- Tim Russert
Tim Russert , a fixture in American homes on Sunday mornings and election nights since becoming moderator of "Meet the Press" nearly 17 years ago, died Friday after collapsing at the Washington bureau of NBC News. He was 58 and lived in Northwest Washington.
- 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.
- Timothy F. Geithner
Timothy F. Geithner became the ninth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on November 17, 2003. In that capacity, he serves as the vice chairman and a permane... ... Before joining the Treasury, Mr. Geithner worked for Kissinger Associates, Inc.
- Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens is a former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader, the primary author of the Open Source Definition, a founder of Software in the Public Interest, founder and first project leader of the Linux Standard Base project, the initial author of BusyBox, a founder of the UserLinux project, and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Perens also has a book series with Prentice Hall PTR called the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series.
- Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999
- 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.
- Cary Grant
Archibald Alec Leach, better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an English film actor. With his distinctive Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, witty and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time of American cinema (after Humphrey Bogart) by the American Film Institute.
- Solomon H. Snyder
Dr. Solomon H. Snyder (born December 26, 1938) is an American neuroscientist. Snyder graduated from Georgetown University in 1958 and Georgetown Medical School in 1962. At a very early age he published his research on ornithine decarboxylase and RNA synthesis which opened up countless vistas in the neurosciences. After a two-year fellowship at the NIH, Snyder moved to Johns Hopkins Medical School to complete his residency in psychiatry.
- Klaus Kleinfeld
Klaus Kleinfeld (born November 6 1957 in Bremen, Germany) was chief executive officer (CEO) of Siemens AG from 2005 till July 2007. On April 25, 2007, Siemens AG distributed a press release announcing that the supervisory board was not planning to renew Kleinfeld's contract, due to United States authorities' ongoing investigations of the Siemens corruption scandal. Displeased by this decision, Kleinfeld announced that he would leave his position by September 30, 2007.
- Michael Capellas
Michael D. Capellas , president and CEO of MCI, recently confirmed his participation as speakers at WCIT 2006. Capellas is a 30-year veteran of the information technology business and an established thought leader in areas ranging from information technology, telecommunications and homeland security to the next generation of consumer electronics. Prior to joining MCI in December 2002, he was president of Hewlett-Packard Company. Previously, he was the chairman and CEO of Compaq.
- Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman , PhD: Dr. Goleman was a co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago), with the mission to help schools introduce emotional literacy courses. One mark of the Collaborative—and book’s—impact is that thousands of schools around the world have begun to implement such programs.
- Johnny Isakson
John Hardy "Johnny" Isakson (born December 28 1944), is an American politician, who has been the Republican junior United States Senator from Georgia since 2005. Previously, he represented in the House from 1999 to 2005.
- Jochen Zeitz
Jochen Zeitz (born on April 6, 1963 in Mannheim, Germany) is a German manager, CEO and Chairman of the Board of PUMA AG.
- Maggie Wilderotter
Maggie Wilderotter Maggie Wilderotter Maggie Wilderotter , 51, became Chairman and CEO of Citizens Communications on January 1, 2006. She joined the company on November 1, 2004 as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors.
- Howard Wolpe
Howard Wolpe , a former seven-term Member of Congress and former Presidential Special Envoy to Africa's Great Lakes Region, is also Director of the Center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity. For ten of his fourteen years in the Congress, Wolpe chaired the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
- Sallie L. Krawcheck
Ms. Krawcheck is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Citi Global Wealth Management. Until March 2007, Ms. Krawcheck served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy for Citigroup Inc. She is also a member of the Citi Management, Operating and Business Heads Committees, as well as the Citi Foundation Board and Citi Business Practices Committee. Ms. Krawcheck joined Citigroup in October 2002 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Smith Barney.
- Larry Kellner
Lawrence W. "Larry" Kellner (born 1959) has been CEO of Continental Airlines since December 2004. He previously served as a vice president, chief financial officer and chief operations officer for the airline. Kellner grew up in Sumter, South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1981 with a degree in accounting. He resides in Houston, Texas.
- Nick Scheele
Nick Scheele , a 38-year veteran of Ford Motor Company, retired in 2005 as President and member of the Board of Directors. His responsibilities and successes as the corporation's head make him uniquely qualified to advise any industry on the pitfalls and rewards of globalization. His work with Ford began in 1966, working in Purchasing, Supply and Procurement in Britain. Twenty years later, he was President of Ford, Mexico, where he directed manufacturing and marketing operations.
- 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.
- Ann McLaughlin Korologos
Ann McLaughlin Korologos has served as a member of Kellogg Company's Board of Directors since 1989. As a member of Kellogg Company's Board of Directors, Ms. Korologos serves on the Compensation Committee, the Nominating and Governance Committee, and the Social Responsibility Committee. She currently services as chairman of the RAND Board of Trustees. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
- Brenda C. Barnes
Brenda C. Barnes is the president, chairman and chief executive of Sara Lee, and previously was the first female CEO of Sara Lee. She has been listed in "Forbes" power rankings of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women since 2004. Barnes, a graduate of East Leyden High School, Augustana College and Loyola University, has moved Sara Lee's headquarters out of downtown Chicago to suburban Downers Grove.
- Bruce Chizen
Bruce Chizen Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Bruce Chizen ’s customer-focused vision has transformed Adobe into one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies in terms of revenue, global reach and breadth of products. Since his promotion to CEO in 2000, Chizen has more than doubled Adobe's revenue and turned a company known mainly for its popular design products into one of the most significant forces in the software industry today.
- Craig A. Dubow
Craig Dubow was elected Gannett's chairman effective July 1, 2006. He also continues as Gannett's president and CEO, positions he has held since July 15, 2005. He also became a member of the Board of Directors at that time. Dubow joined Gannett in 1981 in advertising sales for K*USA-TV in Denver. He held various positions at KVUE-TV in Austin, TX and was named president and general manager in 1990.
- Washington Sycip
Mr. SyCip was previously a member of the International Boards of AT&T Corp., United Technologies Corp., Caterpillar, Inc., Owens-Illinois, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, Pacific Dunlop Limited, Australia, and LucasVarity Corporation, USA. He was a member of the International Advisory Board of Chase Manhattan Bank and an Advisor to Arthur Andersen.
- Boris Divjak
Boris Divjak is an economist by profession. He has been affiliated with Transparency International since late 2000 as a founder and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Kaspar Villiger
Kaspar Villiger (pronounced Caspar Veeleeger) (born February 5, 1941) is a Swiss industrialist, politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council (1989-2003). He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on February 1, 1989. He is affiliated to the Free Democratic Party.
- Herbert A. Allen
Herbert A. Allen has been a director of The Coca-Cola Company since 1982. Mr. Allen is president and chief executive officer and a director of Allen & Company Incorporated, a privately held investment firm, and has held these positions for more than the past five years. Mr. Allen was a managing director of Allen & Company LLC, a privately held investment banking firm, from September 2002 to February 2003. He is a director of Convera Corporation.
- Alan V. Oppenheim
Alan V. Oppenheim is a Ford Professor of Engineering at the MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a principal investigator in the MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), at the Digital Signal Processing Group. He frequently performs magic tricks in class just for fun. His research interests are in the general area of signal processing and its applications.
- Dipak C. Jain
Dipak C. Jain is dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. A marketing expert trained in mathematics and statistics, Jain assumed leadership of the school in 2001, after serving for five years as the school's associate dean for academic affairs working with Dean Donald P. Jacobs. More information can be found at Dipak C. Jain's faculty Web page. Dean Jain was born on June 9, 1957 in a small town called Tezpur, Assam, a northeast state of India.
- Jacob A. Frenkel
Jacob A. Frenkel, born in 1943, is an Israeli-American economist and businessman. Frenkel studied economics and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and gained an M.A. and doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago. He was a faculty member of the university from 1973 to 1987, where he was appointed David Rockefeller Professor of International Economics. From 1987 till 1991, he served as Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund.
- Alexander Rich
Alexander Rich, MD (American; born "c." 1925) is a biologist and biophysicist. He is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rich earned both an A.B. ("magna cum laude") and an M.D. ("cum laude") from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling along with James Watson. He has over 600 publications to his name. Rich is the founder of Alkermes Inc.
- Claude Lajeunesse
Claude Lajeunesse (born 1941) is the current President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University. From 1995 until August 2005, he was President and Vice Chancellor of Ryerson University. He received his PhD in 1969, and his Master of Science degree in 1967 in Nuclear Engineering. Prior to his appointment as President of Ryerson University, he was CEO of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.
- R. Eden Martin
R. Eden Martin is an American lawyer. Martin was a partner at the law firm Sidley Austin LLP from 1975 to 2004. Martin has served as President of The Commercial Club of Chicago since 1999. He is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Nicor Inc., a Life Trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University.
- Patrick T. Harker
Patrick T. Harker is the President of the University of Delaware. On December 1, 2006, it was announced that Harker had been elected as the 26th President of the University of Delaware and would take office on July 1, 2007. Howard E. Cosgrove, chairman of the university's Board of Trustees, said, "Patrick T. Harker has an excellent combination of experience and skills to lead the University of Delaware forward." Previously, …
- Jerry Reinsdorf
Jerry Reinsdorf assumed the position of Chairman of the Chicago Bulls on March 13, 1985, when he led the group that purchased controlling interest in the franchise. Reinsdorf is also the Chairman of the 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox ...
- Paul Vixie
Paul Vixie is the author of several RFCs and well known UNIX system programs, among them SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. While he was employed by DEC, in 1988 he started working on the popular internet domain name server BIND, of which he was the primary author and architect, until release 8. After he left DEC, in 1994 he founded Internet Software Consortium (ISC) together with Rick Adams and Carl Malamud to support BIND and other software for the Internet.
- Max Levchin
Max Levchin (b. 1975) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former Chief technology officer of PayPal. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, …
- Tom Mendoza
Tom Mendoza joined Network Appliance (NetApp) in 1994 and has served as its president since 2000. He has more than 31 years as a high-technology executive and has served in an advisory capacity on the board of directors of several emerging technology companies. He has a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Executive Business Program.
- Tsutomu Tomita
Tsutomu Tomita is the chairman of Toyota Motorsport GmbH and team principal of Toyota F1, the Formula One racing branch of Toyota. Born and raised in Japan, Tomita first joined Toyota in 1969 as an engine development engineer. He continually worked his way up the corporate ladder, becoming the executive in charge of all Toyota racing engines by 1987. In 1996, he became a member of the board of directors, responsible for all of Toyota's international motorsport activities.
- John P. Surma
Mr. John P. Surma is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United States Steel Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania--the largest integrated steel producer in the United States. He graduated from Penn State in 1976 with a bachelor of science degree in accounting. Mr. Surma joined Price Waterhouse LLP in 1976, and in 1981 he served in the Manchester, England, office of the Price Waterhouse United Kingdom firm. In 1987, he was admitted to the partnership.