaire financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor. - 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, … - David Miscavige
David Miscavige is the successor to L. Ron Hubbard , current head of Scientology (Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center). - John Warner
John Warner (b. January 22, 1943) is an American attorney and judge who is currently one of the five Associate Justices on the Montana Supreme Court. Warner won an unopposed retention vote in 2006; his current term will expire in 2014. Warner was born and raised in Great Falls, Montana. He attended Montana State University in Missoula, from which he earned a B.A. in history and political science in 1965. In 1967, he graduated from the University of Montana School of Law. - Carrot Top
Carrot Top, born Scott Thompson on February 25, 1965 (though he has claimed in interviews to be born in 1967 and 1969) in Los Angeles, California is an American prop comedian famous for his red hair. According to his official site Carrot Top spends fifteen weeks a year doing live performances in Las Vegas (currently performing at the Luxor Hotel) and does over 100 shows a year on tour. His comedy routine is most known for his comedic use of props. - Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), … - John Chambers
John T. Chambers is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc.. Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 as senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Operations. Since January 1995, when he assumed the role of CEO, Chambers has grown the company from $1.2 billion in annual revenues to its current run-rate of approximately $30 billion. In November 2006, he was named Chairman of the Board, in addition to his CEO role. - Sumner Redstone
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, he is majority owner of Midway Games, Viacom and CBS Corporation. - Rick Wagoner
George Richard "Rick" Wagoner, Jr. (born February 9, 1953) is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Rick Wagoner was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia and graduated from John Randolph Tucker High School. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University in 1975 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977. After Harvard, he joined GM as an analyst in the treasurer's office. - Helmut Panke
Helmut Panke was Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Munich, between 2002 and September 2006. Panke was Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Munich, between 2002 and September 2006. He has been with the company since 1982, when he joined as head of Planning and Controlling in the Research and Development Division. He has been with the company since 1982, when he joined as head of Planning and Controlling in the Research and Development Division. - 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). - Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney, PC, CC, GOQ, LLD (born March 20, 1939), was the eighteenth Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993 and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993. According to Canadian protocol, as a former Prime Minister, he is styled "The Right Honourable" for life. - Paul O'Neill
Paul Henry O'Neill (born December 4, 1935) served as the 72nd United States Secretary of the Treasury for part of President George W. Bush's first Administration. He resigned in December 2002 under pressure from the administration and became a harsh critic. O'Neill was chairman and CEO of Pittsburgh-based industrial giant Alcoa from 1987 to 1999, and retired as chairman at the end of 2000. In 1995, he was made chairman of the RAND Corporation. - 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. - Laurent Beaudoin
Beaudoin became Chief Executive Officer of Bombardier, Inc. in 1979, rescuing it from near bankruptcy. He currently sits on the Canadian Advisory Board of the Carlyle Group. In 1973 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1988. In 1990, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. - Sidney Taurel
Sidney Taurel (born February 9, 1949 in Casablanca, Morocco) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Eli Lilly and Company, a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical corporation. - Jeff Immelt
Jeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of GE, a post he has held since September 7, 2001. Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997. A couple years later, in 2000, Mr. Immelt was appointed president and chief executive officer. - P. Roy Vagelos
Dr. Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from July 1985 to June 1994. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from April 1986 to November 1994. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975. - Julian Lombardi
Julian Lombardi (born November 11, 1956) is an American inventor, author, educator, and computer scientist known for his work in information architecture, user interface design and in the design of computer systems that support collaboration between large numbers of users. Lombardi currently serves as Duke University's Assistant Vice President of Academic Services and Technology Support. - Jerry Sanders
Walter Jeremiah Sanders III (born September 12, 1936), and best known as "Jerry," was a salesman at Fairchild Semiconductor in the 1960s. He was one of the company's best sales people and was famous for style and flair. He then co-founded Advanced Micro Devices and took his trademark style into his position as its CEO. Jerry Sanders III grew up in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, raised by his paternal grandparents. - 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. - Rob McEwen
Rob McEwen is Chairman and CEO of US Gold. Since July 2005, when McEwen became the company's largest shareholder, US Gold's consolidated land assets have grown more than four times spanning 170 square miles in one of Nevada's premier mining regions, the Cortez Trend. Previously, McEwen was the founder and former Chairman and CEO of Goldcorp Inc., where its Red Lake Mine in northwestern Ontario, Canada is still considered to be the richest gold mine in the world. - Donald E. Graham
Donald E. Graham (born April 22, 1945), chief executive officer and chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company. He is also chairman of "The Washington Post" newspaper. - Donald J. Carty
Mr. Carty has been a member of the Company's board of directors since 1992 and for much of that time has served as chairman of the Audit Committee. From 1998 to 2003, Carty served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of AMR Corporation. He also previously served as President of AMR Airline Group and American Airlines, Inc. Prior to that he was the Chief Financial Officer and held various other executive positions at AMR and its subsidiaries. - Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter (born John Craig Venter October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman. - Douglas A. Warner III
Following graduation from Yale University in 1968, Mr. Warner joined Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, a wholly-owned subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (formerly J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated). - Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill, commonly known as Sandy Weill (born March 16 1933) is a banker, financier and philanthropist. He was formerly the chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup Inc. He served in those positions until October 1 2003 and April 18, 2006 respectively. - David Dorman
David W. Dorman (born 1954 in Georgia) is an American Telecommunications executive, currently serving on the board of Motorola. In 2000, he took on the task of rebuilding AT&T, whose total stock value had fallen from a high of $110 billion to a low of less than $11 billion. Prior to SBC Communications's acquisition of AT&T Corp. on 18 November, 2005, Dorman was chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T. - Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in New Lisbon, Wisconsin) is the chair of Opsware, a software company, and cofounder of Ning, a consumer Internet company. He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser. In 2005, it was revealed that he is one of the people behind Ning, which recently launched a free "playground" for social software. - Sandy Berger
Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger (born October 28, 1945) served as the 19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. In his position, he helped to formulate the foreign policy of the Clinton Administration. During this time he advised the President regarding the Khobar Towers bombing, Operation Desert Fox and other actions against Iraq, the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, … - David Brandon
David A. Brandon is chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and manager of Domino's Pizza. He is also an outgoing regent of the University of Michigan. He graduated with a bachelor's degree and teaching certificate from the University of Michigan in 1974. While in Ann Arbor, he was the back-up quarterback of the university's football team, under the leadership of Bo Schembechler. Brandon also has honorary doctorate degrees from Schoolcraft College, … - Thomas Middelhoff
Thomas Middelhoff is a German corporate manager. Since May 2004, Middelhoff has been chairman of the supervisory board of KarstadtQuelle, and since May 12, 2005 he has been CEO of the company. Thomas Middelhoff was born in Düsseldorf, Germany as the son of a textile businessman. He studied business at the University of Münster and then doctored at the Institute for Marketing supervised by Heribert Meffert. While in university, he already worked in his father's business. - Harvey Golub
Harvey Golub is the Chairman of the Board at the Campbell Soup Company as of January 2006. - Martti Ahtisaari
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari (born June 23, 1937) is a former President of Finland (1994-2000) and a UN diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work. Currently he is the UN representative and mediator during the Vienna peace talks that will determine the final status of Serbia's southern province, Kosovo (which has been under UN administration since 1999). In his proposal to the UN Security Council he has recommended supervised independence for Kosovo. - 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. - Donald Bren
Donald Leroy Bren (born 1932) is a US real estate mogul born in Los Angeles, and currently residing in Newport Beach, CA. He is the son of Hollywood producer Milton Bren and the stepson of actress Claire Trevor. He attended the University of Washington, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi, on a ski scholarship and tried out for the Olympic team in 1956. He holds a degree in business administration and economics. After college he served in the Marines. - Andrew Grove
Dr. Andrew Stephen Grove (born 1936-09-02) is a Hungarian-American businessman. He participated in the founding of Intel and was key to the company's success. - Anne M. Mulcahy
Anne M. Mulcahy is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation, Stamford, Conn. She was named CEO of Xerox on Aug. 1, 2001, and chairman on Jan. 1, 2002. In addition to the Xerox board, she is a member of the boards of directors of Catalyst, Citigroup Inc., Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. and Target Corporation, and is a member of The Business Council. - Gordon Bethune
Gordon M. Bethune (born August 1941) is the chairman of the board of Aloha Airgroup, parent company of Aloha Airlines. He was CEO of Continental Airlines from 1994 until his retirement at the end of 2004. From 1996 on, he also served as chairman of the board at that airline. He also serves on the boards of Honeywell, Sprint Nextel, Prudential Financial, and the Wills Group. Prior to joining Continental, he was an executive at Boeing.
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