- Steve Ballmer
Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates . Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company. - Darrell Duffie
J. Darrell Duffie is a Canadian economist. He is the James I. Miller Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and has been on the finance faculty at Stanford since receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1984. He is considered by many to be one of the most influential financial economists of his era. He is the author of "Futures Markets, Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory and Credit Risk," with Kenneth Singleton. - Scott McNealy
Scott McNealy is chairman of the board of directors of Sun Microsystems, a company he co-founded in 1982 and chairman of Sun Federal Inc. McNealy grew Sun from a Silicon Valley start-up to a leading provider of network computing infrastructure with 37,900 employees worldwide, all while positioning the Company as the model of corporate integrity. A champion of Sun's 24-year old strategy to share, McNealy is always fighting for openness and choice: "Without choice, you have no innovation. - Roelof Botha
Roelof Botha is a venture capitalist. He began his career as an actuary. He was the CFO of PayPal. Now he works for Sequoia Capital and sat on the board of directors of YouTube before its acquisition by Google. Botha sits on the board of Insider Pages, Meebo, and Xoom. Botha graduated from Stanford Business School in 2000. He also attended the University of Cape Town where he did a BSc in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics. - Phil Knight
Philip H. Knight (born February 24, 1938) is the co-founder and former CEO of Nike, Inc. and the owner of Laika Entertainment House (formerly Will Vinton Studios). Knight is also known for his monetary support of the University of Oregon, where he received his bachelor's degree in accounting in 1959. Knight received his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1962. - Joel M. Podolny
Joel Podolny was dean of the Yale School of Management from July, 2005 to October, 2008. During his time as dean, he worked closely with Yale SOM faculty, staff, students, and alumni to pioneer an integrated MBA curriculum that sets a new, higher standard for management education. Prior to coming to Yale, Podolny was professor and director of research at Harvard Business School and professor of sociology in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. - Jeffrey Bewkes
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes (born 25 May 1952 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American media executive. He has served as CEO of Time Warner since January 1, 2008 and as President since December 2005. On January 1, 2009 he became Chairman of the Board in... - Susan Athey
Susan Athey, born on November, 1970 is an American economist. She is currently Professor of Economics at Harvard University and first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal. She was born in Boston and grew up in Rockville, Maryland. Susan Athey attended Duke University from the age of 16. As an undergraduate at Duke University, she completed three majors, in Economics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. She got her start in economics research as a sophomore, … - Jacqueline Novogratz
Prior to Acumen Fund, Jacqueline Novogratz founded and directed The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next Generation Leadership program at the Rockefeller Foundation. She also founded Duterimbere, a micro-finance institution in Rwanda. She began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank. Jacqueline is currently on the advisory boards of Stanford Graduate School of Business and Innovations Journal, published by MIT Press. - Jim Jorgensen
Future Inc - a sports agency (Jorgensen was a co-founder and the CEO). An early entry in female sports representation, Future Inc.’s clients included; Billie Jean, Chris Evert, Rosie Casals and golfers Sandra Palmer and Janie Blalock. It was eventually sold to Mark McCormack’s IMG (Hoffman 2006) King Enterprises – an international sports company. (Jorgensen was a co-founder and the CEO). - Bob Kagle
With over 20 years of venture capital investment experience, Bob is a veteran of the venture industry. Prior to Benchmark, Bob spent 12 years as a General Partner with Technology Venture Investors. Before TVI, Bob worked for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he focused on issues of corporate strategy in industries ranging from retail distribution to high technology manufacturing. - Richard Fairbank
Richard Fairbank founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1988, and is currently the Chairman and CEO. He also serves on the board of directors of MasterCard International, and is the Chairman of MasterCard International's U.S. Region Board of Directors. He is a member of the Stanford Business School Advisory Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, and the board of directors of the BITS Technology Forum. - Laurene Powell Jobs
Laurene Powell Jobs is Founder and President of the Board of College Track, an after-school program that prepares under resourced high school students for higher education. College Track continues to work with students through college graduation. Through its three centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, College Track provides a comprehensive program of academic support, leadership training, community service and extra-curricular involvement. - David M. Kreps
David M. Kreps is a game theory economist and professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is known for his analysis of dynamic choice models and non-cooperative game theory, particularly the idea of sequential equilibrium, which he developed with Stanford Business School colleague Robert B. Wilson. He earned his A.B. at Dartmouth College in 1972 and his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1975. Kreps won the John Bates Clark Medal in 1987. - Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough is the executive director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on managing technology and innovation. His new book, Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), articulates a new paradigm for organizing and managing R&D, in which companies must access external as well as internal technologies and take them to market through internal and external paths. - Howard Davies
Sir Howard Davies is Director of the London School of Economics. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Merton College, Oxford, and Stanford Graduate School of Business. His previous appointments have included Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Director General of the Confederation of British Industry, and Controller of the Audit Commission. - Adam Fawer
Adam Fawer is an American Novelist. Improbable, his first novel, has already been translated into five languages. Fawer holds undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. During his corporate career, Fawer worked for a variety of companies including Sony Music, J.P. Morgan, and most recently, About.com, where he was the chief operating officer. Fawer lives in New York with his partner and son. - John J. Donahoe
John J. Donahoe has been the President of the eBay Marketplace Business Unit since March 2005. In this role he is responsible for the flagship business, eBay Marketplace, including all North America and International operations. Prior to joining eBay, Donahoe headed Bain & Company as Worldwide Managing Director where he held the post from 2000 to 2005. - Scotty McLennan
The Reverend William L. McLennan, Jr. - better known as "Scotty McLennan" - was born on November 21, 1948. He is an ordained minister, lawyer, professor, published author, and administrator at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Since January 1, 2001, McLennan has been the Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University, where he oversees non-academic religious affairs on campus, is the minister of Stanford Memorial Church, … - Michael Zielenziger
Michael Zielenziger, born on June 28, 1955 in New York City, is an American journalist and author, and a visiting scholar at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He was the Tokyo-based bureau chief for Knight Ridder Newspapers for seven years, until May 2003. He has written extensively about social, economic, and political trends in Japan, Korea, China, and Southeast Asia. After September 11, 2001, Zielenziger also spent time in Pakistan, … - Kevin Lane Keller
Kevin Lane Keller is the E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is most notable for having authored "Strategic Brand Management" (Prentice Hall, 1998 & 2002), a widely-used text on brand management. He has published his research in the "Journal of Marketing", "Journal of Marketing Research", and "Journal of Consumer Research". - Alan Tripp
Alan Harvey Tripp (born 1 August1962) is an American entrepreneur who has successfully founded several private education companies, including SCORE! Educational Centers and InsideTrack. Tripp received a bachelors in Economics in 1985 and an MBA in 1989, both from Stanford University. Tripp was a management consultant with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and worked as an analyst for H&Q Technology Partners. - David Sze
David joined Greylock in 2000. His areas of focus include: consumer internet, wireless data, broadband, systems management, security, and technology-assisted marketing services. Before coming to Greylock, David was SVP of Product Strategy at Excite and then Excite@Home. As an early employee at Excite, David also held roles as GM of Excite.com and VP of Content and Programming for the Excite Network. Before Excite, he was in product marketing and development at Electronic Arts and Crystal . . . - Alex Michel
Alex Michel (born August 10, 1970) is an American businessman, producer, and television personality, best known for the role in "The Bachelor" during its premiere season. Alex was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, but has lived all over the U.S. He has a close knit family including his father, a corporate executive, his mother, a marriage and family therapist, and two younger sisters. In high school Alex was valedictorian, student body president, … - Howard H. Leach
Howard H. Leach was United States Ambassador to France from 2001 to 2005. Born in Salinas, California, on June 19, 1930, he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Yale University in 1952. Ambassador Leach studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1953 and at Stanford Advanced Management College in 1968. - John Patrick Crecine
John Patrick Crecine (Pat) (born August 22, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan) was an American educator. After receiving his early education in Lansing, Michigan, Michigan public schools, he earned a bachelor's degree in industrial management, and master's and doctoral degrees in industrial administration from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now called Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. - Robert Holleyman
Robert Holleyman is president and chief executive officer of the Business Software Alliance (BSA). Holleyman has headed the alliance since 1990, overseeing its operations in more than 85 countries, including offices in London, Singapore and Beijing. Holleyman has been active in leading the industry's efforts to expand into emerging markets including China and Eastern Europe. - Charles F. Shaw
Charles F. Shaw is an American businessman and former winery owner whose name is used for Charles Shaw wine, a brand of inexpensive table wines. Shaw graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business and was an investment banker. He became enamored with Beaujolais wine while living in Europe and moved to Napa Valley in 1974 to start a winery. In 1991 Shaw and his wife divorced and sold his original Charles Shaw label to Fred Franzia's Bronco Wine Company. - Peter Masucci
Peter Masucci , Vice President , joined New Mountain in August of 2004. He was previously associated with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. from 2000 to 2002. From 1997 to 2000 he was an analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance Departments of Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he evaluated and executed a number of strategic transactions. - David M. Didomenico
David M. DiDomenico , Managing Director , joined New Mountain Capital in 2005. He was previously associated with Lehman Brothers Neuberger Berman division from 2002 to 2005 where, in partnership with Andrew Wellington, he was responsible for managing over $3 billion of institutional and mutual fund assets. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. DiDomenico was a member of the acquisitions team at Starwood Capital Group where he focused on corporate and real estate transactions. - Ben Bernanke
Ben Bernanke , the Chairman of the Federal Reserve has studied both the '30's and the Japanese deflationary periods in depth. Fortunately he published papers and books on the subject along with other like minded economists, including GB Eggertsson. - Charles R. Schwab
Charles R. Schwab , 71, started his San Francisco-based firm in 1971 as a traditional brokerage company and in 1974 became a pioneer in the discount brokerage business. Mr. Schwab took an early lead, offering a combination of low prices with fast, efficient order executions, and soon became the nation's largest discount broker. Today, the company is one of the nation's leading financial services firms with approximately $1.2 trillion in client assets. - 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. - Janine Benyus
BIOMIMICRY is one of those rare hopeful notes in the modern chorus of environmental warnings. Janine offers a radical alternative to today's industrial model of progress - an elegant survival strategy drawn from a better understanding of those natural systems on which we are still totally dependent. Perhaps the best thing about this "quest for innovations inspired by nature" is that it is more than just a theory. It is already underway. - Kevin Efrusy
Kevin joined Accel in 2003. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP/SaaS pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as the first CEO of IronPlanet , an online marketplace for heavy equipment with current annual gross sales over $200M. - Robin Richards Donohoe
Robin Richards Donohoe Robin Richards Donohoe has over fourteen years of experience in international venture capital as the General Partner of Draper International and Draper Richards venture funds. She and her partner, Bill Draper, gave a three year grant to Room to Read during its critical start up phase through the Draper Richards Foundation. She has personally funded libraries, computer labs and girls scholarships in Nepal and India. - Julie Blunden
Julie Blunden Vice President, Public Policy and Corporate Communications Julie Blunden joined SunPower in April of 2005 and serves as vice president, public policy and corporate communications. She is responsible for public relations, financial relations, public policy, and market development. Prior to SunPower, Ms. Blunden was a consultant at KEMA-XENERGY on energy markets, renewable resources and policy to industry, utilities and state and federal governments. - Jeffrey Pfeffer
Dr. Pfeffer has served on the faculties of the business schools at the University of Illinois and the University of California at Berkeley. During the academic year 1981-1982 he was the Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. - Samuel Ulloa
Samuel Ulloa Samuel is currently completing his last year at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Once labeled an illegal alien in the U.S, Sam worked in the agricultural fields of California to become the first in his family to attend college. He became an American citizen. Later he graduated with high honors from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. - Raymond Debbane
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