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Barry Manilow is an American singer and songwriter best known for his recordings "I Write the Songs", "Mandy" and "Copacabana". His career achievements include selling more than 75 million records worldwide. In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-selling charts simultaneously, a feat equalled only by Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis. - 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. - 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. - Brad Grey
Brad Alan Grey (born December 29, 1957) is an American film, television producer, and former talent manager currently working as the CEO of Paramount Pictures. Grey was born in the Bronx, the youngest child of a garment district salesman. He majored in business and communications at the State University of New York at Buffalo. While attending the university, he became a gofer for a young Harvey Weinstein who was then a concert promoter. - James Sinegal
James Sinegal is co-founder and CEO of Costco, an international low-price membership retail chain headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, USA. He was born January 1, 1936 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a protege of Sol Price, who pioneered the concept of the warehouse store that sells high volumes of a small variety of goods. He is known for a benevolent style of management that offers employees high benefits and rewards. - 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). - 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. - Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons (born October 4 ,1957 in Queens, New York), is an African American entrepreneur, the co-founder, with Rick Rubin, of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam, founder of another label, Russell Simmons Music Group, and creator of the clothing fashion line Phat Farm. Russell Simmons is the younger brother of Daniel "Danny" Simmons, Jr and he is the older brother of Rev. Joseph Simmons, better known as "Run" of Run-DMC, and son of Daniel Simmons, Sr, … - Jon Robin Baitz
Jon Robin Baitz (born November 4, 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is an American playwright, screenwriter, television producer and sometime actor. The son of an executive of the Carnation Company, Baitz was raised in Brazil and South Africa before the family returned to California, where he attended Beverly Hills High School. After graduation, he worked as a bookstore clerk and assistant to two producers, and the experiences became the basis for his first play, … - 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. - Tim Wu
Tim Wu (吳修銘) is a professor at Columbia Law School and a writer for Slate Magazine. He is best known for popularizing the concept of "network neutrality". Professor Wu's specialty is copyright and telecommunications policy. He has a well-known series of articles on network neutrality, and is often credited with coining the term. For his work in this area, Professor Wu was named one of Scientific American's 50 people of the year in 2006. - 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. - James Murren
James J. Murren is the president of MGM Mirage, which owns and operates casinos throughout the United States, including Bellagio, MGM Grand Las Vegas, The Mirage, Treasure Island, New York-New York, and the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as The Primm Valley Resorts in Primm, Nevada. He is also the Chief Financial Officer, and Principal Accounting Officer. Murren's salary is in excess of $3,000,000 per year. - Baron Davis
Baron Walter Louis Davis (born April 13 1979, in Compton, California) is an American basketball player currently starting at point guard for the NBA's Golden State Warriors. He began playing basketball at the age of five. Later, Davis became a star at Crossroads School and UCLA. Davis was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets as the number three pick in the 1999 NBA Draft. - 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, … - 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. - Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley (b. May 16, 1964, Charlottesville, Virginia) is the violinist and one of the backup singers in the American jam band Dave Matthews Band. He was raised in a highly musical family; his father was a choir director and his uncle a bass/trumpet player for local bands. Coincidentally, he grew up in the same neighborhood as future Dave Matthews Band drummer Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. - 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. - Cheryl Mills
Cheryl Mills was Deputy White House Counsel for President Bill Clinton, whom she defended during his 1999 impeachment trial. She currently works at New York University as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of the University, and as Acting Senior Vice President for Operations and Administration. She is expected to serve as general counsel of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. - 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, … - Gregg Popovich
Gregg Popovich is the head coach of the National Basketball Association's San Antonio Spurs - 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. - Mike D'Antoni
Mike D'Antoni (born May 9, 1951 in Mullens, West Virginia) is an American basketball coach and former basketball player. He holds American and Italian dual citizenship. D'Antoni is currently head coach of the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. He has worked for the Phoenix franchise since 2003, and won the NBA Coach of the Year Award for the 2004-05 season after leading the Suns to a 62-20 record and a trip to the Western Conference Finals. - 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. - Peri Tarr
Peri Tarr received her BS in Zoology from the University of Massachusetts in 1986, and her MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1992 and 1996, respectively). Between her BS and MS/PhD, she worked full-time at the University of Massachusetts Physical Plant, attempting to introduce an automated system to help with the Plant's operations. - Lawrence Shulman
Lawrence Shulman (born May 17, 1937) is the former Dean of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. His scholarship covers the subfields of group work, supervision, child welfare, and teaching. Among his books are: *"The Skills of Helping: Individuals, Families, Groups and Communities", *"Interactional Supervision; and Mutual Aid Groups Vulnerable and Resilient Populations", and *"The Life Cycle". - Jeanne Tripplehorn
Jeanne Tripplehorn (born June 10, 1963) is an American film actress. Tripplehorn was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Tom Tripplehorn (known as "Tommy Tripplehorn"), who was once a guitarist with Gary Lewis & the Playboys. After graduating high school (during high school), Tripplehorn became a D.J. at Tulsa radio station KMOD, using the air name "Jeanie Summers". She was stage-trained as an actress (at Juilliard) and also served as a TV host. - 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. - Jim Paxson
James Joseph (Jim) Paxson (born July 9, 1957 in Kettering, Ohio) was a guard/forward with an 11-year career from 1979-1990 in the NBA. He played for the Portland Trail Blazers and Boston Celtics of the NBA and was subsequently inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. He then served as general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers from 1999 until 2005. He is the older brother of retired Chicago Bulls guard and current Bulls general manager John Paxson. - Nina Jacobson
Nina Jacobson (born 1966) is an American film executive who, until July 2006, was president of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. With Dawn Steel, Gail Berman and Sherry Lansing, she was one of the last of a handful of women to head a Hollywood film studio since the 1980s. - Peter Detkin
Peter N. Detkin is a managing partner for Intellectual Ventures. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S.E.E. in 1982 and J.D. in 1985. He worked as a patent attorney for Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati of Palo Alto, becoming a partner in 1992. Following this, he worked as Vice President and assistant general counsel in charge of patents, litigation, licensing and antitrust/competition law for Intel, … - Ellen Dannin
Ellen Dannin (August 3, 1951) is professor of law at the Dickinson School of Law at Penn State University, and an expert in the labor law of New Zealand and the United States. - Garrett Epps
Garrett Epps (born in 1950 in Richmond, Virginia) is an award-winning legal scholar, novelist, and journalist. He currently is the Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at the University of Oregon. Epps has written two novels, including "The Shad Treatment", which won the Lillian Smith Book Award, as well as the nonfiction books "To An Unknown God: Religious Freedom on Trial", … - 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. - Jalen Rose
Jalen Anthony Rose (born January 30 1973 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA, currently with the Phoenix Suns. In college he was a member of the University of Michigan Wolverines' "Fab Five" (along with Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson) that reached the 1992 & 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games as both Freshmen and Sophomores. - Paul Silas
Paul Theron Silas (born July 12 1943, in Prescott, Arizona) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He attended Creighton University, where he set an NCAA record for the most rebounds in three seasons and averaged 20.6 rebounds per game in 1963. In the NBA, Silas collected more than 10,000 points and 10,000 rebounds during his distinguished 16 year career, played in two All-Star games, … - Sidney Sheinberg
Sidney "Sid" Jay Sheinberg (born 1935, Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American entertainment executive. He is married to actress Lorraine Gary. Currently, he runs the Bubble Factory Studios, an independent production company of film projects. Prior to his work with The Bubble Factory, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer at MCA under Lew Wasserman. Sheinberg is credited with discovering director Steven Spielberg, …
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