- George Steinbrenner
George Michael Steinbrenner III (born July 4, 1930 in Rocky River, Ohio), often known as "The Boss", is an American businessman and the principal owner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. His outspokenness and role in driving up player salaries have made him one of the sport's more controversial figures, …
- Stephen A. Schwarzman
Stephen A. Schwarzman (born 14 February 1947) is the Chairman and co-founder of the Blackstone Group private-equity firm.
- Carl Icahn
Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American billionaire financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor.
- Charles Prince
Charles O. "Chuck" Prince, III, born January_13, 1950, is the chief executive officer of Citigroup. Before taking over Citi's investment banking business, Prince had been Chief Operating Officer for Citigroup. He started his career as an attorney with U.S. Steel Corp in 1975. In 1979, he joined Commercial Credit Co., a predecessor to Citigroup that Sandy Weill took over in 1986. From there, as Weill put together his financial empire, Prince was with him every step.
- Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Edgar Miles Bronfman, Jr. (born May 16, 1955), formerly CEO of Seagram and vice-chairman of Vivendi Universal, has been CEO of Warner Music since 2004. He is the son of Edgar Miles Bronfman and the grandson of Samuel Bronfman, one of the most wealthy and influential Jewish families in Canada. The Bronfman family gained its fortunes through the Seagram Company, an alcohol distilling company, but Edgar Jr.
- Terry Semel
Terry Semel was born on February 24, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.. His father was a women's coat designer and his mother was a bus company executive. Terry was raised in Bay Terrace, a community in Bayside, Queens. He was the middle child and has two sisters. At the age of 23, he graduated from Long Island University in Brooklyn with a B.S. degree in accounting.
- Henry Kravis
Henry R. Kravis (born January 6 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) is an American business financier and investor, notable for co-founding and heading the leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). With an estimated current net worth of around $3 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 107th richest person in the world.
- Ursula Burns
Ursula M. Burns (New York, New York, September 20, 1958 -) currently serves as president of Xerox Corporation, named to the position in March 2007. She previously served as president of the company's Business Group Operations and as a corporate senior vice president Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern. She subsequently held several positions in engineering, including product development and planning.
- John Thain
John Thain is the current CEO of the New York Stock Exchange. Previously, Thain was both president and Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs, starting in July, 2003. Before that, he was co-COO for four years and spent the following five years as Chief Financial Officer. He was successful enough in the firm to amass $300 million in stock. John Thain's memberships include: MIT Corporation, Dean's Advisory Council – MIT Sloan School of Management, …
- Samuel J. Palmisano
Samuel J. Palmisano (born July 29, 1951) is the current Chairman, CEO, and President of IBM, one of the world's largest IT companies. He was elected Chairman in October 2002, effective January 1, 2003, and has served as Chief Executive Officer since March 2002. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Palmisano was President and Chief Operating Officer since 2000. Palmisano joined IBM in 1973.
- Robert G. Wilmers
Robert G. Wilmers (born 1935) is the former long-time Chief Executive Officer of M&T Bank. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for M&T Bank as well as M&T Bank, N.A., and is a member of its Trust and Investment Committee. Wilmers is a director of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, The Business Council of New York State and has served the City of Buffalo (NY) on its state-appointed control board.
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg (born December 21, 1950 in New York City) is an American film producer and CEO of DreamWorks Animation SKG. He is perhaps most famous for his period as studio chairman at The Walt Disney Company, and for producing the movie "Shrek" (2001).
- John Katzman
John Katzman is the founder of The Princeton Review. A graduate of Princeton University, Katzman founded The Princeton Review in 1981, initially teaching SAT preparation to high-school students in New York City. Despite being the founder of a successful business based on preparing for a wide range of standardized tests (including the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), …
- Roger Altman
Roger C. Altman Chairman Evercore Partners, Inc.
- Tom Freston
Thomas E. Freston (born 22 November 1945) is an American television executive who most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the post-split Viacom, until his resignation on September 5, 2006. Freston began his career in the field of advertising, but later moved to New Delhi, where he ran a textile and clothing business for eight years.
- Franklin Raines
Franklin Delano Raines (born January 14, 1949 in Seattle, Washington) is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Fannie Mae who served as White House budget director under President Bill Clinton. The son of a Seattle janitors, Raines graduated from Harvard University, Harvard Law School; and Magdalen College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
- James S. Tisch
James S. Tisch (born January 2, 1953) has been the CEO of Loews Corporation since 1999. Tisch graduated from Cornell University and received his masters of business administration at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the son of Lawrence A. Tisch.
- 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.
- Jeremy Jacobs
Jeremy Jacobs, Sr., perhaps best known as the owner of the Boston Bruins, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Delaware North Companies, a global leader in hospitality and food service and one of the largest privately held companies in North America. As owner of the National Hockey League's Boston Bruins, Mr. Jacobs represents the club on the NHL's Board of Governors, and serves on its Executive Committee. His ownership of the Bruins has been controversial, …
- Joshua Steiner
Joshua Steiner is a founder and managing principal of New York City based private investment firm Quadrangle Group, which invests in media and communications companies in the United States and Europe. Prior to the formation of Quadrangle Group in March 2000, he was a Managing Director at Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, where he was a member of the firm’s Media and Communications Group.
- Jane Rosenthal
Jane Rosenthal (b. 1954) in Providence, Rhode Island is an American film producer. She attended both Brown and New York University. Early in her career she helped to develop and produce over 70 movies for television while working at CBS in Los Angeles, California. In 1989, Rosenthal co-founded the TriBeCa Productions film studio in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of TriBeCa with actor Robert De Niro.
- Gerald Hassell
Gerald Hassell (born 1952) has served as President and director of the Bank of New York Company, Inc. and the Bank of New York since September 9, 1998.
- Steven Rattner
Steven "Steve" Rattner is an American venture capitalist. As of 2004 he is founder and managing principal at private investment firm Quadrangle Group, which invests media and communications companies in the United States and Europe.. A graduate of Brown University, Rattner worked at Morgan Stanley, where he founded their Communications Group.
- Thomas Rothman
Thomas Rothman, a.k.a. Tom Rothman is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment, the parent company of Twentieth Century Fox. He shares his position with Jim Gianopilos. Tom Rothman was born on November 21, 1954. He is father of two girls, and married to former actress Jessica Harper.
- Michael Lynne
Michael Lynne is an American movie executive, co-founder of New Line Cinema.
- Dina Dublon
Dina Dublon is a current member of the boards of directors at Microsoft, Accenture, and PepsiCo. She also serves as a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Global Fund for Women and the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children. She is a founding board member of Greenstone Media.
- Wayne Pace
Wayne H. Pace (born 1946 or 1947) is currently the chief financial officer and executive vice president of Time Warner Inc.. He has served as CFO since November of 2001. He attended Austin Peay State University where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting and economics and he received a Master of Business Administration from the University of Georgia. In 2005, married Pace was named by alleged madam Andrea or Andreia Schwartz as being her "sugar daddy", …
- Richard S. Fuld Jr.
Richard Severin Fuld, Jr., (born April 26, 1946, New York, New York), known as "Dick", is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Fuld, received his B.S. from the University of Colorado in 1969 and his M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business in 1973. Nicknamed "The Gorilla" (for his tough-guy attitude) or the "Digital Mind Trader" (for spending so much time in front of his computer as a young trader, …
- Tom Bernstein
Tom Bernstein a co-founder of the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment Complex in Chelsea, Manhattan is also a financier of Hollywood movies and an activist lawyer in the human rights movement. He is a founding member of Human Rights First--as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights--in 1982, and has served as its president since 1993. Mr. Bernstein's organization, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union, …
- Nelson Cunningham
Nelson Cunningham is an American. As of 2004 he is managing partner of Kissinger McLarty Associates. He served on the White House staff under President Bill Clinton and advised John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign on Western Hemisphere and international economic and trade issues.
- Philip J. Purcell
Philip J. Purcell headed Sears' 1981 acquisition of Dean Witter, helping to create the Discover Card. After Morgan Stanley merged with Dean Witter Reynolds in 1997, Purcell replaced Morgan Stanley's John J. Mack as CEO. Amid increasing personal attacks regarding his alleged failure to manage the merger with Dean Witter Reynolds, Purcell announced on June 13, 2005 that he would retire as CEO and Chairman of the Board.
- Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifschitz on October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive.
- Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz (b. July 19, 1953) is an American businessman and entrepreneur most widely known as the chairman of Starbucks and a former owner of Seattle SuperSonics which he sold to Oklahoma businessman Clayton Bennett. Howard Schultz co-founded Maveron, his investment group, in 1998 with Dan Levitan. He grew up in a subsidized public housing project (Bay View Houses) in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, New York.
- Millard Drexler
Millard S. Drexler is a businessman, formerly CEO of Gap Inc, he joined the board of directors of Gap in November 1983 and left his position in October 2002. Since January 2003, Drexler has been Chairman and CEO of J. Crew Group, Inc. He has been a director at Apple Inc. since 1999. He received his MBA from the Boston University Graduate School of Management. In the mid-1970s, he was a Merchandising Vice President and Fashion Director at Abraham & Straus in Brooklyn, NY, …
- James Chanos
James Chanos (born 1958 in Milwaukee) is the president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City investment company that is focused on short selling. He graduated from Yale in 1980. Kynikos is one of the few firms specializing in short selling that survived the bull market of the 1990s. In October 2000, Chanos started investigating Enron Corporation.
- Louis C. Camilleri
Louis C. Camilleri (b. 1955, Alexandria, Egypt) is the Chairman and CEO of Altria Group, the parent company of Philip Morris and Kraft Foods. He is also Chairman of Kraft Foods, and a member of the board of directors of SABMiller and the NYSE. Camilleri received a degree in economics and business administration from HEC Lausanne, the prestigious business school of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). After working as a business analyst with W. R. Grace and Company, …
- Alan Blinder
Alan Stuart Blinder (October 14, 1945 -) is an American economist, on the faculty of Princeton University, and was an adviser to John Kerry during the latter's 2004 presidential campaign. He graduated from Syosset High School in Syosset, New York. Blinder received his undergraduate degree in economics from Princeton, graduating summa cum laude in 1967.
- Fred Wilpon
Fred Wilpon, a graduate of the University of Michigan is a baseball executive with the National League New York Mets of which he became a part-owner in 1980. Wilpon served as president of the team between 1980 to 2002, as Chief Executive Officer since 1980 and as Chairman of the Board since 2003. In 2002, the Wilpon family purchased the remaining 50% of the Mets from Nelson Doubleday, Jr. for $391 million. Wilpon currently serves as Chairman of Sterling Equities, …
- Betsy Holden
Betsy Holden is a corporate director of Tribune Company and former CEO of Kraft Foods.
- Jay S. Walker
Jay S. Walker (born 1956) is an American entrepreneur who founded Priceline.com and Walker Digital. At one point Mr. Walker's net worth topped USD$4 billion, which was almost entirely Priceline.com stock. However, almost all of this was lost during the dot-com crash. He earned a B.S. in Industrial Relations from Cornell University in 1977, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He and his wife have two children and make their home in Connecticut.