- George Soros
George Soros (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He peacefully promotes democracy in Eastern Europe. Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. His support for the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, … - Ellen Malcolm
Ellen R. Malcolm has had a long career in politics, particularly in political fundraising. She is an heiress of one of the founders of IBM. After graduating from Hollins College in 1969, she worked for Common Cause in the 1970s. She was a press secretary for National Women's Political Caucus and later Esther Peterson, special assistant for consumer affairs in the Carter administration. She went on to found EMILY's List and is now president of America Coming Together. - Stephen A. Schwarzman
Stephen A. Schwarzman (born 14 February 1947) is the Chairman and co-founder of the Blackstone Group private-equity firm. - Brook Byers
Brook Byers is the brother of Stanford University Professor Tom Byers, and is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers. He is currently on the Board of Directors of eight companies, most recently joining CardioDX, Genomic Health Incorporated, Five Prime Therapeutics, Pacific Biosciences, Inc. and XDx, Inc. Previously, he served on the Board of Directors of Idec Pharmaceuticals (Chairman), Athena Neurosciences (Chairman), Signal Pharmaceuticals, … - Anne Cox Chambers
Anne Cox Chambers is a billionaire media proprietor. She is the daughter of James M. Cox, a newspaper publisher and senior Democratic political identity. She owns and controls her father’s business interests, through Cox Enterprises. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. Her sister, Barbara Cox Anthony, died on May 28, 2007. A generous financial supporter of the Democratic Party, … - Mario Morino
Mario Morino is chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners and chairman of the Morino Institute. Before retiring from private industry in 1992, Mario enjoyed a 30-year career in information technology, where he co-founded and helped build a corporation that became a market leader and one of the industry’s then 10 largest firms in software and services. - Tim Gill
Tim Gill (born October 18, 1953 in Hobart, Indiana) is an American computer software entrepreneur and gay rights activist. Early in his life, Gill showed both interest and talent in computer science first at Wheat Ridge High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, eventually studying the subject at University of Colorado at Boulder. After two jobs in high-tech at HP and a consulting services firm, Gill started his company, Quark, with a $2000 loan from his parents. - Frank Westheimer
Frank Henry Westheimer (January 15, 1912 - April 14, 2007) was an American chemist. He was the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Harvard University, and the Westheimer medal is named in his honour. Born in Baltimore, he graduated from Dartmouth and earned his doctorate in chemistry from Harvard in 1935. He was a member of President Lyndon Johnson's science advisory committee from 1967 to 1970. - Michael Whouley
Michael Whouley is a Democratic political consultant who specializes in get out the vote operations. Whouley is President of the Dewey Square Group, a consulting firm that works for both political and corporate clients as lobbyists and campaign strategists. Whouley was a key strategist for Bill Clinton, serving as his field director during the 1992 election. Following Clinton's innaguration, Whouley became a lobbyist on behalf of pro-NAFTA interests. - 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. - Mehmet Oz
Dr. Mehmet Oz (born June 11, 1960) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and author. Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Turkish parents, and was educated at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware, received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1982 and obtained a joint MD and MBA degree in 1986 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Wharton School. Oz is Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University. - David Geffen
David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer, philanthropist. Geffen is noted for creating Asylum Records in 1970 (which merged with Elektra Records in 1972 to form Elektra/Asylum Records), and Geffen Records in 1980, along with his later role as one of the three founders of Dreamworks SKG in 1994. According to "Forbes" magazine, he is a billionaire. - Kenneth Chenault
Kenneth Irvine Chenault (born Long Island, June 2, 1951) has been the CEO and Chairman of American Express since 2001. He was the third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He received a B.A. in History from Bowdoin College in 1973, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1976. After Harvard he worked as an associate with the law firm Rogers & Wells in New York City, and as a consultant for Bain & Company. - Peter Morton
Peter Morton was the co-founder with Isaac Tigrett of the Hard Rock Café. His father is Arnie Morton, founder of Morton's, and his son is Harry Morton, founder of Pink Taco restaurants. - Alice Rivlin
Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born March 4, 1931 in Philadelphia) is an economist, a former U.S. Cabinet official, and an expert on the budget. Rivlin is an alumna of The Madeira School, earned a B.A. at Bryn Mawr College in 1952 and earned a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1958. She has been affiliated several times with the Brookings Institution, including stints from 1957-66, 1969-1975, 1983-1993, and 1999-present. - Roger Altman
Roger C. Altman Chairman Evercore Partners, Inc. - Arthur Blank
Arthur Blank is one of the co-founders of Home Depot. Today he is known for his philanthropy and his ownership of the Atlanta Falcons NFL and the Georgia Force arena football team. Bold text==Early life== Arthur Blank was born in 1942 and grew up in Queens, New York with his father, Max, his mother, Molly, and his older brother, Michael. Blank graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City and went on to attend Babson College, … - Minyon Moore
Minyon Moore (born May 16, 1958) in Chicago, Illinois is a founder of America Coming Together, and heads Dewey Square Group's state and local practice. She was formerly COO of the Democratic National Committee, and before that, assistant to the President of the United States and Director of White House Political Affairs under President Bill Clinton. Before that, Moore worked as an advisor to the presidential campaign of Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Andrew Filipowski
"'Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski" a Polish American technology entrepreneur born in 1950 in Chicago IL. He is currently the Executive Chairman and CEO of SilkRoad Equity, a private investment firm, and founded Platinum Technology in 1987. He founded or cofounded Blue Rhino Corporation, Primo Water, SilkRoad technology, inc., DBMS, Inc., the House of Blues, SolidSpace, Inc., onramp Branding, MissionMode and InterAct 911 Corp. He was the COO of Cullinet - 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. - Nicole Seligman
Nicole Seligman (born 1957) is an American attorney. She is currently Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Sony Corporation, and has received national attention in the United States for her representation of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings and of President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial. - William Lycan
William G. Lycan (b. September 26, 1945, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American philosopher teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before moving to UNC Lycan taught for several years at Ohio State University. His principal interests include philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of linguistics, epistemology, and metaphysics. Lycan is an advocate of Daniel Dennett's version of functionalism, known as "homuncular functionalism". - Frank G. Wisner
Frank Gardner Wisner II (1938-) is an American businessman and former diplomat. He is the son of Frank Wisner. Wisner is currently Vice Chairman of American International Group. Wisner was born in New York on 2 July 1938, and graduated from Princeton University in 1961. He joined the State Department as a Foreign Service Officer in December of that year. In 1976, at the beginning of the Carter administration, … - John Morgridge
John P. Morgridge joined Cisco Systems in 1988 as President and CEO, and grew the company from $5 million to more than $1 billion in sales, and from 34 to more than 2,250 employees. In 1990 he took Cisco public, and in 1995 was appointed Chairman. During his tenure, Cisco has become the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, with more than $25 billion in revenues and some 50,000 employees in 77 countries. - Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Sylvia M. Mathews (born 1965) is the President of the Global Development Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her program focusses on combatting world poverty through agricultural development, financial services for the poor, and global libraries. She was Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of the Foundation prior to its reorganization in 2006. - Terry J. Lundgren
Terry J. Lundgren is the CEO, Chairman of the Board, President, and Director at Macys inc., the parent company of Macy's and Bloomingdale's department stores. Lundgren is also the namesake of the Terry J. Lundgren Center for Retailing at the University of Arizona, where he is also an alumnus, having graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor's degree/B.A. Career: * Federated Department Stores: Bullock's division, 1975–1987 * Bullocks Wilshire: 1987, … - Louis Caldera
Louis Caldera served as United States Secretary of the Army from July 2, 1998 - January 20, 2001, the 17th man to hold that office. The son of Mexican immigrants (Soledad and Benjamin Caldera), Caldera was born in El Paso, Texas. His family left Texas for California when he was four, living briefly in public housing in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles before moving to the suburb of Whittier. - Gary Cohn
Gary D. Cohn is a President and COO of Goldman Sachs. He has also financed the Gary D. Cohn Endowed Research Professorship in Finance at American University, his alma mater. Mr. Cohn is a founding board member with his wife Lisa Pevaroff Cohn of the New York University Child Study Center. They funded the Pevaroff Cohn Professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine in 1999. - Walter E. Dellinger III
Walter Estes Dellinger, III (born May 15,1941 in Charlotte, NC) is the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University and head of the appellate practice at O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Washington, DC. He served as the acting United States Solicitor General for the 1996-1997 Term of the Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment as acting Solicitor General, Dellinger was an Assistant Attorney General and head of the Office of Legal Counsel under President Bill Clinton. - Burley Mitchell
Burley Mitchell, Jr. is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. At age 15, Mitchell dropped out of high school to join the Marine Corps, only to be kicked out when his age was discovered. He went on to earn a bachelor's degree from North Carolina State University and his Law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. - 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. - Jonathan Bing
Jonathan L. Bing is a machine politician and member of the United States Democratic Party representing the 73rd Assembly District of the New York State Assembly. Bing's district comprises Manhattan's Upper East Side, East Midtown, Sutton Place and Turtle Bay. - 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. - Gene R. Nichol
Gene R. Nichol is the twenty-sixth president of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Nichol attended Oklahoma State University, where he received a philosophy degree and played on the varsity football team. He received his law degree in 1976 from the University of Texas, graduating Order of the Coif. - James P. Cooney III
Jim Cooney was one of the defense lawyers who represented Alan Gell, a death row inmate who became the 113th person freed from death row. Alan Gell was acquitted on February 18, 2004. Cooney represented Gell pro bono and received the North Carolina Bar Association's 2004 William L. Thorp Pro Bono Award. He also represented Reade Seligmann, one of the three Duke University men's lacrosse players who was falsely accused of rape during the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case. - David M. Dobson
David M. Dobson was raised in Ames, Iowa. In 1986 he was elected homecoming king at Ames High School. He is a software developer and an associate professor of geology and earth sciences at Guilford College. He is most notable for being the creator of Snood and other games including Snoodoku and Chowder. He is also the author of the children's book about endangered species titled "Can We Save Them?" - Wendy Greuel
Wendy Greuel is President Pro Tempore of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 2nd District. Greuel was elected in 2002 to fill the remainder of the term of Councilman Joel Wachs. She was elected in her own right in 2003 and reelected in 2007. The 2nd District includes portions of the San Fernando Valley. She has recently announced her campaign for Los Angeles City Controller, a post currently held by Laura Chick.
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