- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful.
- Mukesh Ambani
Shri Mukesh D. Ambani is a Chemical Engineer from the University of Bombay and pursued MBA from Stanford University, USA. He is the son of Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani , Founder Chairman of the Company. Shri Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and initiated Reliance's backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals, petroleum refining and oil and gas exploration and production.
- Rodrigo Rato
Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo was Spain's Economy Minister and Vice President serving with the People's Party (PP) between 1996 and 2004. He was appointed to become director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on May 4, 2004. He actually became director on June 7, 2004 and he is expected to resign his post in October, 2007, after IMF Annual Meetings. He's married to María Ángeles Alarco Canosa, a businesswoman.
- Horst Köhler
Horst Köhler is the current President of Germany. Köhler was narrowly elected by the "Bundesversammlung" (Federal Assembly) on May 23, 2004 and was subsequently inaugurated on July 1, 2004. Prior to his election, Köhler had had a distinguished career in politics and the civil service, and had most recently been head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- Robert Zoellick
Robert Zoellick also serves or has served as a board member on a number of private and public organizations: Alliance Capital , Said Holdings , and the Precursor Group ; a member of the advisory boards of Enron and Viventures , a venture fund; as a Director of the Aspen Institute 's Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations , the German Marshall Fund of the United States , and the World Wildlife Advisory Council ; and a member of Secretary William Sebastian Cohen 's Defense Policy Board .
- Mark Scott
Mark Scott is the current Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He took up his position in July 2006, having previously been the Editorial Director at John Fairfax, responsible for the editorial content of the group's major newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age. He worked for the NSW Greiner Government, as chief of staff to the Education Minister, …
- B. Muthuraman
B Muthuraman is the Managing Director of Tata Steel, India's largest steel manufacturer. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur. He completed his MBA from the Business Management Evening programme at XLRI in 1975. He is also an alumnus of IIT Chennai (Class of 1966). Having started as a "graduate trainee" in Tata Steel right after graduation, …
- K. V. Kamath
K. V. Kamath (born December 2, 1947) is the Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Bank, the largest private bank in India. He is an alumnus of prestigious educational institutions of India like the Karnataka Regional Engineering College and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He is the recipient of the Asian Business Leader of the Year prize awarded at the Asian Business Leader Award 2001, organised by the business television network CNBC Asia.
- Jagdish Khattar
Jagdish Khattar / Managing Director
- Karren Brady
Karren Brady (born April 1969) is a British broadcasting and sport business manager. She is best known for being the managing director of Birmingham City Football Club. She was the first woman to hold such a high-level post in the top flight of English football having been appointed in 1992, when only 23 years old. She was responsible for its flotation in 1997 becoming the youngest Managing Director of a UK plc in the process.
- Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani is an Indian software entrepreneur. He is currently the Co-Chairman of Infosys Technologies Ltd, of which he is also a co-founder, along with N. R. Narayana Murthy and others.
- Idris Jala
Datuk Idris Jala, age 47, is a Malaysian. He graduated with a Bachelor Degree (Hons) (B.Soc Sc) in Development Studies/Management in University Sains Malaysia in 1982. He later obtained a Masters Degree in Industrial Relations from University of Warwick, United Kingdom in 1986. Prior to MAS, he was attached to Shell MDS (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. as Managing Director and Executive Director of Shell Malaysia Ltd, Gas & Power from 2003 to 30 November 2005.
- David Morgan
David Morgan is the current CEO and Managing Director of Westpac Banking Corporation, one of Australia's four major banks and head of 'The Australian Bankers Association'.
- Gareth Penny
Gareth Penny (born 1962) is a South African businessman and Managing Director of De Beers. Penny was educated at Diocesan College and Eton College, before reading a MA in PPE at the University of Oxford, where he was both treasurer and librarian of the Oxford Union and a Rhodes scholar. Penny joined Anglo American and helped establish the Anglo American and De Beers small business initiative. He then helped start a diamond cutting factory in Botswana.
- Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras (acquired by Ariba and Ciena for $8B), and most recently, in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Previously, Mr. Jurvetson was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated.
- David Rubenstein
David Rubenstein is the co-founder of The Carlyle Group, an American private equity firm. Rubenstein grew up in Baltimore, and graduated from the Baltimore City College and then from Duke University "magna cum laude" in 1970. He earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973. Prior to starting Carlyle, Rubenstein was a domestic policy advisor to President Jimmy Carter and worked in private practice in Washington, D.C. He lives in Bethesda, …
- Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson (born March 1949) is an Australian businessman. Originally a long-time senior executive at the Nine Network (GTV-9), in October 2003 Johnson moved to the Seven Network to become managing director of Channel Seven Melbourne.
- Francis Yeoh
Tan Sri Dato' Francis Yeoh Sock Ping <small>CBE</small> (Chinese : 楊肅斌; pinyin: Yáng Sùbīn, born August 23 1954) is a prominent business personality in Malaysia. He obtained a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) Degree in Civil Engineering from Kingston University, United Kingdom in 1978. Francis had his secondary school education at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He became the Managing Director of YTL Corporation Bhd Group in 1988.
- Gabe Newell
Gabe Newell (born November 3, 1962) is the co-founder and managing director of game development company Valve Corporation.
- Ben Verwaayen
Bernardus Johannes Maria "Ben" Verwaayen (born Driebergen, February 11, 1952) is a Dutch businessman. He is currently CEO of BT. Verwaayen studied law and international relations at Utrecht University, obtaining a degree in 1975. He then worked for various departments of ITT Corporation, and also obtained another degree from Utrecht (1983), in public administration. In 1988, he became director of KPN, then still a public company under the name "PTT Telecom".
- Andrew Lindberg
Andrew Lindberg (born Scotland circa 1954) B.Sc., B.Comm., MBA, FAICD (Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors) is an Australian businessman. From 2000 until February 2006 he held the positions of managing director and board member of AWB Limited. He resigned from these positions in the wake of his appearance at the Cole Inquiry.Despite "the trial by media" that occurred throughout the inquiry, in November 2006, he was exonerated.
- Martin Whitmarsh
Martin Whitmarsh (born April 29 1958) is the CEO of the McLaren Formula One team.
- Mario Draghi
Mario Draghi (born September 3, 1947) is an Italian banker and economist, nominated to be the new governor of the Bank of Italy on December 29, 2005. He has taken office on January 16, 2006.
- Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips is President of Oracle Corporation and a member of the company's Board of Directors. Phillips' responsibilities encompass global field operations including consulting, marketing, sales, alliances and channels, and customer programs, as well as corporate strategy. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Phillips was a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley in its technology group. With the firms Kidder Peabody (now defunct) and Sound View Technologies.
- Tulsi Tanti
Tulsi Tanti is the chairman and managing director of Suzlon Energy, the $7 billion worth(market cap) wind power based company. He along with his three siblings owns 70% of the company. Initially he was a textile producer,then moved into wind energy production and founded the Suzlon Energy He is worth $5.9 billion as per Forbes.
- Sarthak Behuria
Sarthak Behuria is the chairman and Managing Director of Indian Oil Corporation. He is also Chairman (part-time) of subsidiary companies, IBP Co. Ltd., BRPL and Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd., besides heading Indian Oiltanking Ltd., a joint venture for building and operating terminalling services for petroleum products. At BPCL, Mr. Behuria was actively involved in the change management and restructuring process of the organisation, …
- Martha Lane Fox
Martha Lane Fox (born February 10 1973), great-granddaughter maternally of Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, is a British e-commerce business woman, charity trustee and board member of Channel 4. She is the daughter of the British historian and gardening correspondent Robin Lane Fox. She was educated at Oxford High School, Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where she read ancient and modern history.
- Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson is a Scottish journalist and newspaper executive. Charlie Wilson was Managing Director of Mirror Group plc from 1992 to 1998, having been Editorial Director of Mirror Group Newspapers from 1991 to 1992. He edited the "Glasgow Evening Times", "The Glasgow Times" and "The Scottish Sunday Standard" (1976-1982). He was deputy editor (1982-1985) and editor (1985-1990) of "The Times" in London, …
- Kerry Killinger
Kerry Killinger Chairman, President and CEO of Washington Mutual, Inc.
- Bob Davoli
Bob joined Sigma in 1995. He has 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. Most recently he was President and CEO of Epoch Systems, the leading vendor of client-server data management software products. He sold the firm in 1993 to EMC for $141 million. Previously, he was the Founder, President and CEO of SQL Solutions, a leading purveyor of services and tools for the relational database market.
- Paul Sloane
Paul Sloane is a British author and speaker on lateral thinking and innovation. He was born in 1950 in Johnstone, Scotland and was educated at St Joseph's College, Blackpool and Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read Engineering. From 1974 to 1984 he worked for IBM in Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing and he was part of the team that launched the IBM PC in the UK in 1982. He became UK Marketing Director and then Managing Director of the database company, Ashton-Tate.
- Subhash Ghai
Subhash Ghai (born January 24, 1943/1945, Punjab, India) is an Indian director whose most notable films include "Khalnayak" (1993), "Pardes" (1997) and "Taal" (1999).
- Nicholas Coleridge
Nicholas Coleridge is the Managing Director of Condé Nast in Britain, the magazine publishing house that includes "Glamour", "GQ", "House and Garden", "Vogue", "Tatler", and "Vanity Fair". He is the great-great-great-great-great grandson of the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and son of David Coleridge, who was Chairman of Lloyd's of London during its most troubled period in the late 1980s.
- Benjamin Moore
Benjamin Moore (managing director) is a theatre artist who is currently the Managing Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle, WA. Benjamin Moore joined Seattle Rep in December 1985 following a 15-year association with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco where he held the positions of production director, general manager, and managing director. Moore has led Seattle Rep through compliance for a National Arts Stabilization grant, …
- Thomas Andrews
Thomas Andrews, Jr. was a managing director and head of the draughting department for the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland. Andrews was the shipbuilder in charge of the plans for the ocean liner RMS "Titanic". He was travelling on board the "Titanic" during its maiden voyage when it hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and was one of the 1,496 people lost in the disaster.
- Emanuel Derman
Emanuel is a great writer. While anyone interested in either physics or quantitative finance will find his various thesis/projects quite an interesting read, the book really shines when it talks about his struggle with his Ph.D., shuttling between different cities in his post doc career and his life as a "quant" in investment banks. Highly recommended.
- Gavyn Davies
Gavyn Davies (born 27 November 1950) was the chairman of the BBC from 2001 until 2004, a former Goldman Sachs banker and a former economic advisor to the British Government. On 28 January 2004 he announced that he was resigning his BBC post following the publication of the Hutton Inquiry report which heavily criticised the organisation. Davies was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge and Balliol College, Oxford.
- Alan Lewis
David Alan Lewis (born 1 June 1964 in Cork, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish former cricketer and Rugby Union referee. His father Ian also played cricket for Ireland.
- Graeme John
Graeme John has been Managing Director of Australia Post since 1993. From 1990 was Australia Post's Chief Manager of National Operations. Graeme John first gained notoriety playing, and later coaching, in the Victorian Football League. He has also served as President of his South Melbourne Football Club. He continues to contribute to the sport as an Australian Football League Commissioner. He has more than 28 years' experience in line management for road, …
- Ahmed Fahour
Ahmed Fahour, 40, an Australian of Lebanese descent, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian operations of the National Australia Bank (NAB). The eldest son & child of immigrant Muslim Lebanese parents, he studied at St Joseph's College in North Fitzroy, and later attended Redden College in Preston (now called Samaritan Catholic College). After high school, he attended Latrobe University in Melbourne from 1984.