- Bernard Marcus
Bernard Marcus is a co-founder of Home Depot and philanthropist. He was born to Jewish-Russian immigrant parents in Newark, New Jersey. He grew up in a tenement and wanted to become a doctor. He couldn’t afford the tuition, so he worked for his father as a cabinet maker through Rutgers University to earn a pharmacy degree. Later, he worked at a drugstore as a pharmacist but became more interested in the business and retailing part of the business.
- Brian France
Brian France (born August 2, 1962) is the CEO and chairman of NASCAR, taking over the position from his father, Bill France, Jr., in 2003. He had previously managed NASCAR's marketing department and touring divisions and was involved in the creation of the Craftsman Truck Series. France is also the head of Brandsense, a marketing company whose clients include Tony Stewart, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and Britney Spears.
- Joseph Hardy
Joseph A. Hardy III is the founder and CEO of the 84 Lumber Company. Joe Hardy was raised by middle class parents in the jewelry business, but the experiences of the Great Depression taught him the value of hard work. To support himself in college, he sold fresh fruit door to door. After Hardy graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in industrial engineering, he took the advice of a close friend and opened the Green Hills Lumber Company.
- August Busch III
August Anheuser Busch III (born June 6, 1937) is the great-grandson of Anheuser-Busch founder Adolphus Busch and was the company's Chairman until November 30, 2006. He is father of President and CEO August Busch IV. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Busch has served as Chairman since 1977 and was Chief Executive Officer from 1975 until June 2002. He served as President from 1974 until June 2002. He has been a Director of AT&T Inc. since October 1983.
- Robert Rowling
Robert Rowling is the founder of TRT Holdings, the holding company of Omni Hotels and Gold's Gym. "Forbes" magazine in 2006 lists him as the 45th wealthiest American. In 1972, Rowling began working for his father's Tana Oil and Gas. In 1989 Texaco acquired Tana from Rowling for $476 million; money that he used to form TRT Holdings.
- Safra A. Catz
Safra A. Catz (born 1961 in Holon, Israel) has been the Chief Financial Officer of Oracle Corporation since November 2005. She has also been a President of the company since January 2004 and a member of the company's Board of Directors since October 2001. She has been at Oracle Corporation since April 1999. Prior to joining Oracle, Catz was at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a global investment bank, …
- Theodore Olson
Theodore Bevry Olson (born September 11, 1940) was the 42nd United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004. Born in Chicago, Olson completed his undergraduate degree at the University of the Pacific. After earning his law degree from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, he worked as an associate and a partner in the Los Angeles, CA office of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
- Jeff Yass
Jeffrey S. Yass is an options trader, managing director and one of the five founders of the Philadelphia-based Susquehanna International Group. In 2001 he was named one of "76 Revolutionary Minds" by "Philadelphia" magazine and joined the Board of Directors of the Cato Institute.
- 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.
- Dean Buntrock
Dean L. Buntrock (born 1931) is the founder and former chairman and CEO of Waste Management, Inc. In 2002, he was indicted by the SEC, along with other officers of the company, on multiple counts of fraud relating to the company's financial practices.
- Craig Barrett
Craig R. Barrett (born August 29 1939) is the Chairman of the Board of the Intel Corporation since May 2005. Previously, he served as the President of Intel Corporation starting in 1997 and its Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2005. He successfully led the corporation through some of its worst times, including the burst of the "dot-com bubble" and a severe recession. He has been appointed as a member of the Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers.
- Stan O'Neal
E. Stanley "Stan" O'Neal is the present Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was a member of the board of directors of General Motors from 2001 through 2006.
- Howard Ahmanson Jr.
Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Jr (born 1950) is an heir of the Home Savings bank fortune built by his father, Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Sr. Ahmanson Jr. is a multi-millionaire philanthropist and financier of the causes of many conservative Christian cultural, religious and political organizations. He has been highly influential and generous with conservative Republicans and Evangelicals. Ahmanson has recently joined a PCA Presbyterian church.
- James Cayne
James E. Cayne (b. 1943) is an American businessman who has been the CEO of Bear Stearns since 1993.
- Bruce Chapman
Bruce K. Chapman is the director and founder of the Discovery Institute, an American conservative think tank, with links to the religious right. He was previously a journalist, a Republican Party politician and a diplomat.
- Edward B. Rust Jr.
Edward B. Rust Jr. is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, Illinois. He is also president and chief executive officer of State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, State Farm Life Insurance Company and other principal State Farm affiliates. A native of Illinois, Rust joined State Farm in 1975 at the Dallas, TX, regional office.
- Richard Devos
Richard DeVos, Sr., (born March 4, 1926, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) is a billionaire co-founder of Amway (restructured as Alticor in 2000). In 2006, "Forbes" magazine listed him as the 73rd wealthiest person in the United States with an estimate net worth of USD$ 3.5 billion. In 2007, Forbes ranked him as the 249th richest person in the world. DeVos is a heart transplant recipient and is the owner of pro basketball's Orlando Magic.
- Marilyn Ware
Marilyn Ware is the current U.S. ambassador to Finland. George W. Bush nominated her to this post on 27 October 2005. She is also the honorary chairman of American Water Works and president of Ware Family Offices. Ware has been closely involved in the U.S. water sector, and was Chairman of the Board of the American Water Works Company from 1988-2003. She was also the Honorary President of WaterAid America, an international charity for safe domestic water, …
- William Millar
William Millar is the current President of the American Public Transportation Association.
- Jay Feaster
Jay H. Feaster (born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is the general manager for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League. He won the Stanley Cup in 2004 as the GM of the Lightning.
- Miles D. White
Miles D. White is an American businessman. He is currently chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Abbott. He is also chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. White joined Abbott in 1984, serving there in management positions including senior vice president of diagnostic operations and executive vice president. He was elected to the board of directors in April 1998, to chief executive officer in January 1999, and to chairman of the board in April 1999.
- Raymond Gilmartin
Raymond Gilmartin is a current member of the board of directors at Microsoft and at General Mills. Former CEO of Merck & Co. His resignation from the US based pharmaceutical company followed the infamous Vioxx scandal.
- Alan Greenberg
Alan C. Greenberg is Chairman of the Executive Committee of The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. He served as Chairman of the Board of Bear Stearns from 1985 to 2001, and as its CEO from 1978 to 1993. Greenberg serves also as a director of Bear Stearns and a non-executive director and of Viacom.
- Michael Ledeen
Michael Ledeen (born August 1, 1941) is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor to "National Review". Ledeen was a founding member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and he served on the JINSA Board of Advisors. In 2003, the "Washington Post" alleged that he was consulted by Karl Rove, George W. Bush's closest advisor, as his main international affairs adviser.
- Peter O'Malley
Peter O'Malley (born in December 12, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York) is the former president (1970-1998) and owner (1979-1998) of the Los Angeles Dodgers of American Major League Baseball. He is the son of long-time Dodger owner Walter Francis O'Malley and Katherine Elizabeth "Kay" Hanson (1907-1979). Peter has a sister, Theresa "Terry" O'Malley Seidler(1933-), who was co-owner of the team.
- Leonard Leo
Leonard Leo (1965 -) is director of the Lawyers Division and executive vice president of the Federalist Society, and head of "Catholic Outreach" at the Republican National Committee. He also served as an advisor to President George W. Bush on judicial nominees. With James Taranto, he edited the book "Presidential Leadership." Leo is a graduate of Cornell University and Cornell Law School. He is also the uncle of David Joseph Maxham III, …
- Richard Carrion
Richard L. Carrion is the current President and CEO of Popular, Inc., a financial holdings corporation based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and parent company of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Banco Popular North America and E-Loan. Carrion was born to one of the richest families in Puerto Rico, his grandfather being one of the founders of Popular, Inc. (BPPR). After his father's death, Carrion became the leader of that banking empire.
- Gregory C. Farrington
Gregory C. Farrington was the 12th President of Lehigh University. Prior to his appointment in 1998, he served as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Farrington earned a B.S. in chemistry from Clarkson University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University in 1972. In 1984, he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
- Heather Higgins
Heather Richardson Higgins is an American businesswoman, political commentator, and non-profit sector executive who lives in New York City. Described as a political "diva" by some sources, Higgins has been associated with the full gamut of political and policy organizations. These range from non-profit, non-partisan organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations and her family's Randolph Foundation to media organizations with more pronounced political affinities, …
- John Hanford
John V. Hanford (born c. 1952) is the Ambassador at Large of the Office of International Religious Freedom of the US State Department which was created under the provisions of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. He was appointed to this position in May, 2005 by the President of the United States. A graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Hanford later worked as a foreign-affairs aide to Senator Richard Lugar.
- John M. Perzel
John Michael "Jay" Perzel (born January 7 1950) is a Republican politician who represents the 172nd Legislative District (Northeast Philadelphia) in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. From April 2003 to January 2007, he served as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House.
- Mel Blount
Melvin Cornell Blount (born April 10, 1948 in Vidalia, Georgia) was a five-time All Pro-Bowl with the Pittsburgh Steelers and is considered one of the greatest defensive backs to ever play in the NFL. His physical style of play made him one of the most feared defensive backs in the game at a time when the pass interference rule did not exist.
- Constantine Papadakis
Constantine Papadakis "(nickname Taki)" has been the President of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since 1995. During his tenure, Papadakis has leveraged the historic strengths of the University (co-operative education, …
- David Brandon
David A. Brandon is chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and manager of Domino's Pizza. He is also an outgoing regent of the University of Michigan. He graduated with a bachelor's degree and teaching certificate from the University of Michigan in 1974. While in Ann Arbor, he was the back-up quarterback of the university's football team, under the leadership of Bo Schembechler. Brandon also has honorary doctorate degrees from Schoolcraft College, …
- 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.
- Floyd Kvamme
Floyd Kvamme In spring of 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Floyd Kvamme , EE '59, to co-chair the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). It's the capper to a long, illustrious Silicon Valley career in semiconductors and venture capital that began at Berkeley's College of Engineering. The first member of his Norwegian immigrant family to go to university, Kvamme chose Berkeley on the advice of his high school English teacher.
- Dr Blane Milton Crandall MD
- Isaac Applbaum
Isaac Applbaum General Partner, Opus Capital Isaac Applbaum is a founding partner of Opus Capital where he is focusing his efforts on finding Israeli-based investments for the firm. Previously, Isaac was a Partner and Managing Director for Israel at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Isaac also brings strong operating experience to Opus Capital.
- Anton R. Valukas
Anton R. Valukas is the Chairman of Jenner & Block and is a member of the Firm�s Litigation Department. A former United States Attorney, Mr. Valukas specializes in major civil and white collar criminal litigation, representing individuals and leading corporations in contested proceedings throughout the nation. He is Chair of the Firm�s White Collar Criminal Defense and Counseling Practice. He also serves on the Firm�s Policy Committee.
- Andrew Shore
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