- Charles Wang
Charles B. Wang (born August 19, 1944) is the co-founder of Computer Associates International, Inc. (now CA, Inc.) and owner of the New York Islanders ice hockey team. He was born in Shanghai, but moved to Queens, NY, when he was eight years old. He attended the elite Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Queens College in New York, and began working at Columbia University. - Clayton Bennett
Clayton "Clay" I. Bennett is a prominent billionare businessman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Clay is the husband of Louise Gaylord Bennett, the daughter of Oklahoma City media mogul Edward L. Gaylord. Bennett is the chairman of Dorchester Capital with its headquarters in downtown Oklahoma City and is also the chairman emeritus of the board of directors of the Oklahoma Heritage Association. Bennett is the chairman of the Professional Basketball Club LLC, … - George Steinbrenner
George Michael Steinbrenner III (born July 4, 1930 in Rocky River, Ohio), often known as "The Boss", is an American businessman and the principal owner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. His outspokenness and role in driving up player salaries have made him one of the sport's more controversial figures, … - Carl Icahn
Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American billionaire financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor. - 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. - Dan Duncan
Dan Duncan (1933-) is cofounder, chairman and majority shareholder of Enterprise Products Partners. According to Forbes magazine, as of 2007 Dan Duncan is the richest person in the city of Houston and the 3rd richest person in Texas, with a net worth of 8.2 billion dollars. - Jeffrey A. Citron
Jeffrey A. Citron is the chairman, chief strategist, and Interim CEO of Vonage, a voice-over-IP phone company. He was previously affiliated with Datek Securities, the fourth-largest online stock brokerage at the time of its $1 billion purchase by TD Ameritrade. Citron was the defendant in a civil enforcement action for securities fraud by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2003. - 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. - T. Boone Pickens Jr.
Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. (born May 22, 1928) is an American businessman who chairs the private equity firm BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover artist during the 1980s. With an estimated current net worth of around $2.5 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 131-richest person in America and ranked #369 in the World. - Mark Speese
Mark E. Speese (born 1958) is an American businessman who is currently the Chairman and CEO of Rent-A-Center. Speese has served on the Board of Directors since 1990. Until 1999, he was the president and chief operating officer of the company. For a period of about one year, until December 2000, Speese served as Vice Chairman of Rent-A-Center. Speese assumed his current position in October 2001 with the retirement of then-Chairman and CEO J. Ernest Talley. - 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. - 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. - Aubrey McClendon
Aubrey Kerr McClendon is the CEO, chairman, and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy and co-owner of the Seattle Supersonics and Seattle Storm basketball teams. McClendon is on the board of directors at Chesapeake, which, among others, includes prominent Oklahoma politicians Frank Keating and Don Nickles. He co-founded Chesapeake, one of the largest natural gas producers in the United States, along with the company's former president Tom L. Ward in 1989. - 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. - Leonard Lauder
Leonard Lauder was chief executive of Estée Lauder Companies until 1999; now he serves as chairman of the board. Today Estee Lauder dominates the prestige cosmetics industry with such brands as Estee Lauder, Clinique, M.A.C., Aveda, Bobbi Brown and Stila. Son William takes over as CEO in 2004. He is the son of Joseph and Estée Lauder, and the older brother of Ronald Lauder. Leonard Lauder has long been a major benefactor of the Whitney Museum of American Art, … - Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress, writer and producer, primarily in movies and television. The naturally red-headed Gilbert is best known as a child actor who starred as Charles Ingalls' (played by Michael Landon) middle daughter, Laura Ingalls, on the 1970s dramatic television series "Little House on the Prairie" (1974-1983). Not long after that she played Gerda in the "Faerie Tale Theatre" adaptation of "The Snow Queen". - Joel Giambra
Joel Giambra is the County Executive in Erie County, New York. The county seat is Buffalo, New York, where Giambra currently resides. - James S. Tisch
James S. Tisch (born January 2, 1953) has been the CEO of Loews Corporation since 1999. Tisch graduated from Cornell University and received his masters of business administration at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the son of Lawrence A. Tisch. - Vito Fossella
Vito John Fossella, Jr. (born March 9, 1965), is a Republican politician from the state of New York who has represented the state's 13th Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997. The district includes Staten Island and the Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst and Gravesend neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Fossella, A Staten Island native, was born to a family that included several politicians. - Gary Skoien
Gary Jackson Skoien is a Republican politician from Illinois. He served as Chairman of the Cook County, Illinois Republican Central Committee from 2004 to 2006. Skoien was elected Chairman of the Cook County Republican Central Committee following a contentious election that also included Republican State Central Committeeman Maureen Murphy and Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica. - Kevin Plank
Kevin A. Plank (born August 13, 1972 in Kensington, Maryland) is an American entrepreneur and businessperson. In 1996 he founded Under Armour, a sports apparel brand. A football player with the University of Maryland who eventually became special teams captain for the Terrapins, Plank thought up the idea because he "got tired of having to change out of the sweat-soaked T-shirts he wore under his jersey, … - 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. - 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. - Roe Conn
Roe B. Conn (born in Chicago on 6 June 1964) is an American radio talk show host who is the host of "The Roe Conn Show" which airs on WLS-AM 890 in Chicago, Illinois. "The Roe Conn Show" broadcasts live from 2 to 7 p.m. (Central Time), Monday through Friday. - Stephen Laffey
Stephen (Steve) Laffey was the mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island with his term ending in 2007. He was also an unsuccessful candidate in the 2006 Republican Senatorial primary election in September 2006. - Ira Rennert
Ira Rennert (born 1934 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Humvee and Renco Group tycoon, philanthropist, and supposed recluse whose various companies have been accused of wreaking environmental havoc in the U.S. and abroad. The publicity-shy, self-made billionaire riled New York's tony Hamptonites by building a beach front home in Sagaponack, New York considered one of the largest occupied residential compounds in America. - Marc Holtzman
Marc Holtzman was the first Secretary of Technology for the state of Colorado and served as the first and only President of the University of Denver. Holtzman currently resides in Carbondale, Colorado, with his wife Kristen Hubbell. At age 20, Holtzman was an Executive Director for the Ronald Reagan campaign for the state of Pennsylvania. Holtzman later went on to become a venture capitalist in the former Soviet Union, where he developed strong ties with Eastern Europe. - Kevin Norte
Groundbreaking as it was at the time, Kevin Norte was the City of West Hollywood's Rent Stabilization Commission's first openly gay chair. Then-City Council member Paul Koretz originally appointed Norte in 1992 as one of that city's Rent Stabilization Commissioners & Norte served as that commission's chair for two one-year terms. - John V. Faraci
John V. Faraci is the CEO of International Paper Co. He attended Denison University, received an MBA from the University of Michigan and is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. He is a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute. - Bennett S. Lebow
Bennett LeBow is the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Vector Group, the holding company for, among other companies, Liggett Group Inc., the sixth largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the United States. LeBow has been affiliated with the company since 1986. Under his leadership, Liggett Group broke ranks with the rest of the US tobacco industry, including Philip Morris, Brown and Williamson, RJR Nabisco, Loews and Lorillard, … - William Schreyer
In 1997, William Schreyer and his wife, Joan, endowed the Schreyer Honors College at Pennsylvania State University (from where he graduated, class of 1948) through a gift of $30 million. The honors college was created in 1980 as the University Scholars Program. On November 17, 2006, the Schreyers pledged an additional gift of $25 million to the Schreyer Honors College. Having contributed more than $58 million to Penn State, … - Joseph A. Unanue
Joseph A. Unanue (born March 14, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York) was the president of the family owned Goya Foods, which is the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States. - Ronald Rotunda
Ronald D. Rotunda (b. 1945) is a professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, and formerly the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He is also a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Professor Rotunda graduated from Harvard Law School. Professor Rotunda served as an advisor to Ken Starr during Starr's tenure as special prosecutor during the Clinton Administration. - Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway is a pollster and Republican political strategist. She has logged over 1,200 media appearances including on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and NBC as well as other cable and satellite networks. Born Kellyanne Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, she was raised in New Jersey and is a magna cum laude graduate of Trinity College, Washington, D.C., where she earned a B.A. in political science. - Michael Lynne
Michael Lynne is an American movie executive, co-founder of New Line Cinema. - 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, … - Subodh Karnik
Subodh Karnik is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ATA Airlines. Separately, he is also President and Chief Executive Officer Global Aero Logistics, Inc. On January 1, 2007, Karnik replaced the previous CEO, John G. Denison, who stepped down but is continuing on as ATA's Chairman of the Board of Directors. Subodh Karnik has been an officer of Global Aero Logistics, Inc. since June 2, 2005. - William Schachte
William L. "Bill" Schachte is a retired rear admiral of the United States Navy. Schachte's career culminated with his appointment as acting judge advocate general of the Navy from 1992 until his 1993 retirement. As a young Naval lieutenant, Schachte served a combat tour in the Vietnam War with Coastal Division 14 in 1968. Admiral Schachte's personal decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, … - Christine Radogno
Christine Radogno is a Republican politician in the United States, and a member of the Illinois Senate for the 41st District since 1997. In 2006, she was the Republican nominee for Illinois State Treasurer, losing to Democrat Alexi Giannoulias. Senator Radogno lives with her husband Nunzio in LaGrange. They have three daughters. She received both her Bachelor's and Master's degree in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago. - James Glimm
James Gilbert Glimm is an American mathematical physicist, and Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1959; his advisor was Richard Kadison. He has been noted for contributions to C*-algebras, quantum field theory, partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, scientific computing, the modeling of petroleum reservoirs, and geometric models for structural biology.
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