- Peter Pace
Peter Pace (b. November 5, 1945) is the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the first U.S. Marine appointed to be America's highest-ranking military officer. Appointed by George W. Bush, Pace succeeded United States Air Force Gen. Richard Myers on September 30, 2005. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced on June 8, 2007 that he would advise the President not to renominate Pace for a second term, so Pace is expected to step down on September 30, 2007.
- Ted Leonsis
Theodore "Ted" J. Leonsis is a pioneer of the Internet and new media, a sports team owner, and an active philanthropist. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957 to Greek immigrant parents, their goal was for their only son to become educated and go to a good college.. As one of the country's premiere business leaders, Leonsis is a Vice Chairman of AOL LLC. He is also the majority owner of Lincoln Holdings LLC, …
- 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.
- 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 .
- 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.
- James E. Cartwright
General James E. "Hoss" Cartwright (born September 22, 1949) is a United States Marine Corps general and the Commander, United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. On June 8, 2007 Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced his recommendation that Cartwright be nominated to become the next Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- Edmund Giambastiani
Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr. is an Admiral in the United States Navy. Admiral Giambastiani currently serves as the seventh Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this capacity, he is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Nation’s second highest ranking military officer. He will retire from the U.S. Navy in August 2007.
- Jeroen van der Veer
</gallery>;Jeroen van der Veer (born October 27, 1947 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is the CEO of oil company Royal Dutch Shell. Van der Veer joined Shell in 1971 where he worked in manufacturing and marketing in the Netherlands, Curaçao and the United Kingdom. Van der Veer graduated in 1971 from Delft University with a MSc in mechanical engineering and went on to earn a MSc in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- Jim Skinner
James "Slim Jim" A. Skinner is the Vice Chairman and Chief executive officer (CEO) of McDonald's. He was voted to the position in November, 2004. He has confessed (off the record, in a sports bar) to Fox News reporter Susan Yeo that he has never personally eaten a McDonald's. He is a vegan. "The Observer" wrote that Skinner has summoned reporters to Chicago, where McDonald's is headquartered, …
- 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.
- Harry Curtis Stonecipher
Harry Stonecipher, the man Wall Street loved and Boeing's unions came to loathe, stepped down today. Stonecipher The retiring vice chairman leaves behind a far different company than he joined in 1997. Then, Boeing's vaunted commercial airplane operations were in trouble. The company was hemorrhaging red ink.
- 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".
- 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.
- John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet, essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, political activist and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead.
- John Gallagher
Mr John Gallagher QC is a Barrister and Queen's Counsel whose practice involves civil and criminal law. He is currently a Director of the Board of the public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was first appointed to the ABC board for a five year term on 9 December 1999, and then reappointed for a three year term from 24 February 2005. He was appointed deputy chairman until his term expires on 23 February 2008.
- Bill France Jr.
William Clifton France (April 4 1933 - June 4 2007), nicknamed "Bill Jr." and "Little Bill," was an American motorsports executive who served from 1972 to 2000 as the head of NASCAR, the sanctioning body of United States-based stock car racing.
- Hugo Burge
Hugo Burge, a British businessman, has been the CEO of Cheapflights.(Born 6th April 1972) He was educated at Bedales School, followed by Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where he was a College Exhibitioner and graduated with a degree in Geography (MA). After University he qualified as a Company Secretary (ICSA) and spent 4 years in property investment. Hugo remains a director of a collection of UK property companies.
- Naina Lal Kidwai
Naina Lal Kidwai (born 1957) was the first Indian woman to graduate from the Harvard Business School. As of 2006, she is the Chief Executive Officer of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation India branches. "Fortune" magazine listed Kidwai among the World's Top 50 Corporate Women from 2000 to 2003. According to the "Economic Times", she is the first woman to head the operations of a foreign bank in India.
- James R. Houghton
James R. Houghton Chairman Emeritus Corning Incorporated Mr. Houghton joined Corning in 1962. He was elected a vice president of Corning and general manager of the Consumer Products Division in 1968, vice chairman in 1971, chairman of the executive committee and chief strategic officer in 1980 and chairman and chief executive officer in April 1983, retiring in April 1996. Mr. Houghton was the non-executive chairman of the Board of Corning from June 2001 to April 2002.
- Frank Wells
Frank Wells (March 4, 1932 - April 3, 1994), was an American entertainment businessman. Previously, Wells had worked for Warner Brothers as its Vice President of West Coast in 1969, then in 1973 as President, and in 1977 as Vice Chairman until he left the company in 1982. Disney shareholders Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold recruited Wells to become Disney's President and Chief Operating Officer (1984-1994), along with Michael Eisner as Chairman and CEO, …
- Donald Bren
Donald Leroy Bren (born 1932) is a US real estate mogul born in Los Angeles, and currently residing in Newport Beach, CA. He is the son of Hollywood producer Milton Bren and the stepson of actress Claire Trevor. He attended the University of Washington, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi, on a ski scholarship and tried out for the Olympic team in 1956. He holds a degree in business administration and economics. After college he served in the Marines.
- Robert M. Kimmitt
Mr. Kimmitt has had a long public service career, both at home and abroad. He served from 1991 to 1993 as American Ambassador to Germany and was awarded the U.S. Defense Department Distinguished Public Service Award as well as Germany's highest honor, the Order of Merit.
- Gary C. Kelly
Gary C. Kelly is the chief executive officer and chairman of Southwest Airlines . He first joined the company in 1986 as Controller . In 1989, Gary was promoted to Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance. In 1991, he was promoted to Executive Vice President. Gary spent 3 years in this role until he was promoted to his current position as CEO and vice chairman.
- Gerald L. Storch
Gerald L. Storch is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Toys "R" Us, Inc. Prior to joining Toys "R" Us, Storch was Vice Chairman of Target Corporation. He holds B.A., J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University.
- Lowell McAdam
Lowell C. McAdam is president and CEO of Verizon Wireless, the premier wireless provider with the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network. Prior to this position, McAdam was the executive vice president and chief operating officer for Verizon Wireless. Previously, McAdam was president and CEO of PrimeCo Personal Communications, a joint venture owned by Bell Atlantic and Vodafone AirTouch.
- Doug Bereuter
Mr. BEREUTER. If there are no amendments, the Chair will now entertain a motion that the resolution be reported favorably to the Full Committee.
- Anthony Ruys
Anthony Ruys is a former Chairman of the Executive Board of Heineken N.V. Ruys studied commercial law at the University of Utrecht. He started his career for Unilever where he worked as marketing director and chairman for various subsidiaries of Unilever in the Netherlands, Colombia and Italy. In September 1993, Mr. Ruys continued his career at the Heineken Group, where he became Executive Board Member, responsible a.o. for marketing.
- Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin was an African-American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier and principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. Rustin was openly gay and advocated on behalf of gay and lesbian causes in the latter part of his career.
- Mark Thornton
Mark Thornton is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Libertarian Studies . He has served as the editor of the Austrian Economics Newsletter and as a member of the graduate faculties of Auburn University and Columbus State University. He has also taught economics at Auburn University at Montgomery and Trinity University in Texas.
- Lois Juliber
Ms. Juliber joined Colgate from General Foods to become President of Colgate's Far East Division in 1988. In 1992, she was promoted to Chief Technology Officer of the Corporation, a position she held until her promotion to President - Colgate North America in 1994.
- Thomas R. Pickering
Ambassador Pickering is senior vice president for international relations for Boeing. He has had a long career spanning five decades as a U.S. diplomat, serving as under secretary of state for political affairs, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and as U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Jordan, and El Salvador. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- William J. McDonough
William J. McDonough served as the eighth president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for ten years--from July 19, 1993 to June 10, 2003. On June 11, 2003, he became the Chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Joseph Ralston
As Commander of the U.S. European Command from (2000-2003), General Ralston was the senior U.S. military officer and commander of all US forces in an area of responsibility that covers more than 21 million square miles and includes 93 nations. This territory extends from the North Cape of Norway, through the waters of the Baltic and Mediterranean seas, most of Europe, parts of the Middle East, to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. In this command, he faced and met many challenges.
- Edwin Feulner
Edwin Feulner is president of the Heritage Foundation. The Detroit News Copyright 2000 The Detroit News, Inc.
- Robert S. Kapito
Robert S. Kapito, a recognized industry leader in portfolio management, Kapito is Vice-Chairman and a founder of BlackRock, Inc., an investment management firm in New York, NY. Kapito received his BS in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously, he served as VP of First Boston Corporation's Mortgage Products Group. Kapito and his wife, the former Ellen Hershey, …
- Dennis Levinson
Dennis Levinson is the County Executive of Atlantic County , New Jersey . Levinson is currently serving his third term as County Executive, the highest elected office in Atlantic County. He took office in January 2000. Mr. Levinson served four terms as Freeholder-at-Large on Atlantic County's Board of Chosen Freeholders . He was first elected to the Board in 1986 and served as Vice Chairman in 1988, 1991 and 1992.
- James M. Jenness
Mr. Jenness joined the company in February 2005 as chairman of the board and chief executive officer and served as chief executive officer until December 31, 2006. Before this role, Mr. Jenness served as chief executive officer of Integrated Merchandising Systems, LLC, a market leader in outsource management for retail promotion and branded merchandising.
- Keith Sherin
Keith Sherin Senior Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer
- Otto Reich
The Bush administration's decision to nominate Otto Reich as assistant secretary of state for hemisphere affairs was regarded as one its more serious nomination blunders. Without putting too fine a point on it, Reich is viewed with disdain throughout much of the Americas.
- David Dein
David Dein is the former vice-chairman of Arsenal Football Club and former vice-chairman of the Football Association. He was also the chairman of the G-14 group of European football clubs between October 2006 and May 2007. In August 2007 he sold his shares in Arsenal F.C. to London-based business company Red & White.